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I think this story is actually a pretty incredible one. Just logistically it's a very interesting story that they were able to keep their collective corporate mouth shut--and even though it seems they're gearing up to milk the marketing effort now, that they did this without immediate payout in terms of brand marketing is surprising. And it's not like we're talking about a processed food brand with a million variants…
I don't remember new Pepsi, but new Coke had a huge backslash which lead to pulling the product off the market, reversing back to original formula. And if I remember correctly, this original Coke, dubbed Coca-Cola Classic saw much better sales than the same coke did before that. Making people wonder if the new coke fiasco wasn't intentional.
They didn't actually use the original formula. They used the opportunity to switch from Cane sugar to Corn Syrup. Since people didn't have the ability to taste the difference any more, no one noticed. This let them cut the cost of a major ingredient which then translated into profit. They gained a LOT more from the failed product.
(Not really. But that'd be a cool story too.)
Interesting idea, I guess a tech comparison would be revamping the server side code considerably but not making an announcement so users wouldn't think they had to be on the lookout for bugs / quirks that weren't originally present. If you test well you could 100% overhaul the back end with not a single end user the wiser. I suppose if you announced a "major overhaul" scheduled for some time then users may be wary or…
... and this is why people with severe allergies always always always read the ingredients list, even if the packaging has not changed. And always carry emergency medication.
Since I've discovered I've had celiac (the real deal) ~6 years ago, I've read a lot more ingredient labels than I used to, and I can vouch for the fact that food formulations change more than you'd expect without fanfare. For all that you might find "gluten free!" splattered all over a lot of things, I can tell you there have also been a lot of foods that have silently gone gluten-free over the years, along with tryi…
Good find!
But as have been indicated here http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35727244 , this may be counterproductive.
This strategy is how I imagine the "least painful" transition from init to systemd in a distro would go: someone would make the change, tell everyone to update, and then ask if anyone noticed.
But then you'd go to add / remove / change an init script and realize that the world had been completely changed underneath you.
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But then you'd go to add / remove / change an init script and realize that the world had been completely changed underneath you.
And your personalized init scripts, for applications not available in the repositories or for applications you want launched in a different way... would just break. I feel like on bootup you'd realize that your work was broken.
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I feel like that kind of comparison is a good candidate for a side project. Take picture, OCR, compare to old list, turn red if it's different
Would be a cool app project. "Scan" each label as you put it in your cart, and see if it rejects it or not