agreed, well ... people are queuing for couple weeks (or months) of exclusivity =P
Personally i felt that they shouldn't stop taking orders in the apple store ... that would be a good way to gauge the number of sales so next year they could use the number to produce X% of orders in previous year and then add Y% of estimated sales increase this year.
If I had to guess, I think next year they will make absolutely as MANY as they possibly can... Like they did this year, and the year before... & the year before........