{"id":11264,"date":"2012-02-27T00:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T07:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=11264"},"modified":"2015-11-28T07:02:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T14:02:56","slug":"newsletter-issue-639-creating-bad-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2012\/02\/newsletter-issue-639-creating-bad-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #639: Creating Bad Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the best laid plans result in failure. Despite pumping hundreds of millions into an action movie, it gets horrible ratings from both reviewers and the public and tanks at the box office. Retail products that seem to offer loads of innovation simply don&#8217;t survive for one reason or another.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s not forget that the first Macintosh wasn&#8217;t a very good seller. It was regarded, at the time, as too expensive, with no way to upgrade or add expansion cards. 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