04-27-2017, 01:26 PM
I think the demand was largely created by artificial scarcity. If anyone could just walk into a store and pick it up at any time, it wouldn't have gotten nearly the hype. People see other people going out of their way to get it and get caught up the mentality. Artificial scarcity can actually maximize profit over creating as many units are the market demands... especially if you're selling a niche product with a relative short period of marketability.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth