8 months later sounds too short to have taken your idea, I'm guessing launching a product at Mars scale takes like 2 years. This is probably why the always say they cannot take ideas sent by external people... but on the other hand if this came from the CEO, probably could be fast tracked. So 80/20.
Do you remember who was the CEO?
replyOnly vaguely related, but the Mars family lived in neighboring River Forest and the factory was just north of me in Galewood (it is shutting down or already shut down and the property is planned for redevelopment, but the neighboring Metra station is named “Mars” which means that in Chicago you can take a commuter train to Mars). Sadly the Mars estate was apparently torn down to be replaced with a pair of bland McMansions.
replyThat’s a shame. Annhueser Busch turned one of their estates into a tourist trap. But you couldn’t pet the horses, which is literally the only reason an 11 year old would want to go near a brewery.
replySilly person, Mars is a city in PA, not a train station in Chi-town.
replyThe Moon is located just east of the Pittsburgh Airport.
It's packaging an existing product differently than a fully new product. Would still require either new machines or adapting existing machines for it.
replyI wonder if they have a policy about not accepting ideas / replying to people don't think their idea was stolen. I know TV shows have that policy so nobody can accuse them of plagiarizing their script idea.
replyAnd yet we get copycat movies all the time where clearly someone stole an elevator pitch or eavesdropped at a coffee shop and ran with it.
replyI sent steve jobs (sjobs@apple.com) an email saying that MacOS should have an unspoofable dialog for the system password authorization, same way they have for DRM videos etc. I also suggested the user could choose a secret phrase or image to be displayed in the dialog during system setup. Never heard back. This was when Steve was alive and in charge. And to this day anyone can spoof the system password dialog and steal the system password…
replyI emailed him in 7th grade asking if Pages could automate bibliographies. In hindsight, EasyBib was good enough.
reply>And to this day anyone can spoof the system password dialog and steal the system password
replyTouchID solves this in a sense.
Make it look like the TouchID isn't working and switch to password mode, boom. User password obtained
replyI always wonder about how easy that would be to spoof, because it seems like it'd be trivial.
reply...but obtaining that phrase may be nontrivial.
replySorry, I mean the current implementation seems trivial to spoof. I agree that doing something like your suggestion would make me feel much more comfortable about those logins.
replyYou mean what Vista introduced?
replyI pitched a "crit Doritos" idea to Pepsi just recently, but sadly they haven't implemented it :-)
replyI am sorry to say this, but there is a zero percent chance your letter influenced their product roadmap in an 8 month timeline.
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