stackyFACTSDecades before we all learned to hate turning our webcams on for morning meetings, AT&T incinerated a fortune learning that people actually prefer communicating in their underwear.
Decades before we all learned to hate turning our webcams on for morning meetings, AT&T incinerated a fortune learning that people actually prefer communicating in their underwear. The 1970 Picturephone Mod II was a monumental half-billion-dollar flop. The tech worked surprisingly well, but executives failed to realize that literally nobody wanted to pay a massive premium just to be visually perceived on a telephone call.
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