He was talking about Xerox, but I think this works very well with Hasbro/WotC as well.
As Steve Jobs said:
"If you were a product person at IBM or Xerox, so you make a better copier or computer. So what? When you have monopoly market share, the company's not any more successful.
So the people that can make the company more successful are sales and marketing people, and they end up running the companies. And the product people get driven out of the decision making forums, and the companies forget what it means to make great products. The product sensibility and the product genius that brought them to that monopolistic position gets rotted out by people running these companies that have no conception of a good product versus a bad product."
I don't really care for the Jobs worship, but he was a marketing dweeb who understood that product always comes first. He lost sight of that a few times but eventually he or someone near him was able to help right the ship.
He was talking about Xerox, but I think this works very well with Hasbro/WotC as well.
As Steve Jobs said:
"If you were a product person at IBM or Xerox, so you make a better copier or computer. So what? When you have monopoly market share, the company's not any more successful.
So the people that can make the company more successful are sales and marketing people, and they end up running the companies. And the product people get driven out of the decision making forums, and the companies forget what it means to make great products. The product sensibility and the product genius that brought them to that monopolistic position gets rotted out by people running these companies that have no conception of a good product versus a bad product."
Trying to understand this, well your logic anyway. Jobs was talking about how Xerox gave away the basis for all modern gui based OS for free, and IBM who gave away the copyright for the Personal Computer.
Steve Jobs in a twist copyrighted every little thing, and had Apple Sue anyone and everything that remotely looked anything like Apple stuff, even when they didn't design it, Xerox did.
If WotC followed Jobs, every time anyone even mentioned D&D, or anything related to it, they would sue.
People seem to be focused on Steve Jobs and not what he said about Xerox. Mainly:
"The product sensibility and the product genius that brought them to that monopolistic position gets rotted out by people running these companies that have no conception of a good product versus a bad product."
The main thing, I think, WotC and Hasbro should be worried about is letting their company rot from the inside. If not already.
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He was talking about Xerox, but I think this works very well with Hasbro/WotC as well.
As Steve Jobs said:
"If you were a product person at IBM or Xerox, so you make a better copier or computer. So what? When you have monopoly market share, the company's not any more successful.
So the people that can make the company more successful are sales and marketing people, and they end up running the companies. And the product people get driven out of the decision making forums, and the companies forget what it means to make great products. The product sensibility and the product genius that brought them to that monopolistic position gets rotted out by people running these companies that have no conception of a good product versus a bad product."
I don't really care for the Jobs worship, but he was a marketing dweeb who understood that product always comes first. He lost sight of that a few times but eventually he or someone near him was able to help right the ship.
So, in summary: capitalism sucks?
What's new?
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i got a crossbow dice roller for xmas. so that's what's new with me.
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Felt just as relevant to D&D as a random quote from a guy who lost control of his own tech company twice. :)
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Trying to understand this, well your logic anyway. Jobs was talking about how Xerox gave away the basis for all modern gui based OS for free, and IBM who gave away the copyright for the Personal Computer.
Steve Jobs in a twist copyrighted every little thing, and had Apple Sue anyone and everything that remotely looked anything like Apple stuff, even when they didn't design it, Xerox did.
If WotC followed Jobs, every time anyone even mentioned D&D, or anything related to it, they would sue.
People seem to be focused on Steve Jobs and not what he said about Xerox. Mainly:
The main thing, I think, WotC and Hasbro should be worried about is letting their company rot from the inside. If not already.