This is one post that I wanted to write for long and was just postponing it for no reason. The inspiration for the same comes from a very minuscule irritating experience that I had while visiting a popular food joint, called ‘the barbeque nation’, it’s a typical high priced, niche kabab restaurant that serves the high fliers of Mumbai.

While visiting this place for the first, with a few friends on mine I had this urge to wash my hands clean and so decided use the wash room. Everything was perfect, the water, granite, the basin, but the fucking toilet soap dispenser. It looked like a miniature of an alien space vehicle or like an old Kelvinator stabilizer, whatever it was it no push button, no hole. Only thing that I could see was a green gel floating inside it. It was testing my patience, where to push, where to jab, tap to the gel out. I checked it for some time, bent down to see whether it automated, just like some taps, nothing worked and I was getting irritated with wet hand and no soap, therefore again I started tapping it, and this time a bit hard. It broke open and the gel was there on the side of the basin. I took some in my hand and washed it clean. Out!

The point that I’m trying to make is this, innovation that does no value addition to the original subject is nothing but cheap gimmick. Innovation that’s serves no purpose is actually not a step forward but a walk back. It’s irritating, complicated and completely unreasonable.

An innovation or an updation should be such that it solves a problem in a new way or at-least opens a new window of doing things in an interesting way. Cut to your home/office PC, a new windows operating system, richer with more heavy graphics, with at least a dozen performance options and what’s more dead slow. Hey but you know what it’s new. It’s so fucking plastic; just because good old Apple had more graphics shouldn’t be the reason why Window should make its icons jump.

I mean there is no reason why Microsoft should have fucked Windows so badly. Any window user who had been logged in for a decent time will say it without blinking that window 98 was the best of all. After which it was a downhill ride for windows.

Innovation no doubt is the cornerstone of growth, but what’s more important is that we make innovation in the right direction and not just for the Devils purpose. Because any innovation has a price attached to it and many times there is an absolute dichotomy between the real value and the market value.