There's another piece of the puzzle, which, in Apples case, may be attributed to the long and costly development process--that after this process, great product

There's another piece of the puzzle, which, in Apples case, may be attributed to the long and costly development process--that after this process, great products (which are not too late for the market) are released. If the hardware Kickstarter managed this, they probably wouldn't do too badly.