Why I Don’t Like Apple
Source: andyabramson.blogs.com
I ordered the U2 Black and Red iPod the first few days it was offered. I was told it would ship on or around the 18th of November. Around that time Apple sent me an email saying that due to demand the item would not ship until early December.
I say B.S. The retailers are all getting their U2 iPods and the ads on TV are driving people to the stores.
Apple used the online demand to help support the sell in in order to predict where the demand was coming from. Should I have waited and went to Best Buy? Maybe. Since I bought it more for the coolness of the colors, than a real need for the iPOD I’m not as upset as some people may be.
But Apple has always had a problem meeting demand and that’s what they do to drive demand. Short run, build up the secondary market and drive the buyers into as many stores as possible to get the product ordered so their numbers can look better the next quarter. It’s all a stock or I should say out of stock game with that company. That’s why I don’t like them.
