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  • I love hearing these kinds of retellings from industry insiders, I was deep in Tech and high up in the games industry, and I know the kinds of shenanigans that happen at the CEO and board level!

    But in my view the mobile game was over already in *2001-2003. That’s when Microsoft had everything wrapped up in their hot little hands, but decided that mobile computing was not the future, and that embedded Windows CE on every device is the way to go.

    Everything that happened after 2003 to 2005 basically sealed everything in stone. I think he’s vastly over playing whatever revolution was in his mind.










  • Ever sat in a boardroom? I have.

    Decisions are not made based on proper market/business analysis, they are made knee-jerk by overprivileged idiots.

    An example of this was when one of the companies I worked where I was in charge of all the online training.

    Then the big fat morons who invested came into the boardroom, instructed us to change all of our training to Flash clips… Because he also had a financial interest in Macromedia.

    We ended up losing massive business partners and investment firms (e: we made extremely industrial strength financial planning software). Because a huge part of it was being able to provide consistent, usable training material. The company was later purchased for a song and dance. Then shut down.