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RE: They were meant to be sold out!
By Tony Swash on 2/4/2011 6:31:36 PM , Rating: -1
Please DailyTech, do not fall for the Apple sold out trick again.

You don't find it incredibly convenient that Apple always seem to sell more than they officially planned for, making every just slightly successful Apple product sell out in the first days?
After all with more than 5 years of this happening Apple could probably plan to have the right amount, but they deliberately don't.

There is good reasons not to.
It fits into the marketing plan of making Apple an exclusive brand, although it really isn't anymore, because exclusive is what the recently launched product is to the guy that have been waiting for hours just to be among the first to get one. A feeling he will surely show when the media covering the launch interviews him.
Having enough wouldn't make the sold out news spread across the media either, something Apple surely want as it reminds the people of the world that there is a new Apple gadget they can buy on the street soon.
And those are just the ones my tired head could come up with, but I'm sure there is more.

I love this sort of brainless tosh.

Such a desperate attempt to retreat from a troubling reality.

The arcane ways that Apple's success is always explained as being the result of some nefarious plan, some marketing gimmick, some trick.

Anything but accept the simple truth.

Apple's products are very, very popular.

The iPhone has been very,very popular since it's launch.

Millions of people in the USA wanted to buy an iPhone but didn't want to use the AT&T networks. Now they can buy the Verizon iPhone and will do so in their millions. Most won't be switchers from AT&T, most will be either people who have held off from buying a smart phone until they could get an iPhone on Verizon or they will be switchers from the various Android handsets.

The number of Verizon Android to iPhone switchers will surprise and dismay some people on this forum.

RE: They were meant to be sold out!
By sprockkets on 2/4/2011 7:26:28 PM , Rating: 2
Soooooo, if that's the case why don't they release the actual sales numbers?

I'm sure if they are so great they wouldn't have any issue gloating about it.

By SPOOFE on 2/6/2011 8:48:40 PM , Rating: 2

Hmm? Sure they do. If they boast and then see a bad quarter (or not even a bad quarter; just one slightly less good than before), that makes 'em look even worse than if they had kept their talk fairly close to the vest. "Pride goes before a fall."

