Originally posted by Kunzite Roadmaps, IMO, are not meant to keep up to date with their current plans. Instead, they should give us confidence in the brand, in its continuous development; they should tell us the corresponding system is developing in a suitable direction.
They're meant to keep us happy and spending, not waiting for future products.
If that was true, then they would not be called 'roadmaps.' Instead, they would be called 'roadwishfulthinkingguides.'
The very definition of a road map is a plan. Otherwise it is in fact a lie perpetuated to keep us buying. Because, if they are not intent on producing the products shown on the map they are indeed lying to the public.
Only an
accurate plan gives customers confidence in a brand. Actually, if it was inaccurate information posed as accurate information that would eventually have the opposite effect -- give customers
doubt in a brand.
I mean they are announcing not-yet released products on a timeline, so the very nature of the roadmap IS to get us to wait for future products; If they didn't want us to wait for future products, they wouldn't be showing us future products.