In the end, companies who operate with a shared belief in realizing inclusion and equity in their products (as well as their processes and organizational makeup) end up making better stuff than companies who want to tell good stories about inclusion, without all the heavy lifting. The former create a culture that leads to higher-quality products. The latter make great ads.

Also, this post contained a reference to this intriguing exchange from an Apple shareholder meeting:

“When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind,” [Tim Cook] said, “I don’t consider the bloody ROI…If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock.”

In the end, companies who operate with a shared belief in realizing inclusion and equity in their products (as well as their processes and organizational makeup) end up making better stuff than companies who want to tell good stories about inclusion, without all the heavy lifting. The former create a culture that leads to higher-quality products. The latter make great ads

Also an intriguing reference to this story detailing an exchange from an Apple shareholder meeting:

“When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind,” [Tim Cook] said, “I don’t consider the bloody ROI.” …“If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock.”

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Jacobo Prisco has a piece in WIRED noting how some aircraft, including 747s, still rely on floppy disks for their software updates.

It is possible to upgrade from floppy disks to USB sticks, SD cards, or even wireless transfer, but doing so could cost thousands of dollars—and mean making a change to something that, while archaic, is known to work.

Clive Thompson, in his newsletter, leaves this commentary:

“While archaic, is known to work.” That final clause highlights why these floppy-disk-equipped 747s are a terrific object lesson in the challenges of embracing “cool new tech” in domains where error is super freaking bad. Pilots love flying older jets because they are well-known quantities; any bug or quirk was found out years ago. Do you really wanna gamble that the new data-transfer system for your 747 replicates data precisely as the old floppies did? I mean, it probably will. But, y’know, a 747 weighs 455 tons at takeoff; marginal errors matter.

Not a place for JavaScript I think.