When releasing a product, are you Apple or Android?

Thankfully we moved on from this in smartphones - the first 3G phone released by Nokia and my own first 3G handset!

"The next year, Google attempted to deliver an answer to Apple's iPad in the form of Android 3.0 Honeycomb, but just as it had in smartphones, the effort was plagued by shoddy hardware, the "unstable performance" of Google's unfinished software, platform fragmentation and non-competitive pricing. Further, rather than help Android smartphones via economies of scale, Honeycomb only distracted Google's attention away from polishing either product category."

Fantastic history-of-the-smartphone article from AppleInsider. When you release a product or start a business, are you releasing something that is excellent from the get-go, or in need of immediate upgrade and evolution? I know I'd rather under-sell and over-achieve than over-sell and under-achieve......