Brings up a good point—the importance of understanding the requirements/levers of other groups in order to get things done. In this case, pointing out the law.
Back when IE was ascendant and Mozilla was fading, another group in my corp developed a web app lousy with proprietary Microsoft code (ActiveX?). All it took for the CEO to shoot it down was me mentioning that a fifth of our customers wouldn’t be able to give us money. He would’ve done the same for the Mac users at 5%, given the option between a functional and a flashy site. (Seriously, with a Clippy-like assistant!)
Back when IE was ascendant and Mozilla was fading, another group in my corp developed a web app lousy with proprietary Microsoft code (ActiveX?). All it took for the CEO to shoot it down was me mentioning that a fifth of our customers wouldn’t be able to give us money. He would’ve done the same for the Mac users at 5%, given the option between a functional and a flashy site. (Seriously, with a Clippy-like assistant!)