A soft reminder to always be looking for logical fallacies: This quote was smushed into an opinion piece about OpenGL:
Blizzard always releases Mac versions of their games simultaneously, and they're one of the most successful game companies in the world! If they're doing something in a different way from everyone else, then their way is probably right.
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Blizzard always releases Mac versions of their games simultaneously, and they're one of the most successful game companies in the world! If they're doing something in a different way from everyone else, then their way is probably right.
This isn't an example of a logical fallacy; it could be read that way if the conclusion was "their way must be right" or something like that. As it is, the heuristic is "X is successful and Y is part of X's business plan, so Y probably leads to success".
If you think their planning is no better than ch...
And happy new year to everyone.