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Re:A lot of “idiotic” things have reasonable explanations (2... by TheOtherHobbes on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @06:18AM (#23321329)
No, it isn't. Anyone who has been involved in corporate decision making knows that different teams thinking for a long time is absolutely no guarantee of a successful outcome - or even of a barely functional one.

Companies make stupid mistakes all the time. When you're in the trenches there's a certain amount of group think, and issues that may be obvious to outsiders may be invisible and/or suppressed by internal politics.

Of course Internet comments may be naive and wrong for other reasons. But that's a different question.

Re:A lot of “idiotic” things have reasonable explanations (2... by thdrdt on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @06:34AM (#23321429)
> different teams thinking for a long time is absolutely no guarantee of a successful outcome

Of course it is no guarantee for success. But an outsider has absolutely no clue about what was discussed and what the politics were. So I think it is naive to make comments like "this is never going to work", or "removing the headphone jack will bring Apple down".