> This product was incredibly ambitious but the real miss was the market fit for what they were targeting.

Why is it that Apple gets 'participation' brownie points? When a movie flops, we dont go like 'The project was incredibly ambitious, but the market fit was bad' - We just say that 'it is a bad movie because nobody watched / liked it'.

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spacechild1 a day ago | parent [-]

Huh? Just because a movie flops at the box office doesn't necesssarily mean it's bad. There a plenty of examples of movie flops that later became cult classics.

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platevoltage 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

True. The Lexus LFA was a flop. It was also a quarter million dollars and an absolute engineering marvel.

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SlightlyLeftPad a day ago | parent | prev [-]

If I remember correctly, Office Space did particularly poorly at the box office but it’s totally a cult classic that I’m sure a good chunk of this community has watched.

	▲	bdangubic a day ago \| parent [-]
		Shawshank Redemption is much better example of this IMO... Absolute bomb at the BO that ended up being not just a classic but won like a millions Oscars as well