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It's interesting to me how these failing giants still have enough momentum to feed thousands of people, yet still consistently manage to get beaten by companies
by chmod775 6y ago
It's interesting to me how these failing giants still have enough momentum to feed thousands of people, yet still consistently manage to get beaten by companies a fraction of their size and no momentum at all.
It's a waste of human labour at industrial scale.
It also seems like software companies, and most tech companies in general, always fail together with their core product. Perhaps unsurprisingly, since the competitiveness of the market makes it very unlikely they'll strike gold a second time with another software product.
Momentum appears irrelevant and diversification pointless when all you know to do is software.
- Nasrudith 6y agoMomentum is what you are doing as opposed to what you are with software. It can give a bit of a boost but if you are drifting along or actively going backwards it will guarantee decline sooner rather than later. Of course the others decline with their core product as well but they have more mass making it harder to catch up and still drifting along. Boeing's 737 Max for instance. The electrical problems after they dumped their experienced engineers was a major red flag, more so than just dumping their experienced people to boost their apparent earnings. Not only did they make that dumb decision but the fact they had electrical fires was a hint their processes weren't adequately checking themselves in other areas too. If they had good processes but less experienced people and management that didn't have only vapor in their skulls they would have had delays instead of recalls and delays.