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It's kind of tragic to see them be late to the party that they helped invent. The first apps for the iPhone were powered by Yahoo and the YUI library was pretty

• kyled 10y ago
  Yui was amazing. Really paved the way for "proper" front end dev.
• at-fates-hands 10y ago
  >> The talent was there, the leadership was not. This is spot on and completely staggering to think about. Yahoo was there with all of the other big search engines. They HAD to have seen the landscape changing, they HAD to know what their competitors were doing and starting to diversify their portfolios and offerings. And with all that information, what did they do? Nothing. they sat and watched their competition lap them time and time again, diversify, introduce new products, move to mobile, and create new technologies. I am completely mystified to how this could happen at such a huge company with some very smart people working there. It's as if this was some grand pump and dump scheme for a group of investors. It's like they wanted it to fail.
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• spriggan3 10y ago
  >> The talent was there, the leadership was not. Not according to Mayer who did a good job at making engineers want to leave Yahoo ...