Are Views of Companies Affecting Product Releases
Newsletter #44
Hey There! How has everyone been doing the last two weeks? I’ve been busy like always starting to prepare for the Fall Semester of classes. I’m teaching two classes this semester so I decided to prepare the courses early in the week. In addition to that, just work and do the normal content things that I enjoy doing! Nothing crazy has changed in the last couple of weeks, but I am getting ready to launch a couple of things in the next couple of months that I will be sure to update here when they are ready!
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Are Views of Companies Affecting Product Releases
So for this week, I would like to talk about how our views of an organization can affect the ways that we feel about some of the certain products that the organization reveals. Time and time again, companies are releasing similar products and the results of the releases differ based on the image of the organization. One example of this is that a couple of weeks ago, Microsoft announced a new feature called Recall. This feature would be coming in a newer version of Windows that will help users know what they have done in the past. This new feature will take screenshots of the user's screen every couple of seconds and store them in a database. This will allow the user to be able to ask Windows if it remembers the context of what they were doing at a later point so that they can “recall” the information that they may have forgotten. this was achieving this process by utilizing their AI platform, Copilot.
After this announcement, the community was pretty divided with a lot of people not trusting this feature (before we knew anything fully about how it worked). Some people found the use case for this, while others were against using it because they didn’t trust it. This is all fine and dandy and wouldn’t have made me think anything of it until the next thing that happened. Apple had its WWDC keynote and announced Apple Intelligence.
If you aren’t aware of what the WWDC keynote is, it is a keynote that Apple has every year that has them previewing all of the new software that is coming to all of their devices. One of the big things that they were showing is that they were incorporating their newly named AI platform, Apple Intelligence into pretty much every part of the iPhone, iPad, and macOS devices. They even talked about how they would go and reach out to OpenAI’s platform for some of the queries that they felt it was better at than them. Yes, this same OpenAI platform that the MS platform is built off.
The interesting part of this announcement is that the majority of people were impressed and astonished by this and not nervous like they were for MS. They seemed to be trusting this platform for what it was and not thinking anything else was going on in it. This is different than how MS had it and to me, this has everything to do with the company releasing the product itself.
From where I’m standing, it seems that we as customers create these perspectives and views of the companies that we purchase these devices from. These viewpoints seem to control the way that we think about each of their respective new releases and how we are going to view whatever they try to release. Some companies have a hard time breaking that view that we have of them. Others, like Apple, have this view that everyone just trusts everything they do so they can release any kind of product that they want. This just shows how much your image affects your company.
The real question is, should it? I try my best to give everything the benefit of the doubt, but even I fall for some of these things. For example, I am always hesitant to add another Google product to my life. The majority of the time, it has nothing to do with the product itself. The real reason is that Google seems to cancel and kill their products out of nowhere all the time. Because of that, I have this fear that I’m going to invest in something and it will become an issue. Is that fair though for the product itself? I’m not sure.
What do you think? Should we be looking at products for what they are or should we consider what we feel about the company as well?
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