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• reynard61 commented on Dents
  The difference between Steve Jobs and your Average Famous Movie Executive is that Jobs was *ALL* about the "Long Haul" -- making a product that could and would be used for years and develop an intense loyalty to that product's Brand Name. The Average Famous Movie Executive, on the other hand, is about planting some butts in theater seats for a few weeks (and in front of televisions when the DVD is released) and hoping that he can work that "magic" again and again before he fabegf uvf pnerre njnl va n pbpnvar ovatr be trgf neerfgrq sbe orvat pnhtug...
• reynard61 commented on Dents
  Okay, thanks for the info. My point still stands. Jobs was a long-range thinker. Your Average Famous Movie Executive usually can't think beyond this week's box office receipts -- except maybe to ask "How can we Sequelize this?"...
• reynard61 commented on Dents
  Well, I probably would have had a much different opinion of Movie Executives ten or fifteen years ago; but the junk that keeps getting sent to theaters these days has pretty much destroyed any faith that I had that Hollywood could still make a decent movie if given the right amount of money and the right directing and acting talent. Yeah, there are exceptions like "The Hurt Locker", "War Horse" and (maybe) "Red Tails"; but it seems that for every good-to-great movie that we get, we also have to endure three or four "Stuff-goes-BOOM!-for-no-real-reason" movies (or cookie-cutter Rom-Coms) that seem...
• Grey Hare commented on Dents
  The sad part is that the Newton was an example of what not to do for a PDA, and Palm (which had a lot of ex-Apple folks) took advantage of that and made a much better product, which survived quite well until the iPhone came along....
• kimonostereo commented on Dents
  If my memory serves me correctly, "Palm" via the Tandy Z (Zoomer) and Newton came out at roughly the same time. Both "failed" due to the limitations of the era which was mainly processor power. This may actually be an oxymoron in the sense that these were the first real PDA's with any real functionality that was sold to a mass market audience. These actually created an industry. There weren't "a lot of ex-Apple folks" at Palm during it's first iteration. Only Donna Dubinsky was former Apple. You may be thinking of Jon Rubinstein who left Apple to work at...