Update
Alright, the first newsletter of the new year. I hope your NYE was a pretty good time and you are ready to kick it into gear for the new year. I know I am.
I'm getting ready to start getting my portfolio together. As some of you may know, I have been doing some of Meta's Coursera Courses. I recently finished the Advanced React course that is part of the Front End Developer Course. I learned a lot in that course and it was the first time I started to use a framework ever. Normally, I would just code in plain vanilla CSS and JavaScript. I fully enjoyed React and can't wait to keep learning more. They have a React specialization course that I may dive into next once I am done with the current path I am on.
This being said, I am getting near the end of my Front End Development path which leads me to possibly get ready to showcase my skills. This is going to be a complete revamp of my sites and I'm going to be building them out in React so keep a look out for that! I'm pretty excited to rebuild these sites because I will be able to use React and revamp them!
Are you guys working on anything and excited for the future?
The Expectation of Unreleased Products
Now with 2023 getting underway, the rumor mills are churning about different products that are being announced. People are starting to get excited about all the things that could be announced without any of the companies developing these products saying that they are developing them. Things bring up an interesting scenario for companies, how leaks affect their product releases.
See what happens is that when these rumors take shape and start to make their rounds, the public starts to assume that this is what the product is going to be. This sometimes is not a big deal when the leaks are correct and on point. It builds up hype for the product and everyone gets excited about the eventual release, but what happens when the leak isn't correct?
We saw this a couple of years ago with the Apple Series 7 release. It was reported at first that the watch would be coming out with a flat design (FPT Video Revealing Flat Design). It was reported by so many different people that it was going to be flat, that that is what the world expected. Then Apple got on stage and the majority of people were disappointed because it was not that. We will later find out over a year later that this watch existed and was the Apple Watch Ultra, but that doesn't change the fact that we were expecting it earlier and were slightly disappointed with what we go.
While this one example is an example of it going the wrong way, we have seen some companies lean into it and use it as a positive. Just last year, Google leaned hard into the leaks and pretty much confirmed their whole Pixel lineup months before they were announced because of the leaks. The thing with leaks is that if they are correct, they do help build the hype for the product. The public will continue to talk about it and get excited about the eventual announcement and release.
Who is to blame for this? The companies never made promises to us about it. They never made any commitment that these leaks were going to happen. We just wanted them.
Ultimately, it doesn't matter who is to blame. Whether it is right or wrong, this is something that these companies, as well as consumer expectations, end up having to navigate. It is an unfortunate part of running a tech company in this day and age. Journalists are going to continue to want to give us the news early because we as consumers love to hear about it. We as consumers though should start understanding though that the leaks aren't commitments from the companies. It is okay to get excited about what could be, but these leaks aren't Gospel.
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