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And if they were an SV startup, they'd be receiving abundant praise for rapidly disrupting their market...
by danparsonson 3y ago
And if they were an SV startup, they'd be receiving abundant praise for rapidly disrupting their market...
- dotcoma 3y agoI am not so sure I want an airplane manufacturer to disrupt much of anything, especially if it involves cutting corners…
- jetbalsa 3y agoWell... SpaceX did it with rockets :V
- jacquesm 3y agoBut not while carrying passengers.
- AlgorithmicTime 3y ago[dead]
- dotcoma 3y agoI’m not going to board a rocket anytime soon :)
- throwawaaarrgh 3y agoThat's not a great comparison though. Commercial Airlines are known for safety and reliability, startups are known for being tire fires
- cqqxo4zV46cp 3y agoYeah I get that dunking on Boeing is the cool new thing but realistically the amount of caution they take with things almost certainly dwarves whatever most of us software gardeners do.
- FredPret 3y agoYeah but most software bugs aren’t life or death
- danparsonson 3y agoIndeed; it was intended as a joke about 'move fast and break things' culture but didn't pan out very well.
- lebean 3y agoThey really are building the airplane while it's flying.
- foofie 3y ago> And if they were an SV startup, they'd be receiving abundant praise for rapidly disrupting their market... I don't think that's a valid comparison. For a startup to disrupt a market, it should have some semblance of a win. Boeing is doing all this to avoid a major loss. Fighting to stay afloat is not the same as disrupting a market.
- danparsonson 3y agoYou're right - it was a lazy swipe at 'move fast and break things' culture but it didn't really land (pardon the pun).
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> if they were an SV startup, they'd be receiving abundant praise for rapidly disrupting their market If Boeing were developing radical new designs, I’d be with you. I might even be with them. But they’re not. The 737 Max 9 isn’t revolutionary in any capacity; the newness is practically all in the engines.