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There has always been an element of “it will be alright on the night” attitude in most high tech industry. The idea being you rush out a product that’s not fully developed and let hype and inertia develop sales. Usually because the development money is exhausted. Once money is coming in development continues. There is also an element of a race, where the first to the market may secure sales even if the runners up have a superior product. A case of winner takes all.
even in non high tech but volume industry this FOMO has a major impact on decision making. It’s open knowledge now on how British Leyland (or its predecessor) had to keep cutting back to get a product out at a certain point in time regardless of how underdeveloped it might have been. If you want a single reference that encapsulates that attitude, read about Austin Allegro from its designer Harris Mann. The other more recent classic is Theranos, the company that wanted to make blood testing machine to detect over 50 conditions in minutes.
even in non high tech but volume industry this FOMO has a major impact on decision making. It’s open knowledge now on how British Leyland (or its predecessor) had to keep cutting back to get a product out at a certain point in time regardless of how underdeveloped it might have been. If you want a single reference that encapsulates that attitude, read about Austin Allegro from its designer Harris Mann. The other more recent classic is Theranos, the company that wanted to make blood testing machine to detect over 50 conditions in minutes.
