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I don't know about Apple, but you are wrong about Disney. They may have been meandering for a while but over the last decade (and change), current leadership h

I don't know about Apple, but you are wrong about Disney. They may have been meandering for a while but over the last decade (and change), current leadership has made three multi-billion dollar visionary acquisitions that turned the company around and brought it back to its roots as a story teller and creator/curator of American pop culture. Financial results followed the vision not the other way around (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/ https://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/).

hn_throwaway_99 8y ago
Walt Disney died in 1966. I'm assuming the parent poster meant the tougher times Disney faced between then and the start of the Disney Renaissance in the late 80s.
- ronilan 8y ago
  Parent said: “company slowly lost its way”. They didn’t. They’ve been down, they’ve been up (so did Apple btw), down and up again, but as of 2019 Disney is as strong as ever (though we are in the “endgame” of this cycle). The narrative of vision lost with founder’s death, just doesn’t work for Disney’s history.
  - wetpaws 8y ago
    Recently I gave up and decided not to watch anything coming from a Disney - no pixar, no starwars movies, nothing. There's simply no point to bother, Disney brand is virtually a guarantee mark of a soulless, meaningless, corporate product with only point of generating cash. Yes, Disney is still strong, but I believe I'm not the only person that got tired of it.
beaconstudios 8y ago
look at where Disney was going with his futurism and technological/sociological ideas as well though. And they may have done well recently (though I don't really think buying innovation from other companies counts as the company finding direction) but for the longest time they were known for being rent-seekers and just milking the old cartoons and fairytales for everything they could get.

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I don't know about Apple, but you are wrong about Disney. They may have been meandering for a while but over the last decade (and change), current leadership h

by ronilan 8y ago

hn_throwaway_99 8y ago
Walt Disney died in 1966. I'm assuming the parent poster meant the tougher times Disney faced between then and the start of the Disney Renaissance in the late 80s.
- ronilan 8y ago
  Parent said: “company slowly lost its way”. They didn’t. They’ve been down, they’ve been up (so did Apple btw), down and up again, but as of 2019 Disney is as strong as ever (though we are in the “endgame” of this cycle). The narrative of vision lost with founder’s death, just doesn’t work for Disney’s history.
  - wetpaws 8y ago
    Recently I gave up and decided not to watch anything coming from a Disney - no pixar, no starwars movies, nothing. There's simply no point to bother, Disney brand is virtually a guarantee mark of a soulless, meaningless, corporate product with only point of generating cash. Yes, Disney is still strong, but I believe I'm not the only person that got tired of it.
beaconstudios 8y ago
look at where Disney was going with his futurism and technological/sociological ideas as well though. And they may have done well recently (though I don't really think buying innovation from other companies counts as the company finding direction) but for the longest time they were known for being rent-seekers and just milking the old cartoons and fairytales for everything they could get.