[bitpush]

> This product was incredibly ambitious but the real miss was the market fit for what they were targeting.

Why is it that Apple gets 'participation' brownie points? When a movie flops, we dont go like 'The project was incredibly ambitious, but the market fit was bad' - We just say that 'it is a bad movie because nobody watched / liked it'.

[spacechild1]

Huh? Just because a movie flops at the box office doesn't necesssarily mean it's bad. There a plenty of examples of movie flops that later became cult classics.

[platevoltage]

True. The Lexus LFA was a flop. It was also a quarter million dollars and an absolute engineering marvel.

[SlightlyLeftPad]

If I remember correctly, Office Space did particularly poorly at the box office but it’s totally a cult classic that I’m sure a good chunk of this community has watched.

[bdangubic]

Shawshank Redemption is much better example of this IMO... Absolute bomb at the BO that ended up being not just a classic but won like a millions Oscars as well