{"id":28751,"date":"2017-04-03T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T07:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=28751"},"modified":"2017-04-02T18:32:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T01:32:42","slug":"newsletter-issue-905-comparing-unreleased-apple-gear-with-the-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2017\/04\/newsletter-issue-905-comparing-unreleased-apple-gear-with-the-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #905: Comparing Unreleased Apple Gear with the Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It goes without saying that Apple rarely tells us much about a new product or service before it\u2019s available, or almost available. True, there are exceptions. The iPhone was demonstrated months before it went on sale, in part because Apple needed to get FCC approval, which threatened to reveal what was going on. Besides, since there was no existing Apple product to make obsolete \u2014 except, perhaps, the iPod \u2014 it was easy to spook the competition and send them scurrying for a response.<\/p>\n<p>Or an outright dismissal that Apple was onto anything.<\/p>\n<p>So we had all those complaints that Apple had no business building a product in a new category without prior experience. But how does that explain any company\u2019s first product, or even the iPod? Even when Apple\u2019s lack of experience wasn\u2019t cited, there were dire predictions that the iPhone would be a big fail. Indeed, as sales climbed, those predictions were repeated, because any Apple success must be a one-off.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! 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