Osborne effect

English

Etymology

In reference to the Osborne Computer Corporation, a company that took more than a year to make its next product available, and eventually went bankrupt in 1983.

Proper noun

the Osborne effect

  1. The phenomenon whereby the premature announcement of a new product leads customers to cancel or defer orders for the existing product, since it will soon become obsolete.
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