You know what else is set to launch in Q1 2013?
Imagine if someone else had tried to launch an app store as its own entity, do we really think it would have exploded in the same way?
And it's already powering hundreds of SB Nation sports fan sites around the country, plus our gadget-oriented pseudo-competitors over at The Verge, forthcoming gaming site Polygon, and whatever else Vox decides to launch (I've heard there's one coming about cars, for example).
When you are focused on the one thing your social product is going to do better than everyone else, all you need to launch is your one thing and no more.
Oh, sure, technically it's actually running on another OS, but you increasingly never need to launch anything else.
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Motorola plans to launch a slew of new hardware on September 4, and of course Apple's new iPhone will debut September 6, which will probably suck most of the air out of the room for anyone else looking to launch new gear around that time.
Everyone else to Apple: If Apple launches smartphone-tethered smartglasses in late 2020, AR/VR 2.0 could have its "iPod moment," where a major new form factor introduces the starting point for a long-term mass consumer market.
How else to explain why he would launch it by insulting whole classes of people, including those usually seen as beyond criticism.
And if users hate it enough, someone else will launch a competing service that has different policies and thrive.
