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Other manufacturers ship 1M units and end up selling 20,000 units.
The remaining 980k units eventually get sold on liquidation...

...often 50%+ of them are at a heavy discount or loss.

It's funny, what you're describing is so awful you can't even bring yourself to say it.

you should have written:

...often 98%+ of them are at a heavy discount or loss.

And that is where we are at. Go up against Apple and lose BIG.

Who is going to invest in that?
 
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