An oft-used strategy for ethically dubious products is to release something with a set of really poor features, and then improve it significantly within a short period of time.

1. The company will be applauded, and get good press, for quickly fixing something there was already a fix for at the time of release. (Nobody would have applauded the company for releasing something that worked well enough from the start.)

2. People will now more readily accept the updated version because it is "fixed". Chances are that the updated version, had it been released from the start, would have been criticised for being inferior. Now, it can be presented as the much improved version.

3. People will tend to forget about all the other ways the product is inferior, because the company has shown that they are making efforts to improve.

Releasing crap with a quick fix makes people lower their standards.

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