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thenewgreen · 4387 days ago · link · · parent · post: John Gruber: Surface: Between a Rock and a Hardware Place
If their impetus to unleash it in such a hasty manner was to be out ahead of Googles launch, then I think it was a poor decision.
Remember being a kid in class and having to give a speech? You either go first or last. First gets all the forgiveness, but in this case apple essentially owns the "first" category as people automatically will hold any of these products against theirs. Whoever goes last has the advantage of knowing the shortcomings of all of their competitors and addressing them. Plus they get the advantage of lingering in the consumers conscience. Nobody remembers the hastily prepared speech that was all over the map. At least not in a good way.