They don't make money on software right now. I guess they still have lots of spare parts for future batches around, or contracts with third party suppliers that

They don't make money on software right now. I guess they still have lots of spare parts for future batches around, or contracts with third party suppliers that require them to buy certain amounts of parts. So given the huge demand, they may simply want to make less of a loss (i.e. just trashing the spare parts may be more expensive)