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No matter what Apple does, people will be pissed off at something. Contrary to your point: A. They announced the cancellation a week later, you still have tim
by spectramax 8y ago
No matter what Apple does, people will be pissed off at something.
Contrary to your point:
A. They announced the cancellation a week later, you still have time to return your AirPods 2.
B. If they had gone with substandard product, then you will still complain, why didn't Apple cancel this product a long time ago!? Why did they release this piece of shit? We will have #AirPowerGate storm on Twitter, armchair specialists would start analyzing and delivering nasty analysis about Apple, Louis Rossman would make a new angry video, etc... Jeez guys.
See, Apple is in a no-win situation here. No matter what they do, people complain obsessively without understanding and putting yourself in their shoes.
- Nullabillity 8y agoThey could have cancelled the AP2 too, or at least announced this cancellation before that launch.
- dwighttk 8y agowhat? Why would they cancel the new AirPods?
- MBCook 8y agoWhy? The new AirPods still have Hey Siri and longer battery life on telephone calls. If you choose the Qi case they still charge wirelessly with other Qi chargers. It’s a solid spec bump to a product. Not a huge leap (which is there is no 2 in the name) but it’s not like they were ONLY going to work with the AirPower and had no other new features. No reason to cancel them.
- fwip 8y agoAnnounce cancellation of AirPower before selling a new product that would have used it, rather than after.
- sgustard 8y agoThey 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.
- spectramax 8y agoLiterally 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.
- vsl 8y agoApple 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.
- sofaofthedamned 8y agoSo why announce something you can't deliver?
- spectramax 8y agoApple is not the only company that announces products. Go to CES and you'll find hundreds of products. I am sure some of them never make it to production. Apple isn't the only one. While I agree that announcing a product and not delivering is a bad thing - shit happens, especially here where the engineering team busted balls for months to correct and issue and they couldn't resolve it. Sometimes, it is safety or regulatory failure. There are many reasons why a product can't make it to the market.
- sbuk 8y ago“You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.” Homer Simpson