We need to invent "Touch Grass Driven Development" TGDD.
These products are clearly built by people who live in the SV bubble.
Nobody is going to use this pin in their day to day if you can't wear a seatbelt with it. Nobody is going to be able to easily use it outside. This is obvious to anyone who has been outdoors in the last decade.
They used to work at Apple so they feel that they can match Apple’s success but doing it the “Apple way”: internal iterations instead of early feedback ie the Build it and they will come strategy which is hard to get working outside of Apple. The only team I’m aware of that was able to do it successfully was Nest, but it later ended in disaster.
The difference is Apple has incredible momentum behind it pushing the Apple way. It took them decades to get to this point (and Steve Jobs, the real one).
These products are clearly built by people who live in the SV bubble.
Nobody is going to use this pin in their day to day if you can't wear a seatbelt with it. Nobody is going to be able to easily use it outside. This is obvious to anyone who has been outdoors in the last decade.