Adaptation →
Not to belabor the point, but this fits in with the “adapting slowly” tenet. When the first iPhone was released, it wasn’t nearly as fast or as slick as the iPhone 3GS of today. When I first used my iPhone 3GS, my very first thought was “this is finally the iPhone as the iPhone was intended to be”. On iPhone v1, I couldn’t copy and paste, I couldn’t shoot video of my dog, I couldn’t play cool games or know what song was playing in a store. I couldn’t ask it where I was on a map. But that did not detract from its magic. From v1, I could have an email come in with a phone number in its body, I could tap that number and add it to a contact and that number would be in my computer after my next sync. I had never had a phone that could just simply do that before. The point being that yes, hardware will always improve. You will always be tempted to wait for the next iteration of hardware. If you’d rather wait until further iterations to experience the bulk of the magic that already exists in the current iteration, it’s your choice. It’s a lot of money to be putting down for something you’ll resent for its eventual obsolescence. But if Apple were to develop a product “to completion” before releasing it, holding off until it had all of the features that it thought that people wanted rather than just the ones that make it amazing, Apple would not be Apple, or Apple would never release products. That’s the point of evolution. It doesn’t happen in a vacuum, it necessitates, by design, deliberate response to the demands of the environment.
You should read Adam’s entire post.
