Namm 2013

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Originally Posted by namnibor

At least it's not called "VIRAL YELLOW SNOW"!!!! LOL!

LOL!... At least a yellow snow edition would show some creativity on their part instead of this black/white toggle.

Honestly the color changes would all make sense to me if it were a case of marketing people supplementing the technology innovation instead of supplanting it... as an example I alluded to before, if an automaker decides to make a limited edition of a car, it can be awesome if the car is historically important enough to be recognized several decades later. I don't think we will be able to buy replacement parts to keep our Ti Snows going in the year 2033, nor will we probably even care.

Admittedly without having actual insight into the company, as an engineer myself, I feel like Access is undergoing one of those moments I've seen in a few companies where the resource allocation has shifted from technical innovation to marketing. When that happens, the dead-end has been marked on the map and it is only a matter of time before the company goes belly up and blames things like the economy, current politicians, changing times and increasingly finicky consumers. The real problem, in my experience, is that some bean-counter in the back with the books decides hey marketing people cost $X per hour, while engineering people cost $X*2 per hour, and make a case to some CEO making $X^X per hour that the company can save money and increase sales by cutting engineering (thus innovation) and increasing advertising, thus kissing the arse of the CEO and making him feel more entitled to his already inequitable salary. The pattern continues ad infinitum.