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maniacalrage: 42 Days Dear Apple, As both a customer and a loyal supporter/well-wisher of your company, this makes me very, very sad. It’s 2011. You’ve been building iPhones and iPads for a long time now. There is absolutely no reason you should be sold out of iPad 2 nation-wide after two days. I don’t care how overwhelming the demand is. There should never be a 40+ day shipping timeline for released products. You need to fix this immediately. I’m not a shareholder, but if I were I would be furious. Millions (billions?) of dollars are on the table. Demand is good, but demand without sales is very bad. Love, Garrett Chance of the iPad being available outside the US on the promised dates (i.e. end of next week)? I’d say about 0%. After all, if there are no devices to sell in the US, exactly what stock will they ship elsewhere?

maniacalrage:

42 Days

Dear Apple,

As both a customer and a loyal supporter/well-wisher of your company, this makes me very, very sad. It’s 2011. You’ve been building iPhones and iPads for a long time now. There is absolutely no reason you should be sold out of iPad 2 nation-wide after two days. I don’t care how overwhelming the demand is. There should never be a 40+ day shipping timeline for released products. You need to fix this immediately. I’m not a shareholder, but if I were I would be furious. Millions (billions?) of dollars are on the table. Demand is good, but demand without sales is very bad.

Love,
Garrett

Chance of the iPad being available outside the US on the promised dates (i.e. end of next week)? I’d say about 0%.

After all, if there are no devices to sell in the US, exactly what stock will they ship elsewhere?

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  1. jimcloudman reblogged this from maniacalrage and added:
    A friendly reminder to those...who are thinking...iPad 3...
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    quite pleased. We’re lowering...production costs while we know you’re going to buy it no...
  8. tickydraconia reblogged this from maniacalrage and added:
    would like to think that...delay you are experiencing is because they are actually...
  9. themorningchew reblogged this from maniacalrage and added:
    …as if every single person on...project isn’t busting their ass
  10. jonnyiselectric reblogged this from maniacalrage and added:
    First-World problems…
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    being available outside...US on the promised dates (i.e. end
  12. nstochasticity said: Hey, cool widget. I’ll just add that to my dashboard….. there. Now I know when my ThinkGeek stuff is coming.
  13. sparkgrrl658 said: what in the actual fuck? they know what the demand is going to be like too, that’s crazy. if you aren’t up to speed, delay the release date even. and more than a month? fuuuuuuuuck that.
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