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Not sure I follow. EDIT: So you think it speaks well of management to check up on a very important demo the last few days of a three months preparation? And m
by tjoff 8y ago
Not sure I follow.
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So you think it speaks well of management to check up on a very important demo the last few days of a three months preparation? And make huge changes? That should have been known long in advance. Instead of a smoke-and-mirrors demo they could have produced the real thing had Jobs communicated what he wanted from the beginning or half-way through.
- Fnoord 8y ago> So you think it speaks well of management to check up on a very important demo the last few days of a three months preparation? Nope, I think that's terrible, but that's an easy judgement to make. Who knows what a stressful mess management was in. My point is that its part of a facade (broadly called "reality distortion field"). I quoted 3 examples of clearly manipulative behaviour. Jobs could've made it easier for the engineer by checking out on Thursday. Why didn't he? Perhaps he just had high expectations and was very much disappointed? Has he ever published memoires where he went into examples like these?
- pking 8y agoThe demo for Steve was originally scheduled on a weekday the week previous, but kept getting rescheduled by Steve. Maybe it was a low priority for him and he thought he already knew what it was going to be. The preview only happened at all because we kept pushing for it, because we knew it had changed a lot and it would be very bad if he was seeing it for the first time live.