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These companies don't believe in institutional knowledge that allows people to grow and get better and create more," Steward said. "What they believe now is the auteur system, which has always sort of existed within film and TV ... and this idea of ruthlessly efficient content factories, where what matters is the real estate and not the individual creative,"

Which I find interesting, because that’s definitely not how it works in the Software biz, or really in any company. Companies are definitely the sums of their parts, and even if you have an occasional “rockstar” or “10x” developer or auteur, even if such people actually do exist, they can’t possibly do all the work by themselves and rely upon a wide team of people to get the actual work done.

Never heard of any of those companies. Are they ad networks, per chance, or do they have other hustles?

There’s a sentiment in transport, “Why build a bridge? No one is swimming across the gap”, that seems quite appropriate here.

tham said:

ARM is/was a British company.  In fact, it started as a contest on show on BBC (or was it iTV) in the late 70s on how to make a low powered computer chip.

Acorn Computer were involved in bidding for a microcomputer design to be used on a BBC educational tv show in the early 80s, and their design was eventually picked: that became the BBC Microcomputer, which later sold to lot of UK schools, and also led to Acorn’s designing a RISC chip (the Acorn RISC Machine, of which v2 went into the Acorn Archimedes models).

Some other posts have correctly explained how ARM Ltd was later created, and how Apple’s investment in ARM came to be. Though Wikipedia is probably a better place to read the full story, assuming someone isn’t actively messing with it.

“They have a memory chip that sits on the screen that's programmed”