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Originally Posted by Morpheus Phreak
I've worked for one of the big electronics companies near Seattle (no not Amazon) and small revisions shortly after launch are fairly commonplace in the industry.
Also remember that if they started doing a mass production run, spotted some issue with a small number of units and re-tooled based off of that they could have produced enough units to cover a few weeks of shipping, then slipped in the newer revision.
I'm not saying this is the case, but I am saying I have seen this happen more than a few times in my years in the tech industry.
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I have also worked (and still do) in the tech industry, and I see your point, though in my experience this is more the kind of thing that happens further down the road. Most usually, the manufacturer replaces certain components to bring down the cost of the device, while maintaining the same functionality from a user perspective (for instance, replace the CPU with a per-pin identical one, but with a different and cheaper silicon process), or change the RAM/EMMC supplier, and so on. But, in my experience, this happens months after the initial launch. But there could certainly be cases as the one you describe.