Beating the iPod Crunch

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[devilot]

Hm, I thought that this (product shortage) happened every holiday season w/ whichever was Apple's newest products. NO BLITZ YET. So how bad will the shortages be? Because Apple is so private, it's almost impossible to know for sure. But it could impede Apple from meeting Wall Street's more optimistic projections. <snip>

Shoppers are almost sure to feel the sting as well, especially on red-hot products like the black 4-gig nano and possibly for both versions of the video iPod, including the 30-gigabyte and 60-gigabyte models.

[mikeyredk]

Why haven't people realized this is apple's strategy? Get a high class product eg. original iPod than improve on it, than flood the market with a low "Quality"/"cost" version. All while putting a strangle hold on supply