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- Apple doesn't usually clear the channel beforehand - "Limited stock" is relative. Clearly they sold as many as they made. If they made 500,000 would you cal
by arn 16y ago
- Apple doesn't usually clear the channel beforehand
- "Limited stock" is relative. Clearly they sold as many as they made. If they made 500,000 would you call it limited stock still? 1,000,000? 2,000,000? You just don't know how many they made.
- gamble 16y agoI'm not sure what you're talking about. Retail availability of Apple products is almost always reduced before new launches. The iPad 1 was easily available right up to the iPad 2 launch. Best estimates right now are around 500k units. Given the obvious level of demand, that's 'limited' in my book.
- arn 16y ago- It's rare that stock completely bottoms out. There's a lot of tea-reading that happens with reseller stock levels near new product launch. It happened with the iPad too: http://www.gforgames.com/gadgets/news-gadgets/ipad-stock-shortages-ipad-2-release-date-announcement-coming-5592/ http://www.gforgames.com/gadgets/news-gadgets/ipad-stock-sho... Either way, I disagree with you. 1) if you expect that you wouldn't be able to get an iPad at all. 2) if you think the pre-low-stock talk was any different for iPad than any other refreshed Apple product. - Estimates for 500,000 units are from Analysts who are notoriously inaccurate. The original iPad sold 300,000 units opening weekend. So if you were Tim Cook, what's your reasonable "not limited" number to shoot for iPad 2 launch based on the original sales? 2x? 3x? 10x? We'll likely find out how close you and Apple's numbers agree as the launch numbers will probably be announced.