Submission + - Quick Tech Product Death More Humane? (nytimes.com) 1
HumanEmulator writes: The NY Times writes about how the Hollywood summer-movie business model is being applied to tech products: "Every release needs to be a blockbuster, and the only measure of success is the opening-weekend gross." New products are being pulled from shelves only weeks after a lackluster release. What if the TouchPad, the Microsoft Kin, or even Google Wave had had more time on the market? Is this blockbuster or bust model good thing?
Hardly new... (Score:2)
...when I was at a Fortune 500 high-tech firm that collapsed with startling speed in the 1990s, a frequent internal comment was that the company had been spoiled by some easy success and was in the habit of "giving up if it doesn't strike oil ten feet down."