playing devil's advocate: if the author's manager had communicated the tech improvements correctcly ("we can now support any hardware"), maybe others teams know

playing devil's advocate: if the author's manager had communicated the tech improvements correctcly ("we can now support any hardware"), maybe others teams knowing about that would have moved the company in a different direction instead of "cancelling everything after firewire support". maybe they even got to that decision because one new input source took so much time in the first place.