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Originally Posted by jaark View Post
Yes I do. There is no way that a delivery originating from one point in the globe can reach thousands of retailers at the same time and that all of those retailers have identical turn-around times. I have a hard time seeing how anyone can think that this is a reasonable idea.

You either tell them all to deliver as soon as possible, in which case you get uncertain delivery time. Or you tell them to delay their deliveries until a certain date, thus having stock in retailers' warehouses that could easily be in the hands of users.

Tell me, what miracle of logistics or time-travel have you invented that gives a third option?
It's fairly simple and obvious and no time travel is required.

Nokia knows very well when it plans to ship the N900 to India (for example). It doesn't have to figure out exactly when the product will make to every retailer in India but it does know when it will be generally available - that date is a function of when it plans to start shipping to that market and the normal length of supply chain to hit retail. They could easily say "Available in India from January 15th 2010" and then people can go ask their local retailer when they're getting it.

There's absolutely no need to hold back the date until every single sales outlet in the market has it. You just need a date for general availability.

Instead people in India have no clue at all when they're getting an N900. Neither does anyone in any other country albeit those in Western ones have an idea they're getting it soonish maybeish.