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Has "rush to market" ever ended up successful? I can think of several instances where it wasn't (trying to meet Christmas deadline, or beat a competitor to mark
by mysterydip 4y ago
Has "rush to market" ever ended up successful? I can think of several instances where it wasn't (trying to meet Christmas deadline, or beat a competitor to market by x weeks).
- Cyberdog 4y agoAfter the Wii U floundered, Nintendo released the Switch mid-generation, which is generally not the right time to release a new console ID tire assuming for success. But we saw how it turned out.
- djmips 4y agoIndeed some rushes to market have ended up successful - Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder documents in detail one such case and there are many more. It's easy to dwell on the failures however. I think it's fair to say that many products that are on the market are rushed to market - some very successfully.
- vikingerik 4y agoJavascript was famously rushed out in ten days, and ended up eating the world.