Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (2016)

Re:Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (2016) by pessimizer on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @07:33PM (#46520955)

I think you're missing the point. The bakery would have to sell "less-than-fancy" sandwiches, but the sandwich shop could sell sandwiches with bread just as good as the bakery would use.

The bakery has to become a inferior sandwich shop to make sandwiches. The sandwich shop doesn't have to become a bakery to bake just the types of bread that they need to wrap their sandwiches.

The bakery would be better off selling dough to the sandwich shop.

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Re:Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (2016) by anshublog on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @09:01PM (#46521598)

this whole thread is hilarious and yet quite insightful.

Yes, the core idea behind Stack Fallacy was that if you are Apple you don't need to build a better CPU than Intel for all workloads - you just need M3 for your Mac.

So yes - just one type of bread. Like Subway. Or Panera.

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