Here's the previous generation, two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42415754
And here's more technical information about this generation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49443040
This attitude is seen in a lot of Japanese tech companies and their products over the past multiple decades, and it really irritates me. This, or the root cause of this, has to be one of major reasons why Japanese economy had stagnated, if not the key reason. There had been just so many things created, launched, and ... vanished in the wind.