“iPhone runs OS X. . .Not the crippled stuff that you find on most phones. This is real, desktop-class applications.” — Steve Jobs, iPhone launch, January 2007
"Many were already looking beyond Windows 7, thinking, and plotting as though delivering Windows 7 was some sort of no-brainer." This is a different facet of the issues that led to Longhorn. In this environment it is tempting to bring in a lot of presentations on ideas that aren't in the current product plan and have no developers assigned. Then it is a small step to start saying the ideas are committed. It takes a lot of discipline to resist this environment.
"Many were already looking beyond Windows 7, thinking, and plotting as though delivering Windows 7 was some sort of no-brainer." This is a different facet of the issues that led to Longhorn. In this environment it is tempting to bring in a lot of presentations on ideas that aren't in the current product plan and have no developers assigned. Then it is a small step to start saying the ideas are committed. It takes a lot of discipline to resist this environment.