Apple Named World's Second Most Innovative Company

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Posted February 14, 2015 at 10:19pm by iClarified

Apple is the second most innovative company in the world, according Fast Company's 2015 rankings. Apple was #14 in the Fast Company's 2014 rankings, while Google placed first.

Fast Company attributes Apple's success in 2014 to its different software refinements that make its existing hardware more powerful. Both iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite brought many features to both developers and consumers.

It’s too early to judge the long-term impact of all these features, given that they depend on what other companies do with them. Still, they’re evidence that Tim Cook’s Apple is developing its own character—one deeply influenced by Steve Jobs, but not slavishly so. Jobs, after all, was fond of boasting that Apple was the only outfit in the tech industry that was solely responsible for "the whole widget"—hardware, software, and services, all integrated into a seamless experience. With iOS 8, Apple is loosening its control over future widgets in ways that its control-freak cofounder might have rejected. But they’re putting Apple even more boldly at the center of "the whole widget" of our technology-powered lives.

Fast Company named Warby Parker, the online eyeglasses website, the most innovative company in their 2015 rankings.

The top 10 rankings include:

1. Warby Parker
2. Apple
3. Alibaba
4. Google
5. Instagram
6. Color of Change
7. HBO
8. Virgin America
9. IndiGo
10. Slack

You can check out the full list here.

Apple Named World's Second Most Innovative Company

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TPC - February 15, 2015 at 4:17pm

lol. Noway. Google is number one and we are second ? So you mean to say all these copying and making products like Google and samsung is for nothing ? We don't give up. We are going file a suit. And take patent for being number one always . Let's see in court . Regards

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Mas22 - February 15, 2015 at 9:57am

Apple may be "innovative", that is, using other's ideas and repackaging them, but, "inventive" is another story. I think by now most people know that Apple is the number one retailer, and that without other's innovations, they would still be using Radio Shack as their supplier...oh, I forgot, Radioshack is now bankrupt.

gamerscul9870 - February 15, 2015 at 6:44pm

Apple only did very little of that, but whenever it comes to making something related to others work it sometimes goes beyond what they did. Look at Apple pay for example.

mhar - February 15, 2015 at 9:34am

What about Apple Acquired 24 Companies In The Last 18 Months 2014 kek apple buys innovation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Apple

Moe Mentum - February 15, 2015 at 4:29am

Google dropped quite a bit on the list. Probably because Google Glass sucked hard and the project got trashed. Google is still ranked as the number one company for privacy invasion, so all is not lost for Google.

gamerscul9870 - February 15, 2015 at 6:43pm

Google is still number one? Where? In fact, what new did they do for mobile marketing compared to Apple?

meeeee - February 16, 2015 at 9:54pm

learn how to read, he is being sarcastic, google is number 1 for being invading privacy

dk2013 - February 14, 2015 at 10:46pm

Such lists are meaningless. It's just somebody's opinion, who knows what the criteria was. And, more importantly, who cares.

marc767 - February 15, 2015 at 4:08am

Why because your company is not 1 or 2?

dk2013 - February 15, 2015 at 12:01pm

Nope, because Fast Company is a nothing publication with only 725,000 readers. Maybe it'll be 725,001 when you graduate from high school.

stevenlacross - February 14, 2015 at 10:25pm

You better calm down Barack and get back to running this country

gamerscul9870 - February 14, 2015 at 10:24pm

Where's your confidence now Samsung and HTC?

Jacob - February 14, 2015 at 10:33pm

Are you serious? Instagram created a thing many many many years ago, and has barely changed it, and you think that Instagram is better than HTC or Samsung. Samsung a company that almost makes every including the screens, chips, and some design aspects of the iPhone?

Moe Mentum - February 15, 2015 at 4:32am

Samsung is currently making almost everything for Apple except profits. Apple is the only tech company making plenty of that.

gamerscul9870 - February 15, 2015 at 6:42pm

1. Who said abouinstagram? 2. What about ideas Samsung made after iphone? 3. They make parts for Apple because they are one of the manufactures that make parts that Apple puts together themselves.