The search assistant of a common file browser started off as a penguin instead of a dog. When management found out they immediately demanded it be changed, which it was, within a day, on a Macintosh. When management found out a Mac was used they demanded it be done natively. This took weeks, and was a miserable failure (though the result was later reused as an optional office assistant based on Einstein). Eventually a real dog was trained, filmed and re-painted frame-by-frame. The huge delay in the launch of the product was blamed on security and interoperability issues.