I think you have overlooked something really important, which is that for most of these items, a defective or flawed release is better than no release. Customers would rather have an iPhone with a miserable on-screen keyboard, poor battery life, and a zillion other flaws than the previous crop of Windows CE and BlackBerry devices that barely had any apps or functionality other than "email and garbage web browser in my pocket".

The only exception to this on the list is the Note phones with their fire issues, and the 737 Max, because those were legit safety problems (and as far as I can tell, the issue with the Note is in a totally different category of "how did we get here?" from the 737 Max). But for the most part, enough folks will take a flawed product that does something new over having nothing for there to be a real market for this.

J.Ja