alt Hacker Newssucks: fly backburnering the app platform to build sprites.
> [...] Sprites, and focusing the company on [Sprites] and the problem they solve.
Then later
> first path [the thing I like/advocate/use] and [Sprites] ... We do one thing or the other. We don’t limp in on both. And if we fail, we fail with our full asses.
Hard to interpret that as anything but the thing I like being backburnered. Which is how it goes, but sucks.
Ah, that's fair! I just got the impression that other people on this thread were axiomatically deriving that we were killing Machines, rather than just shifting the roadmap towards Sprites.