Guess what, product shortages are a pretty desirable thing. Tons of companies fabricate fake sellouts to make their product seem hot (Apple surely has done it on occasion). First of all, they have no inventory, and can sell as quick as they can produce them. Second, it drives demand higher. Hence the high resale prices for new Apple product launches.
If demand exceeds supply because they simply suck at manufacturing, that's a different thing. But when Apple is able to manufacture millions on day one for a brand new product with a new manufacturing process, that hardly signals incompetence in their supply chain.
Your logic fails in almost every regard. You think someone will just give up immediately because they couldn't walk into a store the first time and buy one. If its a kid, it will just make him want one even more. If its an adult, most adults have patience and will simply wait. I highly doubt a person who is lusting for an iPad, will immediately give up and just say "eh let's get a kindle instead." The public has already become accustomed to Apple products being hot items that sell out quick. This happens every year, which is why you will see lines on launch day. You're acting like the public will be completely oblivious and expect stores to be packed with them.
Goes to show some people will buy anything apple releases.
I got order confirmation at 316AM eastern time.
When I had it in the cart (I have my credit card on file on apple store app webpage already). When I had it in the cart at 315AM, it said 11/2.
Transaction literally took 45 seconds from the time I loaded the app. When checked out, it said 2 week delay.
I heard the pre orders actually opened 2 minutes before 3AM? So if pre orders opened at 258AM eastern time and I ordered at 316AM. That makes me 18 minutes?
So I missed the cut off by 1 minute?
That sucks. I ended up ordering the black and the white 16GB wifi. Guess will return one of them.
I hope this is not where we are going - counting an USB3 port an innovation in late 2012.
Function is not innovation.
The screen are greats, but seriously adding USB3.0 to the mini is not innovation? Fusion is not an Apple innovation. It's rebranded hybrid drive. The only thing fancy is the hedious logo they are using.
This is what Apple is thinking: We didn't even have to price it at lower than $300 for it to sell out in 17 minutes. We win!
What happened to "this is too expensive, buying a Nexus 7 instead"![]()
And yet I'll still be able to casually saunter into an Apple Store on Nov 2, not queue and pick one up as if I'm buying a loaf of bread.
I pointed out that some of them were functions, but whatever. Like I said: Apple introduced innovation, just not the things you were hoping for. Tell me what you would have liked to see in the new devices.
Is it NFC that so many people keep mentioning? That too is a function (and not an innovation) and one that is used almost nowhere on the planet as yet.
So many keep asking about innovation, but they have no clue what they would like to see.
Truly remarkable. Apple once again destroys the competition with jaw-dropping pre-orders. Absolutely astonishing Apple sold out in less than an hour for a product the fandroids said was average and ridiculously overpriced.![]()
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I'm curious. What exactly is innovative about the iPad mini? Again, just curious.
The iPad2 screen looks awful. It looked awful even before "retina" existed. The mini will look better since it's the same resolution in a smaller size (higher ppi), but just how much better remains to be seen. The guy is totally right to take pause.The iPad 2 screen still looks good to me from a distance. I can only tell it's "inferior" because I'm spoiled with retina. I think 1024x768 will look decent enough on this screen. Retina will look even better next year...or in 6 months...heh