Comment by kjkjadksj
2 years ago
Some other commenter, a former googler, a while back alluded to figuring out the big secret and being thrown for a tizzy at the resulting cognitive dissonance they realize they’ve been buying into. Its never about making a good product. Its about keeping up with the joneses in the eyes of tech investors. And just look at the movement on the stock today as a result of this probable lemon of a product: nothing else mattered except keeping up appearances. CEOs make historic careers optimizing companies for appearances over function like this.
I get that. But I don’t get why journalists who cover the industry and are expected to get it would call this “jaw dropping”. Maybe I am reading too much into it. It was likely added to increase the shock factor.