Desktop V1 - a minimum-requirements section from Product, a December to first-week-of-January window, latest-only as the working assumption, and an accepted black eye

Situation

With Brady desktop document in hand (the design-plan condition from 10/1), Peter asked for a paragraph or redline at the top listing the absolute minimum requirements for V1, as aggressive and small as possible, and offered a window: something in December or the first week of January. Nathan working assumption is that the first drop is on latest only, not LTS; Peter asked Brady to capture it and call it out if wrong. Brady will schedule a separate LTS discussion since Everfox technically needs it. Peter accepts burning a bridge with one or two customers and taking a short black eye, fixing UI/UX afterward.

Reasoning

The date followed the plan exactly as committed on 10/1. Desktop is a market test, not a product launch - Sales says it gets CIQ to tables where Ubuntu is being thrown out, Peter doubts the market exists, so it should be cheap and easy to drop. Latest-only is the single biggest lever on Nathan comfort and undercuts his 2028 tongue-in-cheek dates that Greg and Bjorn take literally. In the AI era UI/UX fixes on a decent architecture are cheap, so a brief black eye is an acceptable price - a call Peter says he would not have made at Apple.

Additional Context

Latest-only is Nathan assumption that Peter asked Brady to record, not a Peter ruling. Corroborated in the Justin 1:1: GNOME supported on RLC AI or RLC Pro, not a whole new product; kill it quickly if no market fit.

Observed Evidence

Direct quotes on minimum section, December/first-week-January window, capture the not-LTS assumption, and accepting a black eye with one or two customers.

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