{"id":59,"date":"2010-10-05T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2020-08-07T03:27:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T03:27:00","slug":"lgtablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/2010\/10\/05\/lgtablet\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Apple Doesn\u2019t Talk, Vol. 1: LG VaporTab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>News Flash: shipping is hard. Reuters\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE6930ZQ20101004\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a>\u00a0that LG\u2019s planned Android tablet will be later than expected because LG hasn\u2019t figured out how to build an Android tablet yet. Daring Fireball\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2010\/10\/04\/lg-tablet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">points out<\/a>\u00a0that this buys LG\u2019s VP of mobile marketing, Chang Ma, some more time to look silly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a shocker: the product you send out the door will probably come later, and with fewer features, than you intended. Time runs out. Unexpected complications arise. Bugs overwhelm the team. Your partner\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/phone-and-communications\/mobile-phones\/google-android-not-optimised-for-tablets--715550\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">invalidates your plans<\/a>. Something\u2019s got to give. You need to either take something out, or wait longer. But if you\u2019ve spent months blowing smoke, now\u00a0<em>everyone\u00a0<\/em>is waiting longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem with talking smack is you immediately put yourself on the clock. You almost guarantee public disappointment when the product does not ship as (or when) promised.&nbsp;If you just shut your mouth and let the product speak for itself\u2014once you actually&nbsp;<em>have<\/em>&nbsp;a product\u2014then there\u2019s a much better chance for people to be pleasantly surprised. Some companies understand this. Others clearly do not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Flash: shipping is hard. Reuters\u00a0reports\u00a0that LG\u2019s planned Android tablet will be later than expected because LG hasn\u2019t figured out how to build an Android tablet yet. Daring Fireball\u00a0points out\u00a0that this buys LG\u2019s VP of mobile marketing, Chang Ma, some more time to look silly. Here\u2019s a shocker: the product you send out the door [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleoutsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}