I sent an email off to the North American media contact for iRex. I don't really expect to get an answer, but maybe we'll get lucky and get some definitive information.
I would think Best Buy would want to start selling as soon as they have the product. As a retailer they simply want to move as much product as they can. However, since iRex already gave them bad data before (the original launch plan) they could now be requiring a certain amount of inventory before actually releasing the product. It's all just speculation, but it is definitely odd to put out a press release and then have it disappear the next day.
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