(For people who read the comments first) the Osbourne Effect is when “a company pre-announces a future product that will obsolete the product line it’s selling

(For people who read the comments first) the Osbourne Effect is when “a company pre-announces a future product that will obsolete the product line it’s selling today” (thereby killing current sales and revenue), and the Inner OE is when it’s the employees that are demotivated by a similar announcement (which devalues their skillset and obseletes their current project, possibly leading to mass resignations).