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bijan sabet: When big companies kill internal products

bijan:

Most big companies kill internal projects and products.

Microsoft killed off Danger and Courier. Cisco killed Flip. HP isn’t doing anything with WebOS. RIM hasn’t dropped playbook but I’m guessing they should/will

And google seems to be doing a lot of this. In recent memory google has nuked…

This is exactly right.  The problem is not that companies kill these projects, though; it’s that they don’t have a plan for what to do with them if they survive in the first place.

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    gbattle nailz it.
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    gbattle sez: Bijan nails a great point here,...let’s add some teeth
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    This is exactly right. The problem is not that...projects, though;
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    companies (blockbuster, borders) even when...technology came out
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