Originally posted by gnarlin
View Post
As someone else said, they overestimated their importance - and this falls squarely on the CEO and the company's echo chambered leadership. Intel, and AMD in particular with Lisa Su at the helm, followed a different paradigm, popularized by Ballmer's immortal meme - 'developers, developers, developers, developers'... and followed the pulse of the Linux developers - GBM instead of EGLStreams. In this instance, it paid off dearly for both Intel and AMD, whereas NVidia remains a niche player relative to these 2 in the global GPU market. NVidia worshipped at the wrong altar, are hopefully hip to this and will correct this, 'real soon now'....
Similar thing happened with Canonical's (and Shuttleworth's) exaggerated sense of self importance - their success with Ubuntu, blinded them to the pulse of the Linux dev community, and instead of getting on board with Wayland, they reinvented it as "Mir"... Today, Ubuntu ships with Wayland by default and Mir is, resting in Mir, pun intended.
Success is a powerful (self) opiate. If one does not possess the (self) awareness that all success is fleeting, then they are bound to eventually lose touch with reality as it happens, on the ground, in the trenches, by those who are actually creating it ('developers developers developers').
A vision disconnected from current reality is also known as a pipe dream. Sometimes we hit the nail on the head, other times we miss. Not blaming anyone, just giving you a 20/20 on what's already happened.
Comment