I read and re-read this part six or seven times, and still couldn't reach a different conclusion:
"We are going to focus on completely reinventing experiences like creating or viewing a creative document and what it means to communicate socially or at home or in meetings at work. We are going to immerse people in deep entertainment experiences that let them have serious fun in ways so intense and delightful that they will blur the line between reality and fantasy. And as we develop these new experiences, we will also support our developers with the simplest ways to develop apps or cloud services and integrate with our products."
3 ideas. 3 core focus points. All completely off the mark IMO!
1. Instead of focusing on "completely reinventing experiences" for everyday and familiar things, I would think it might be better to make their systems and software actually work well? Fit the needs and naturally occurring expectations of users for a given task? What is this "reinvention" Ballmer keeps going on about year after year?
2. For both mental and social health, we need to NOT "blur the line between reality and fantasy" in gaming, etc. Seriously.
3. Once again the focus is on "integrating with their products", instead of simply creating a platform with the singular aim of helping developers make the best apps possible.
Seems like just more of Ballmer's typically misguided strategic focus. It's no wonder MS has all but tanked over the past decade under his stewardship...
OT to shift this a bit back to Apple, Horace Dediu has an interesting piece on Apple's org structure and splits it in to two categories, sustain and disrupt. He also suspects that the recent YSL CEO hire could be involved with brand management since with this org structure it doesn't make sense to give someone responsibility for a specific product line (e.g. wearables). I'm assuming brand falls under Schiller right now but maybe that will be slotted under this new hire? One thing I'm wondering is who has responsibility for applications like iWork, FCP, GarageBand, etc. Would that fall under Federighi or Schiller?
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And yet, that monkey boy achieved what you and I - and anyone around here - cannot even dream of.
That puts things in a bit different perspective, I'd say.
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Originally Posted by John.B
I'm at a loss to understand why Ballmer still has a job.
Because he has more money than every single one of us, combined.
"We are going to focus on completely reinventing experiences like creating or viewing a creative document and what it means to communicate socially or at home or in meetings at work. We are going to immerse people in deep entertainment experiences that let them have serious fun in ways so intense and delightful that they will blur the line between reality and fantasy. And as we develop these new experiences, we will also support our developers with the simplest ways to develop apps or cloud services and integrate with our products."
3 ideas. 3 core focus points. All completely off the mark IMO!
1. Instead of focusing on "completely reinventing experiences" for everyday and familiar things, I would think it might be better to make their systems and software actually work well? Fit the needs and naturally occurring expectations of users for a given task? What is this "reinvention" Ballmer keeps going on about year after year?
2. For both mental and social health, we need to NOT "blur the line between reality and fantasy" in gaming, etc. Seriously.
3. Once again the focus is on "integrating with their products", instead of simply creating a platform with the singular aim of helping developers make the best apps possible.
Seems like just more of Ballmer's typically misguided strategic focus. It's no wonder MS has all but tanked over the past decade under his stewardship...
http://www.asymco.com/2013/07/03/understanding-apples-organizational-structure/
ONE OS! ONE PLATFORM! ONE BALLMER!
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Originally Posted by Soloman
And I'd bet the farm that they fired the people best suited to have innovative ideas.
Or they left on their own.
Like when they closed down Pioneer Studios, their R&D group who came up with the outstanding Courier tablet project, and the manager left.
Dumb.