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What are self-defeating prophecies?

Have you ever heard of self-denying or self-destroying prophecies? This is how a prediction that somehow cancels what it predicts is called. A self-defeating prophecy is contrary to self-fulfilling prophecy.

There are self-canceling/ self-defeating prophecies. When what we predicted does not come true - precisely because we predicted it.

For example, let's think about why so few companies announce future innovations in advance, talk about planned product improvements?

Not only because of the fear of espionage or to stir up interest. In fact, they seek to avoid the Osborne Effect, one example of a self-destroying prophecy.

Adam Osborne's company released the first successful portable microcomputer in 1981. A few months later, they were selling at 500 units per day, the portfolio of pre-orders exceeded 50,000. This was very cool, considering that the company expected to sell no more than ten thousand computers.

And then Osborne himself personally tells reporters that a new, much cooler computer model will be released soon. This information did not appear in the open media, but the corporate world is small. Wholesalers learned about the alleged new product and all pre-orders for the old model were canceled.

In order to save sales, the company has reduced prices for the first model by almost half - but who will buy something that is about to become obsolete? And in 1983, Osborne Computer Corporation went bankrupt without ever producing any cooler computer.

So we should take an example from the current manufacturers of gadgets and provide all the information right before the release of a new product, at specially prepared and thought out events.

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