Re:Apple Cancels AirPower Product
by sgustard on Friday March 29, 2019 @06:44PM
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They put themselves in that "no-win situation" by pre-announcing the product. If they were profiting by selling products based on future compatability with airpower, that could be fraud.
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Re:Apple Cancels AirPower Product
by spectramax on Friday March 29, 2019 @11:16PM
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Literally every major company does this. Tesla announces their cars years ahead of production. Thousands of products are announced at the CES - cameras, phones, laptops, etc.
Things go wrong sometimes after announcing a product.
> that could be fraud
No, it is certainly not.
Apple had reputation of not doing that. The last few years they do it all the time, are late all the time and can’t learn the lesson (see: last week’s announcements).
It’s not that common, except today’s Apple and, well, Tesla, to announce early and be very late delivering.