That’s what happens when you only make 20 of each color. Notice the exploit for faster delivery discovered yesterday in which BTO skus shipped faster than stock on hand? What more proof do you need that the fast sellout was caused by artificial stock constraints, and not demand or manufacturing capacity?
You’re not going to get pushback from me on that. Most of the time when I see people in their 40’s+ spending big money on a sound system would be just as well served by a $400 system in a box.
Actually not true. In my work, I have had to sign separate NDA's to assure I would not disclose I had signed an NDA.
I find it somewhat unprofessional to publicly disclose the time spent creating a product that just launched.
I saw people boasted about this a lot. How do you dictate text on your iPhone when you didn’t wear your Sony?
I have Bose QC35 and the cushion started to degrade less than 2 years making the seal and the fit degraded as well. Funnily it used to be very comfortable at first but now it hurts my right ear. Must be because of ear cushion degradation.
I am thinking that designers and marketing/sales work separately. Designers designed the headphones and then gave it to Sales/Marketing and told them "here, we have the headphones you wanted. Now, sell them." And, Marketing/Sales thought that $550 was a justified price point for this product. I doubt they even spent a second of their time looking at the competition when designing these headphones....
I have gotten three replies saying the same thing but I already replied to one. Figure I’ll reply again. Yes, these can happen but generally speaking this is not a common thing. When you look at how many former Apple employees have discussed things related to products they worked on, one can assume that Apple does not typically apply such a tactic. None of us have read the NDA so we can’t be sure what the restrictions are but I would conjecture that a lawyer wouldn’t get involved in something so trivial in this specific situation.
I'm not worry about ear cushion that I can replace but worry a bit on head strap because it can't be replaced.
Because the wireless is what it's supposed to be. I'm back using my NAD and suddenly very annoyed at the wire.
I know someone who in fact did sign the NDA for this and they said they would never have dreamed of saying/posting ANYTHING about the product or even mentioning the NDA or that they even signed one. They didn't say they weren't allowed to say anything about it but they did say that it is HIGHLY frowned upon to do something like this. Legal or not, it's a good way to burn bridges, not just at Apple but throughout Silicon Valley, I think.
I can agree with you there. It’s not a good tactic on this person’s part. And I can definitely see how it would run counter to culture and precedent. But once the genie is out of the bottle, it’s near impossible to put back.
