Alan Quatermain

The Tumblog of one Jim Dovey, iOS Software Chief Architect at Kobo in Toronto, Ontario.
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When we were first acquired, we were not taking long lunches and coffee breaks. We were committed to help this Pink project out and show our stuff. But when our best ideas were knocked down over and over and it began to dawn on us that we were not going to have any real affect on the product, we gave up. We began counting down to the 2 year point so we could get our retention bonuses and get out.

Mini-Microsoft: The KIN-fusing KIN-clusion to KIN.

A member of the team which produced the KIN, a former Danger employee, responding to accusations that his team’s conduct was the cause of the device’s failure.