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1. Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 15:47:36 UTC Baldur Bjarnason

   “Daring Fireball: DPReview Found a Buyer: Gear Patrol”

   There’s something fundamentally wrong with a management team where their first impulse is to shutter a valuable property and only shop it around when there’s outcry. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/20/dpreview-gear-patrol

   • Juan A. Zamarripa [E.] (jaze@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 15:47:35 UTC Juan A. Zamarripa [E.]

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     @baldur

     Sounds familiar...

     https://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2023/05/12

     #TomTheDancingBug #RubenBolling

   • Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 15:47:36 UTC Baldur Bjarnason

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     This news is symptomatic of the current state of tech. This decision was bonkers dumb.

     When you do mass layoffs either the exec who did the hiring or the exec doing the firing was incompetent. You don’t get mass layoffs in a profitable company without incompetence. Period.

     Random shuttering of profitable products, followed by frantic bargain sales: incompetence

     The tech industry is manifestly, obviously, inarguably run by incompetent executives but there isn’t a pundit anywhere calling it out