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As companies and products mature, they tend to wander from their core purpose. This may be feature creep, like iTunes, where a whole bunch of crap keeps getting added, or it might be a move away from a core mission because of reasons. Microsoft had one such moment this week where they made their key cloud service, OneDrive, substantially worse and reneged on a promise to consumers to boot. Activision Blizzard may have crept into one too many gaming segments by spending $6 billion on mobile developer King, and Amazon is certainly mission creeping by opening bookstores. Also, a Google employee is on a one man crusade against bad cables. With this lack of focus, it's a wonder anything ever gets done.
By Jimmy Principe, Sidney Foster and Trey ComstockAs companies and products mature, they tend to wander from their core purpose. This may be feature creep, like iTunes, where a whole bunch of crap keeps getting added, or it might be a move away from a core mission because of reasons. Microsoft had one such moment this week where they made their key cloud service, OneDrive, substantially worse and reneged on a promise to consumers to boot. Activision Blizzard may have crept into one too many gaming segments by spending $6 billion on mobile developer King, and Amazon is certainly mission creeping by opening bookstores. Also, a Google employee is on a one man crusade against bad cables. With this lack of focus, it's a wonder anything ever gets done.