- Competitors can't respond in any material way that will take away from the announcement.
- Journalists (and thus consumers) get more time to grok the feature enhancements.
- Developers (the general 3P devs who don't have strategic partner early access) will have time to dream up how they'll extend the new features.
That being said, if this happened 3 or 6 months before the release, there would likely be more measurable damage.
- Competitors can't respond in any material way that will take away from the announcement.
- Journalists (and thus consumers) get more time to grok the feature enhancements.
- Developers (the general 3P devs who don't have strategic partner early access) will have time to dream up how they'll extend the new features.
That being said, if this happened 3 or 6 months before the release, there would likely be more measurable damage.