It was in one of those Netflix documentaries - I didn't realise it at the time but there was an 18 month period from 2003 to 2004 during which no new Harry Potter or Star Wars movies came out so sales of the licensed IP sets was down.
Is it episode 7 of "The Toys That Made Us" (May 2018)?
If so that'd make a lot of sense, same thing for Google where founders hated advertising but when it was either going under or getting rich by doing the 1 thing they didn't to go, they chose wealth.
The only Jira improvement that I can remember from the last 11 years is being able to drag and drop subtasks (maybe it was up and down arrows before that).
Everything else has been UI changes as far as I've seen.
I've been at two places with ancient physical hardware - in both cases there were people that just kept an eye on ebay and presumably payed whatever the asking price was for spare parts.
Interesting reading - I've occasionally seen some odd crashes in an iOS app that I'm partly responsible for. It's running some ancient version of New Relic that doesn't give stack traces but it does give line numbers and it's always on something that should never fail (decoding JSON that successfully decoded thousands of times per day).
I never dug too deeply but the app is still running on some out of support iPads so maybe it's random bit flips.
I got tripped by this once - a tester at work accidentally added a trailing . to a dev site URL and everything was broken... because the CORS code didn't account for a trailing . in the URL.
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