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>Given how Bezos is willing to keep investing into Blue, someday that tomorrow will come. I hope Blue Origin succeeds, but Jeff’s investment and attention by n
by neartheplain 6y ago
>Given how Bezos is willing to keep investing into Blue, someday that tomorrow will come.
I hope Blue Origin succeeds, but Jeff’s investment and attention by no means guarantees success. The Fire Phone was a similarly enormous, exorbitantly-expensive, and secretive project that ultimately failed utterly. In that case, from my perspective as someone who was there, it was Bezos’s fixation on a particular solution (3D display, hand tracking) and refusal to consider or solicit contrary feedback that doomed the product. I worry about a similar outcome for Blue Origin. I hope I’m wrong.
- riffraff 6y agoI am not very well informed on these things, but is it comparable? The Fire Phone seems to have lived a pretty short life from launch to death (it was announced in 2014 and canceled in 2015). Even accounting for a few years of development, it seems a different scale from BO, which has been running for 20 years.