It’s been 2 weeks since Apple released iOS 4 (technically iOS 4.2.1) for iPad — almost 5 months after iOS 4 for iPhone and 7 months since iPad was first released with iOS 3.2 — and one of the more extreme criticisms hurtled its way is “why didn’t iPad ship with iOS 4 to begin with?!”
Short answer: because the iPad hardware was ready and iOS 4 wasn’t.
Long answer: keep reading after the break. (You’ve been warned).
Just like opportunity cost means if you only have $2 and you buy a soda, you can’t also spend that $2 on a chocolate bar. You have to choose. Likewise if Apple has finite resources and time and they spend them on feature A, they can’t also spend those same resources and time on feature B. They also have to choose.
Users, of course, want what we want and now, and this is nothing new […]
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