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Those were always there, and will always be there. The type of time frames people are getting anxious about now rarely work in the real world, though, where potential customers don’t just switch products/service provides unless they’re facing catastrophic outcomes if they don’t.
And AI is not making the difference there that people think. I worked on a product that entered the market as a newcomer, wooed plenty of customers, and even though everyone _wanted_ it, only customers _urgently_ looking for a solution got on board quick (within <6 months).
Ironically enough, the product pivoting to Agentic AI hard killed a ton of momentum and interest from customers, despite exciting investors.
Which absolutely isn’t the case. Even if someone would manage to overtake a market leader on tech merit alone, within 1-2 years, thanks to AI, markets don’t swing on such short notices. The fake urgency is absolutely psychotic.
There’s probably 100-250 that you might _really_ want.
Amazon can easily afford to pay each developer $1 million to port theirs, if they get serious about their own OS.
This is not a huge issue with smaller/trivial features, but can get really cumbersome with bigger ones, and even more so if the forks start diverging more. As for control, see Apple & getting a modern GPU API that works on mobile and desktop and can be iterated quickly.
For a large number of industries Android makes more sense because they depend on certain development processes (security, hardware support, regulated environment certification, etc), but for multimedia consumption a lot of those are not needed.
Last, but not least, vanity can be a big part of such decisions, too. Engineers love to build stuff, even if it means reinventing the wheel for the Nth time.
But yeah, ideally one shouldn’t tie self worth to perishables.
And I might have a call with any other zoom user, too, potentially, maybe. So really they are doing me a service by using my content all over the place — who knows, it might benefit me at some point!
Business plan can be easily marked a “mistake out of sloppiness” if you don’t want to fire people.
Abuse is bad for the image and evidence collection takes ages (and hence is expensive).
Lying to the board works much better to get rid of people fast. I would bet you weren’t the first startup to do a bisserl of Zahlen frisieren.
Do people really think that companies like Apple et al (who have a huge number of people following them eager to rip into them at ever opportunity) could get away with a "marketing story" like that? Like, really, Apple just making all that up and _not one single person_ whistleblowing on it if it were a lie?
Maybe you should find someone with severe ADHD and try to convince them it’s not a problem at all, see how that goes.
She was pretty unhappy about that as well, incidentally.
You so don’t give a fuck that you replied straight away.
But at least you didn’t have to repeat how busy you are helping people, since the poster you so-don’t-care-about-that you-had-to-reply-to specifically called it out as noble, amirite?
Whether the post was ment ironic or not: golfclap
But, yeah, noone’s stopping you to make your FreeBSD version of the cheatsheet, what with the open source spirit and all… :P
But then, I am biased. :P