alt Hacker NewsIn retrospect this is very similar to the Apple strategy: don’t invest heavily in doing something that isn’t already a core competency, position for novel uses of the tech but don’t build it per se. Apple probably would have benefitted in the last 4 quarters from hyping a custom model stack but it doesn’t seem that this strategy paid off to even close to 20% ROI while Apple got to hold their cash and organizational focus on their main thing
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kgwgk • yesterday at 6:38 PM
> don’t invest heavily in doing something that isn’t already a core competency
“Heavily” it’s a high bar at their scale. They spent over $10bn playing with cars.
But paying so little attention to it that it no longer is a core competency? As in, the people most representative of that competency leaving in droves? I doubt that was the plan.