eli5 – how do tech companies release innovative products when development starts years in advance

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So I just read the news about Apple releasing their new AR/VR headset. It’s outta my price range but the features seem really cool and a lot of them I haven’t seen in other companies models (oculus etc) – however I also read that Apple has been developing this for 7+ years. We’ve seen several VR/AR headsets in the past 7 years, but none with this level of complexity. How do companies release products that are still innovative even though they’re conceived years earlier – and how do technological innovations mid-development process affect the process?

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They have supposedly been working on it for 7 years, but they didn’t have the technology 7 years ago to release it. When they say they have been working on it for 7 years they mean just that they have been trying to figure out how to make a successful product like this for 7 years and are just now able to due to the improvements in technology they and others have developed and the reduction in costs that have occurred.

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