My HN timeline for today:
(morning) "Color to be shutting down" (afternoon) "Color IS NOT shutting down" (evening) "Color is acquired by Apple"
wtf just happened.
(morning) "Color to be shutting down" (afternoon) "Color IS NOT shutting down" (evening) "Color is acquired by Apple"
wtf just happened.
If you have ever seen the TV show "House" [1] its the part where each doctor makes a different diagnosis and Dr. House keeps trying to fit all the pieces together to get to the real issue.
Clearly Color is in a state of transition, I know of no company with an absent CEO, and no COO, that are stable. The tech "press" is in a feeding frenzy trying to be the first to 'diagnose' the cause and the eventual effect. Apparently its a solid bullet point in one's blogume' to say "I broke the <company> story."
[1] The TV series House as written up by Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_(TV_series)
I pay about as much attention to these stories as I do the stories that volley back and forth on peoples' blogs and the front page of HN.
Though I must say, three in one day was enough to troll me into both coming here and even commenting a smidgen of frustration/surprise.