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So, they managed to destroy a competitor producing a tablet computer, only to fail to produce their promised product because of infighting? (See Jerry Kaplan's
by bensummers 17y ago
So, they managed to destroy a competitor producing a tablet computer, only to fail to produce their promised product because of infighting?
(See Jerry Kaplan's book, "Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure" for the depressing story.)
How exactly is this defensible behaviour?
- rbanffy 17y agoApparently, a lot of unethical behaviors feel defensible when one works at Microsoft. I think it may have something with the height where they place the bar.
- maurycy 17y agoIt's defensible on the personal level. People from other cubicles felt threatened, and they had to defend themselves. ;-)
- bensummers 17y agoI meant the behaviour of saying to the market "we're making something which will be far better than this shipping product" so loudly that no one bought the shipping product. The fact that their internal politics made it impossible to release something better in the first place is just adding insult to injury. Read the book, it's a good story.