Joe Rogan - Marques Brownlee: What People Don't Understand About Product Development

Now, do companies ever come to you and say, hey man, you're really good at reviewing these things. Are we fucking up here? Kinda, sort of. Red came to me before this existed in this form. It was in a prototype phase. And they were still pretty far along, but it was kind of like, should we do this? Like, should we put this here? Should we keep the headphone jack? I was giving them sort of small answers. Yeah, they kept the headphone jack. Little things like that. But for the most part, I think what a lot of people don't understand about product development is it happens many, many, many, many months before you ever see the product show up. So, I don't know if you remember all the leaks about the Pixel 3XL? All of them. Guarantee six months before the phone came out, it was done. Yeah. Like, they knew that that's what it was gonna look like. More than I think any phone that I can recall. Yeah, so like, that's the same as the iPhone. Like, they've been working on the, whatever the next iPhone is, they've been working on that iPhone. And it's probably gonna be like a couple more months and then they're like finalizing design and things like that. And so when you start to see phones come out like around like September and October and they start to all kind of resemble each other and then another one comes out and it looks the same, it's not like they saw the phone in early October and they were like, let's copy that. And then they made the next phone two weeks later. They've been working on this forever. So like, when the whole like, the whole notch thing was, you know, people were like, oh, I hope Google's trolling us and that's not really the notch and they're gonna have this phone with no notch. No, it's, they've been working on this for a long time. This is what they planned.