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Originally Posted by elcreative
So you didn't notice that Thailand manufactured nearly a third of the world's hard disks and a substantial amount of other electronics... all covered in the news on TV, the net and even in newspapers... so, yes, a flood that was several months in length and overwhelmed the countries flood defences, can seriously affect the supply of many components... there isn't a huge oversupply of manufacturing capabilities and much of the output is pre-ordered so any shortage has a major knock-on effect...
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There's not a single e-reader that contains a hard drive, let alone a hard drive manufactured in Thailand. And as to other components, well, if there was a shortage that affected makers of readers we should have seen a shortage of readers in our stores and/or increasing prices. None of that happened.