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Incremental and Radical Improvements

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Incremental and Radical Improvement s    "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."   -  Winston Churchill   Sometimes innovations and improvements, regardless of the technology or industry, come in barely perceptible incremental steps, and other times they come in large, no way you could miss it, type radical leaps. Take the iPhone for example. It first came  out in June 2007. The first iPhone was a radical leap as compared to all other phones that existed at the time. It's been improved upon with a half dozen or so versions since 2007. Some of the newer versions have been incremental improvements and others more radical. I had one of the earlier versions of the iPhone and the improvement I would say I liked best was the ability to seamlessly sync the calendar and contacts on my phone with the calendar and the contacts on my computer and e-mail accounts. It may sound overly dramatic but it really changed my life. Regardless of where I entered