Verizon Fails Again, Shutters Attempted Zoom Alternative BlueJeans After Paying $400 Million For It::Pretty much every time Verizon wanders outside of its core competencies (operating telecom networks, lobbying to hamstring competition, undermining the most basic of regulatory oversight), the telco amusingly falls flat on its face. It’s quite honestly starting to get a little weird. Whether it’s the company’s Go90 video streaming platform, its video joint venture with RedBox, its news website Sugarstring (which…
I forget people have trouble following comments that are longer than a couple of sentences :(
No, their point is valid. You just did a bunch of mathematics while completely ignoring the larger issue of corporations and rich executives wasting money on frivolous endeavors.
Not only that, you literally suggested that dividing the BlueJeans money among the poor of the world would do them little benefit–as if Verizon is the only company perpetrating corporate greed–which they never suggested.
Using your own numbers, $3415 dollars would probably make a huge difference in most Verizon employees’ lives, but instead they spent that money on BlueJeans, a product that any reasonable person could have told you was doomed to fail.
Hope this comment wasn’t too long for you.
Thanks. I don’t always have the mental energy to explain or counter every statement. Love that biting last sentence. <3