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From: chrisv on 31 Mar 2010 09:08 White Spirit wrote: >On 31/03/2010 13:31, Mocassin joe wrote: > >> So - how many were available in the first place, 1000, or 1,000,000. Nobody >> knows. > >It's a common ploy for companies to deliberately limit supplies in order >to give the impression that demand is much greater than it really is. >It wouldn't surprise me if Apple were up to this. I doubt they need to play those games. They seem to have plenty of followers.
From: Ezekiel on 31 Mar 2010 09:13 "White Spirit" <wspirit(a)homechoice.co.uk> wrote in message news:hovg24$sv3$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > On 31/03/2010 13:31, Mocassin joe wrote: > >> So - how many were available in the first place, 1000, or 1,000,000. >> Nobody >> knows. > > It's a common ploy for companies to deliberately limit supplies in order > to give the impression that demand is much greater than it really is. It > wouldn't surprise me if Apple were up to this. You mean like these COLA threads? "linux palm pre smartphone sold out in many locations" "Amazon's GNU/Linux Gadget Sold Out Within Just 5 Hours" "GNU/Linux-powered Cloudbook Already Sold Out (on Release Date)" "Linux-Based Open-Source Hardware Gadget Sold Out" "Linux-based Eee PC Sold Out Within a Day in Australia" "OpenMoko Already Sold Out"
From: Rick on 31 Mar 2010 09:45 On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:13:46 -0400, Ezekiel wrote: > "White Spirit" <wspirit(a)homechoice.co.uk> wrote in message > news:hovg24$sv3$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >> On 31/03/2010 13:31, Mocassin joe wrote: >> >>> So - how many were available in the first place, 1000, or 1,000,000. >>> Nobody >>> knows. >> >> It's a common ploy for companies to deliberately limit supplies in >> order to give the impression that demand is much greater than it really >> is. It wouldn't surprise me if Apple were up to this. > > You mean like these COLA threads? > > > "linux palm pre smartphone sold out in many locations" > > "Amazon's GNU/Linux Gadget Sold Out Within Just 5 Hours" > > "GNU/Linux-powered Cloudbook Already Sold Out (on Release Date)" > > "Linux-Based Open-Source Hardware Gadget Sold Out" > > "Linux-based Eee PC Sold Out Within a Day in Australia" > > "OpenMoko Already Sold Out" Goose ... Gander. -- Rick
From: White Spirit on 31 Mar 2010 10:12 On 31/03/2010 14:08, chrisv wrote: > White Spirit wrote: >> On 31/03/2010 13:31, Mocassin joe wrote: >>> So - how many were available in the first place, 1000, or 1,000,000. Nobody >>> knows. >> It's a common ploy for companies to deliberately limit supplies in order >> to give the impression that demand is much greater than it really is. >> It wouldn't surprise me if Apple were up to this. > I doubt they need to play those games. They seem to have plenty of > followers. I suppose I just find it difficult to believe that so many people are willing to pay for overpriced hardware that can't do a tenth of what a netbook can do. Apple must be doing something right.
From: Ezekiel on 31 Mar 2010 10:19
"White Spirit" <wspirit(a)homechoice.co.uk> wrote in message news:hovl6p$diu$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > On 31/03/2010 14:08, chrisv wrote: > >> White Spirit wrote: > >>> On 31/03/2010 13:31, Mocassin joe wrote: > >>>> So - how many were available in the first place, 1000, or 1,000,000. >>>> Nobody >>>> knows. > >>> It's a common ploy for companies to deliberately limit supplies in order >>> to give the impression that demand is much greater than it really is. >>> It wouldn't surprise me if Apple were up to this. > >> I doubt they need to play those games. They seem to have plenty of >> followers. > > I suppose I just find it difficult to believe that so many people are > willing to pay for overpriced hardware that can't do a tenth of what a > netbook can do. Can't do 1/10th? Care to list all of these things that typical users want to do with a netbook that can't be done with an iPad? (Hint - compiling drivers and editing gigabytes of video isn't something that is commonly done on a netbook.) > Apple must be doing something right. They're making a device/gadget that approaches the problem from the user's perspective. The traditional approach is "people want a computer" and they view this as "people want to check email... people want to share photos... etc." Many people don't want or need a computer - they just want to perform certain tasks. |