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Originally Posted by holymadness
LOL
If you think Apple went to market with massive supply shortages, you know nothing either about business or Apple. The company is run by very intelligent people. Much smarter than you. They will have spent the last 12 months ensuring that their supply is proportionate to expected demand. Which is huge.
But we already knew that.
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I don't know if they "went to market with massive supply shortages", but it is a VERY common practice to change the "amount left in stock" number in the database so that it
appears that whatever you're selling is out of stock. This tends to drive demand, since what is scarce is perceived to be more valuable. It's a marketing ploy that I have seen done at many of the different companies I have done work for over the years. While it's true that I have never worked with companies the size of Apple, I have worked with other fairly large companies that sell online, and they have ALL done this to build hype for a product that they are pushing to sell.
All that being said, I don't know that this is what Apple is doing. It could be a supply problem, or it could be that millions of people got up in the middle of the night to buy a phone. Normally I would say that the "getting up in the middle of the night" idea would be ludicrous, but...this is Apple. People stand in line for days to buy their stuff. So...it could be that they really did sell millions in the first hour.
By the way...I really don't care one way or another about the iPhone, or Apple products in general. I own a Mac laptop, a PC, an Android phone, and bought my daughter an iPad. Please don't try to paint me as "Apple hater" or "Android fanboi" or anything of the sort.
Shari