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I’m convinced that any project named Titan will fail to ship (or fail immediately after shipping, as in the most famous instance). Apple’s car project was Titan
by paulgb 4y ago
I’m convinced that any project named Titan will fail to ship (or fail immediately after shipping, as in the most famous instance). Apple’s car project was Titan, Facebook’s gmail killer was Project Titan, I think Activision Blizard had a Titan. Google has this, but I don’t even think it’s their first Titan to not ship, I’m blanking on the other. (Edit: Google’s defunct internet drone project was Titan)
- cptcobalt 4y agooh no, I need to rename the side project repo I made and started committing to this weekend. (I'm really not kidding. Sadly.)
- zht 4y agoFacebook had a titan that definitely shipped
- paulgb 4y agoThe project shipped, but it did not live up to the “GMail killer” ambition and was shut down after a few years. https://techcrunch.com/2010/11/11/facebook-gmail-titan/ https://techcrunch.com/2010/11/11/facebook-gmail-titan/
- hammyhavoc 4y agoIf you zoom out to the big picture, most products, services and companies have a shelf-life and can be distilled down to the "but it didn't deliver" or "it never shipped and was vaporware" perspective.
- vlovich123 4y agoThe Titan chip though has been shipping for 3 consecutive phone models though and has not failed. Exception that proves the rule.
- Fatnino 4y agoThere was also that boat in 1912
- filoleg 4y agoLet's not even talk about all the projects named Phoenix. I am convinced that out of all extremely superficial things, there is nothing more hurtful to a project than naming it Phoenix.
- srgpqt 4y agoThe Elixir/Phoenix framework is quite good.