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Re:Palm's CEO emails Steve Jobs (2007) by mulmen on Sunday December 15, 2024 @06:12PM (#42426627)
> Good for Apple. It served the company and the brand well. No one can argue with the stock trajectory.

I will. Opportunity cost is the danger in focusing on the stock price beyond your existential financial needs.

What did silencing those engineers cost in terms of creativity and motivation? Yes Apple’s stock price went up, but at what cost? How many iPhone-level innovations did their corporate culture cost?

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Re:Palm's CEO emails Steve Jobs (2007) by musicale on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @02:52AM (#42439288)
This exactly. It was Jobs himself who said "Real artists sign their work" - as in the (literal) case of the original Mac, which included the signatures of the Mac team including Steve Jobs.

Losing that sort of energetic and creative culture has short term and long term costs which are hard to quantify.

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