{"id":27349,"date":"2016-12-05T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T07:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=27349"},"modified":"2016-12-04T18:55:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T01:55:29","slug":"newsletter-issue-888-apple-and-meeting-product-deadlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2016\/12\/newsletter-issue-888-apple-and-meeting-product-deadlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #888: Apple and Meeting Product Deadlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, I placed an order for a brand new car intended to showcase an innovative engine technology that promised to revolutionize the industry. It was the early 1970s, and I was anxious to acquire a Mazda RX-2, with the Wankel rotary engine. It was due to arrive in the northeast U.S. as a 1972 model. A dealer in the Philadelphia area advertised that it was coming real soon now. It did, months later than they originally promised; at least they didn&#8217;t request a deposit to hold one.<\/p>\n<p>Days after the first stocks appeared on the dealer&#8217;s lot, I purchased a yellow 1972 RX-2. As some of you might recall, for a vehicle with a state-of-the-art engine, it was really nondescript, not externally dissimilar from compact cars from Toyota and other makers of the time. But I was the first on the block with this &#8220;exotic&#8221; machine. It wasn&#8217;t the first time that I confronted missed deadlines when I wanted to buy something new.<\/p>\n<p>Segue to the 1990s, when I purchased a brand new PowerBook every year or two. In every single case. the one I wanted wouldn&#8217;t arrive until weeks after I placed an order. Apple wasn&#8217;t so good about meeting product deadlines then, and maybe things haven&#8217;t changed all that much.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! 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