People say that you never forget your first, regardless of what you are referring to. Well, this rule doesn't really apply to technology, since the smartphone industry is still evolving pretty quickly. Or does it?
Some people will say doing it best over doing it first, I mean Motorola made the first cell phone, but Nokia made it user friendly. Then of course iPhone killed Nokia. MySpace and Batchmates started social media in terms of friends keeping in touch, but we all know it was Facebook that took it to the next level. Belgium invented potato fries, but the dish is known the world over as French fries! A little-known fact, HTC manufactured the first Android phone but it's no secret that other Android smartphone companies are currently years ahead of it. Apple launched the first AI-based virtual assistant, Siri, in 2011. Google launched its AI-based virtual assistant, Google Assistant, in 2016. Between the two, the latter is by far more advanced, not without some controversy though.
Well, onto the other side of the coin-doing it first rather than doing it better. If you look at WhatsApp and Telegram, Telegram is by far the superior app but WhatsApp boasts of more users(2 billion) than Telegram's 700 million. The best won't happen unless there's the first. So if you value the thing that begins them all more, being the first is better. The key advantage is that people don't have expectations- expectations from you only arise at a later stage and not from the beginning
One can argue Both are relevant, for if it was not thought of first, how can anyone duplicate it? But ask yourself, do you want to be Antonio Meucci (invented the phone) or Steve Jobs (made the biggest innovations with phones)? See nearly no one knows who Antonio is, so as for me, personally "do it better"
