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Sorry is an emotion and this is a business. I don't care about how Snapchat "feels," I care about what they've done to fix the security issues and how successful that effort is.
its funny how when things go wrong in private companies, how quickly the general public thinks they can weigh in on how someone needs to stay with that entity. Imagine building something and losing your influence over it to the rest of the world.
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that turned down a $3b sale. staggering that this call was made.
For an application that... does what? Shares short-lived picture/video messages? Maybe I don't quite get Snapchat, but color me unimpressed.
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Where does media punditry get off on making absolutist calls for heads to "roll"? I mean, imaging if random non-experts had a journalist fired for every failed-prediction or embarrasingly wrong policy analysis penned in an op-ed? There would be no journalists left !
I think the author's point is a good one. If CEO is really so obtuse he should go. If he is being coached to act this way then his coach should be fired[1].
Pretty straight forward business journalism. It's not like the business journalist went on a long diatribe about API security. That would be out of place.
[1]Unless your argument is that in order to criticize a business leader's actions you must outline each of the myriad possible corrective steps between "Do Nothing" and "Terminate".
it was a massive and anticipated security flaw. the CEO's reaction was not to fix it, not to apologize, but to arrogantly lie about the severity of the threat.
less than a week after the CEO deemed the attack theoretical, it happened. the CEO's reaction was not to fix it, not to apologize, but to offer an opt-out after the damage had been done.
not sure why snapchat is getting a free pass on this, but it's horrifying.
Where does media punditry get off on making absolutist calls for heads to "roll"? I mean, imaging if random non-experts had a journalist fired for every failed-prediction or embarrasingly wrong policy analysis penned in an op-ed? There would be no journalists left !
Why should media punditry be bound to any requirement as to what they express, external to their boss / editor?
They don't get off anywhere in fact, they don't require your permission, as fortunately we still have a mostly intact free press and freedom of speech.
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For an application that... does what? Shares short-lived picture/video messages? Maybe I don't quite get Snapchat, but color me unimpressed.
It doesn't even do it good. It's easy to stalk your friends and see who they message the most and figure out when they do. It was just first.
This is what makes me despair about ever possibly being some sort of inventor/entrepreneur. While I was under the impression that cool new things are what people are after, what they're really interested in, apparently it's just... things like this.
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that turned down a $3b sale. staggering that this call was made.
For an application that... does what? Shares short-lived picture/video messages? Maybe I don't quite get Snapchat, but color me unimpressed.
What I dont understand is how they make money beside getting people to invest in them.