Devil’s Advocate – wherein John Gruber explores the Microsoft/Yahoo! thing even deeper, “all joking aside”.
In a broad sense, Yahoo reminds me a lot of Apple a decade ago. Good products, a large base of dedicated but restless users (many of them outright “fans”), and an employee base of talented engineers and product designers — but lousy, visionless, ineffective management. What Yahoo needs is a Steve Jobs — someone who will ruthlessly focus the company on products that are better, more popular, and more profitable.
Insanely great analogy.