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Eh, zero guarantees on that one. The Fire Phone was Jeff Bezos' personal baby, and we know how that went. Then there was the Apple G4 Cube with Steve Jobs, the
by NBJack 4mo ago
Eh, zero guarantees on that one.
The Fire Phone was Jeff Bezos' personal baby, and we know how that went. Then there was the Apple G4 Cube with Steve Jobs, the Model X' Falcon Wing doors and Elon, and lets not even talk about the Metaverse and Zuck.
- aleph_minus_one 4mo ago> The Fire Phone was Jeff Bezos' personal baby, and we know how that went. I'd rather guess that Jeff Bezos' opinion on what makes a good phone is/was different on the opinion of many potential buyers.
- AtlasBarfed 4mo agoAn Amazon phone with Amazon Video, playing Amazon Music, making phone calls throug the Amazon messenger, with an Amazon Browser that overlays ads to Amazon products, and has Amazon Voice Recognition ... blah blah blah I imagine when you are a billionaire from one company, every time you hear the name of the company you hear your name, so you can't really think about what Joe Schmoe wants in a phone independently of your ego. I guess this is what Steve Jobs was better at. SOME focus on the customer independent of his ego and Apple Apple Apple. I did say ... SOME.
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4mo agoActually, you've provided examples that prove the point. None of those were especially good (though everyone wanted the G4 Cube), and yet they made it to market anyway. Why? Because the CEO was behind it, breathing down their necks.
- NBJack 4mo agoPretty much every example is considered an abysmal failure that often costed the actual workers their careers while their CEO carried on. If you consider that outcome a worthwhile endeavor, I don't know what else to say.
- inemesitaffia 4mo agoHe's definitely not talking about worthy endeavour. He's talking about an endeavour reaching the market. I'm sure if Zuckerberg wants to spend $10B on Nuclear Fusion it will happen.
- DANmode 4mo agoIt’s fission, not fusion: https://www.esgdive.com/news/meta-inks-nuclear-deals-terrapower-oklo-vistra-support-ai-ambitions-rfp-6-6-gw/809231/ https://www.esgdive.com/news/meta-inks-nuclear-deals-terrapo... …and if they do all of this, it’ll be closer to $20B than 10!
- TeMPOraL 4mo agoIf all it took to get viable fusion power was a FAANG CEO with $10B to burn, I'd be first to petition for it to happen, and even throw whatever money I can spare onto that pyre.
- DANmode 3mo agoViable, of course, meaning safe? lol
- TeMPOraL 3mo agoNo, of course not. We can worry about making it safe after we have any form of it working first. (Also yes, I'm serious.)
- DANmode 3mo agoHave you done any deep reading on Fukushima? (Doesn’t seem like something to move fast and break things on - change my view?) Is this a “we can technology our way out of anything” stance?
- 3mo ago