It would be a tricky matter to decide whether the confidence preceded the success or vice versa but the jockey maintains it is no place for conservative tactics; bravery is required, together with the ability to shrug off those inevitable occasions when it ends badly.
But the kernel behind the idea reveals a key way in which Apple's R&D department works by responding to the ways people are actually using their devices in the real world; there's no question this would be convenient to have on those inevitable occasions when you'd actually need it.
As a famous adage of product design puts it, once you've built the car, your task is not simply to hope that you can prevent all accidents, but to design a better car crash – that is, to make those inevitable occasions on which things go wrong as unlikely as possible to cause fatal harm.
"Is this just one of the inevitable, normal occasions where an outsider wins, or a fatal blow to the idea of betting markets as being a useful forecasting tool?
Inevitable rustiness from Sturridge reprieved the visitors on those occasions.
Unlike the usual (and inevitable) demise of a promising software startup following a corporate acquisition — ahem Microsoft; on at least two occasions — Dropbox deserves credit for letting Hackpad live on.
It is sadly inevitable that on occasion innocent people will be prosecuted.
Gaps in information are therefore inevitable and on occasion there is considerable hesitancy in sharing data for one reason or another.
And, without adjustments, it is inevitable that on occasions bad things may happen to good companies," said Carr.
When Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni popped their clogs on July 30, there followed an inevitable dose of occasion-marking.
