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Apple Already Sold Out of Initial White iPad Mini Pre-Order Stock

G4DP said:
My mistake I thougt they were using something advanced, not just a half arsed rip off of ReadyBoost, which has been around since Vista.

Which ever way, it's not innovation, unless you count copying as innovation. But it's Apple so that doesn't matter.
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You could hot swap a ReadyBoost drive since it was a simple swap (cache) unit. Fusion drive doesn't replicate data from hard disk. Instead, the capacity of a Fusion drive is a sum of HDD capacity + SSD capacity.

Intel Ultrabooks have small SSD drives for faster reading/writing but the space is wasted for caching instead of adding capacity to the overall storage.
 
drew0020 said:
Are you kidding me? The stress of a kid asking for a $329 gift? Wow, I thought I have seen it all on these forums. Would you actually get them a BMW if thats what they wanted for Christmas? You have to draw the line somewhere...
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me, no.. My kids are 25 and 26 now and they are on their own in term of gift. But getting BMW for a kid is not unheard of in some area.. It all depends on the parents personal financial circumstance. Would it shock you that in NYC, you can pay $3000+ a month in rent for a 400 sq ft condo with doorman? Money is all relative..
 
brdeveloper said:
You could hot swap a ReadyBoost drive since it was a simple swap (cache) unit. Fusion drive doesn't replicate data from hard disk. Instead, the capacity of a Fusion drive is a sum of HDD capacity + SSD capacity.

Intel Ultrabooks have small SSD drives for faster reading/writing but the space is wasted for caching instead of adding capacity to the overall storage.
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Still, same concept as what the seagate's do, only the flash is larger and outside the drive. It really isn't innovative. If anything, it's less elegant with 2 separate components, and not having the drive itself monitor usage and swapping stuff around as needed. All seagate has to do to make their drives even more compelling is increase flash. You end up with a product that is user replaceable, and you can even put them in your MacBook pros if you want.
 
ictiosapiens said:
Still, same concept as what the seagate's do, only the flash is larger and outside the drive. It really isn't innovative. If anything, it's less elegant with 2 separate components, and not having the drive itself monitor usage and swapping stuff around as needed. All seagate has to do to make their drives even more compelling is increase flash. You end up with a product that is user replaceable, and you can even put them in your MacBook pros if you want.
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It would be nice if it happens. If something like this exists until late 2013, I'll keep my Macbook strong for a couple of years more. The bad thing is Seagate manufacturing. I have an external 1.5TB drive which backing up data into is a pita. It always hangs while backup is still running.
 
ordered a white 16gb wi-fi mini and a 32gb black lte iPad 4, mini scheduled for nov 2 delivery pad scheduled for nov 21, ordered at 2:02am cst
 
xofruitcake said:
me, no.. My kids are 25 and 26 now and they are on their own in term of gift. But getting BMW for a kid is not unheard of in some area.. It all depends on the parents personal financial circumstance. Would it shock you that in NYC, you can pay $3000+ a month in rent for a 400 sq ft condo with doorman? Money is all relative..
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I grew up in NY. Had a 600 square foot apartment in the city for $2,000 a month. Trust me I know!
 
appleguy123 said:
What could be more "incredibly...stupid" than to not meet demand of a hot product when there are a plethora of competitors also vying for a share in the market?

The new 10" iPad was also updated, and if Apple keeps an October cycle for it, the next redesign or new component(not in iPhone already) will cause a similar shortage, so the analogy stands.
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Again, you're assuming that components, production capacity and every other stage of the supply chain just happens as if by magic. Look, let me put it this way, Apple could probably meet initial demand if they built up... for arguments sake lets say three months worth of production. Except, of course, they could also launch after one month of production, have the product in the waiting hands of customers rather than wasting money in a warehouse and get some real world data on demand. If that demand is looking like it's holding steady THEN ramp up your production to meet long term, not short term, levels.

There's other downsides too of course. Just to throw one example out there, the recent problems with the iPhone 5 scratching. The more units you have built up before releasing the more you have to replace if a manufacturing problem hasn't been detected. What about sites like, well, like this one that report every rumor about Apple? The longer you build up stock for the more likely it is that details will leak and the period where some customers hold on to their money gets longer.

Oh, and you're still assuming that customers are ultra-rational and will buy another product if the one they want isn't available. This really, really isn't the case especially if they can just go on a waiting list and get one in two weeks. If it was three or four months then you may have a point but as it is... nah, sorry.
 
iPad mini a dud?

Selling out the white iPad mini but not the black is a bad sign. Why? In one post, black outsells white 2-1. That means Apple builds fewer white Pads, so it is not surprising that the whites are gone.



When the iPad 3 went on sale earlier this year, initial quantities of black and white were gone in about an hour. The fact that the black mini is still available seems to indicate that the mini is a dud.



Apple's stock is down as well. Maybe because of investor "disappointment" but maybe because the demand for the mini is muted.
 
ZenErik said:
Could you sound like any more of a douchebag? It's a damn tablet. No need for all this 'us' vs 'them' rubbish.
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Clearly you haven't been paying attention to the now deafening cacophony coming from unruly fandroid and fanboy hordes. It's war baby.
 
I reckon this "short supply , will also affect cellular minis too.

Apple never learns its lession... It knew how big the iphone 5 was... All they needed to do was 4x the number of mini's what they had.
 
Over 24 hours and the black mini is still in stock. I do expect Apple to make everything out of stock just like what they did with iPad 3. They need to show it's selling like pancakes to build up demand. Should be no problem walking into the store to purchase one on release day. Pretty sad to have waited in line for iPad 3 only for stores to have plenty in stock for days.
 
cdmoore74 said:
Over 24 hours and the black mini is still in stock. I do expect Apple to make everything out of stock just like what they did with iPad 3. They need to show it's selling like pancakes to build up demand. Should be no problem walking into the store to purchase one on release day. Pretty sad to have waited in line for iPad 3 only for stores to have plenty in stock for days.
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the 16 GB Black model is now sold out ;)
 
dampfnudel said:
So the white mini sold out first. It looks like a lot of women are getting one to fit into their handbag.
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I think the White one just looks better this time(always preferred black in past). It is also the one Apple features when you visit the Apple front page.

The white one looks sharp with that silver highlight around the display.

The Black one is just black on black on black back. It looks nondescript.

Also I don't use a case for my portable devices (makes them bigger/less portable) and I think black back will show scratches much worse than the silver back.
 
bobcubsfan said:
Selling out the white iPad mini but not the black is a bad sign. Why? In one post, black outsells white 2-1. That means Apple builds fewer white Pads, so it is not surprising that the whites are gone.



When the iPad 3 went on sale earlier this year, initial quantities of black and white were gone in about an hour. The fact that the black mini is still available seems to indicate that the mini is a dud.



Apple's stock is down as well. Maybe because of investor "disappointment" but maybe because the demand for the mini is muted.
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Can you point to one statement in your post that is not an assumption? Do you have any supporting data to back your claims up?
 
phpmaven said:
It's a shame they didn't price these low enough, they're would have sold really well. :rolleyes:
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What big electronic product HASN'T sold out in the last few years.

It's a marketing stunt; they get fresh headlines saying "SOLDOUT" and customers rush to the store on launch day so that they get the pics in the paper of people lining up to buy an overpriced low res tablet.
 
CarlElvis said:
What big electronic product HASN'T sold out in the last few years.

It's a marketing stunt; they get fresh headlines saying "SOLDOUT" and customers rush to the store on launch day so that they get the pics in the paper of people lining up to buy an overpriced low res tablet.
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This has certainly got to be one of the most cretinous comments I've ever read on these forums.
 
phpmaven said:
This has certainly got to be one of the most cretinous comments I've ever read on these forums.
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Ok buddy, keep drinking the kool-aid and believing the hype machine. They need folks like you to start lining up, period. The dinner bell has rung, go earn your meal.
 
Bytor65 said:
I think the White one just looks better this time(always preferred black in past). It is also the one Apple features when you visit the Apple front page.

The white one looks sharp with that silver highlight around the display.

The Black one is just black on black on black back. It looks nondescript.

Also I don't use a case for my portable devices (makes them bigger/less portable) and I think black back will show scratches much worse than the silver back.
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Another reason to wait (or get a iPad 4), maybe even until next year's mini take 2 to see if Apple does something about that.
 
KnightWRX said:
I wonder why not one picked up on the fact that the black model seems to be a slow move while the white model just vanished in minutes.
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It's been widely noted many many times by many many people over the past couple of days.
 
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