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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?
Major launches usually don't happen on a "deliver as soon as possible" method. Let's take for example the recent MS Windows 7 launch. Can you imagine the chaos that would have come about if instead of setting a launch date of Oct. 22 2009 Microsoft had just said "Windows 7 is launching sometime in October. You can pre-order it from Microsoft.com, Amazon.com, Newegg.com, Dell.com, etc. but whichever retailer receives the stock first will start shipping as soon as they get the product in."

I'm not trying to compare the scale of the N900 launch to the Win7 launch, but not having a "launch date" is pretty absurd in my book. I would rather they have a definite date, ship to all retailers so they have stock on hand (and sit on product until launch date if necessary) to release on a specific date. It's not an impossible feat. Game consoles (XBox 360, PS3, Wii), smartphones (iPhone, Pre) plus much much more are examples that have done on a far greater scale.
 

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