• Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Apple’s, shareholder’s… Economists doing 8 balls of their secretaries chest. No body sane thought this was gonna sell like hot cakes.

    • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Yeah and to be fair 400-450k is still in the realm of $1.4bn in revenue. That’s pretty good for a new product in year 1 (and presumably the device is at least marginally profitable at the high price - if not it’s a gamble on the future). And sales like that for something that is basically an expensive proof of concept is pretty impressive.