"cursory" implies fairly shallow / quick looking into it - given they have delivered, I'd say they met that benchmark. And the funding is obvious, through Kickstarter.
There's demand for high intensity lamps (and other hardware projects), a lot fail but some succeed, and lessons are learned. And not just by the people starting these projects, a big part of why these projects start in the first place is because the manufacturers make it accessible too.
No he is not. It makes no sense from a physics standpoint or an economic standpoint. And even if they were, it wouldn’t require whatever this acquisition is.
The corporate culture shifted steadily at Apple following Jobs’ death. It was obviously a turning point for the company and while the change wasn’t overnight, in the ten years that followed, a lot of people moved on, because (obviously) Apple will never be Apple under Jobs ever again.
Because many of them had been with the company a long time (and were thus old), they were replaced by mostly younger people who had less experience with what makes Apple Apple.
In my personal opinion, the soul went out of the company. It wasn’t immediately when Jobs died - to his credit it took more than a decade for the momentum of his vision to die.
Today, Apple is just another multinational, nickel and diming their customer base for services revenue, cooperating with the totalitarian surveillance state (not that they have much choice in the police states of the PRC and USA in which they operate/can’t fight city hall), shipping incrementially improved products (and incrementally worse software), and misleading their customers with clever marketing. It’s just business. It used to be something else entirely.
How you get funding for a hardware startup without cursory research into this is staggering.
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