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Originally Posted by HarryT
You mean that it's being released at CES? I've not across the word "dropping" being used in that context before. Obviously a part of the great British/American English divide  . |
Yes, it's a bit ambiguous to a non-english speaker like me, dropping something could easily mean discontinuation, which wouldn't make sense ... considering the cost of a CES booth ("The We're-not-actually-going-to-sell-you-this-item-booth"). And drop shipping is more about not having any inventory, which may be the case if they have a really speedy manufacturer in China. I guess the author might have had dropping supplies from an airplane to troops on the ground in mind when he wrote that ... or drop a bomb in the sense that the news came as a surprise.