THENEXTMACH

Re: Engadget's Microsoft Kin Inside Story

  • Ken: Whatchu think?
  • Jaime: Fuck that Lee guy. It's sad to watch. People's egos and emotions ruining such a cool organization.
  • Ken: It's whack that anyone with any integrity would release a project just to fufill a contract knowing it was flawed.
  • Jaime: Fundamentally dude. And not actually achieving the objectives?! It's gross and unethical. The bullshit is that these guys have fiduciary responsibilities to the "shareholders" and so they justify cannibalizing innovation because it deviates from profit for shareholders.
  • Ken: ...
  • Jaime: Every big company fails or transforms into something irrelevant...
  • Ken: But i dont think it does the shareholders any justice in the long term--even in 4-12 months...
  • Jaime: It doesn't -- they're just focused on very immediate returns...
  • Ken: ...Using 2 years of development to release a failed product and buying a company to do so = very poor resource allocations.
  • Jaime: That Lee guy should be fired and/or jailed.