There is a blog around somewhere mentioning MS's source control for Vista. Once you make a change, it gets committed to the next level for testing, which then gets merged with other similar project changes, then it goes up to the next level and gets merged with more changes at that level. It was taking up to 6 months to get a change put into the actual current build, which is not a small amount of time if you want to release an OS every couple of years.
Imagine, fix one small bug and wait 3 months for it to get to the build.
You'd have to think Apple would be a little more nimble than that, but it's still near impossible to fully control a project of that size.
DVD was quick to take off? I knew only one person to buy a player in the first 2 years, and probably 70% of people I know bought their DVD player in the last 3 years, more than 5 years after DVD's came out. That's not a brilliant benchmark to compare against.
Plus a lot of people I know got their first DVD player in the form of a PS2 or XBOX, which only came out years after DVD's were available. Before then DVD players were just too expensive and had too narrow a range at the video libary etc. Once PS2 and XBOX came out DVD took off (at least here in Australia).
Bluray only came out shortly before PS3 (at least in the US), and in Australia it's the cheapest bluray player available (or very close too). If they had only $Au1000 to $Au1500 stand alone bluray players for the first 3 years and then released the PS3 I would expect nearly nobody to own one in the first 3 years.
It's obvious releasing the PS3 so early can be the only reason why any bluray discs have been sold yet.
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There is a blog around somewhere mentioning MS's source control for Vista. Once you make a change, it gets committed to the next level for testing, which then gets merged with other similar project changes, then it goes up to the next level and gets merged with more changes at that level. It was taking up to 6 months to get a change put into the actual current build, which is not a small amount of time if you want to release an OS every couple of years. Imagine, fix one small bug and wait 3 months for it to get to the build. You'd have to think Apple would be a little more nimble than that, but it's still near impossible to fully control a project of that size.
DVD was quick to take off? I knew only one person to buy a player in the first 2 years, and probably 70% of people I know bought their DVD player in the last 3 years, more than 5 years after DVD's came out. That's not a brilliant benchmark to compare against. Plus a lot of people I know got their first DVD player in the form of a PS2 or XBOX, which only came out years after DVD's were available. Before then DVD players were just too expensive and had too narrow a range at the video libary etc. Once PS2 and XBOX came out DVD took off (at least here in Australia). Bluray only came out shortly before PS3 (at least in the US), and in Australia it's the cheapest bluray player available (or very close too). If they had only $Au1000 to $Au1500 stand alone bluray players for the first 3 years and then released the PS3 I would expect nearly nobody to own one in the first 3 years. It's obvious releasing the PS3 so early can be the only reason why any bluray discs have been sold yet.