I wonder how many there were available? A few thousand? Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands? One million?
This headline is pointless without knowing a number of units. It is just free marketing for Samsung.
They won’t tell you. They need to keep the number unknown to create artificial scarcity and fomo buyers.
^ This may give some idea of how small the amount was for the launch.
20 stores only. Sold out in minutes. I'm guessing it takes a minute to get from the door to the display, pick one up and get to the checkout. Now people are still in parallel for this, but still I'm guessing 10 per store, with 100 the absolute max - so between 200 and 2000 (could be as low as 20)
I don't know about minutes given the pictures in the article but yeah I'd imagine your numbers are still correct
That is lines outside - we have no idea how many of those got one.
480 minutes is technically still "minutes".
It looks like everyone is facing away from the store as if theyre waiting in line for whatever store is next door 😆
So fuck all was "sold out in minutes". In a country of 51mil+ that is nothing.
While it was previously reported that Samsung was only looking to manufacture ~20,000 to ~30,000 TriFold units, its quick sellout could be seen as a positive.
Is this 20-30K for the initial batch or lifetime? That's a critical point.
These things are usually calculated quarter to quarter.
I understand that this is stupidly expensive and folding phone are fragile. But I do think they are the first exciting innovation to happen to phones in a while. Not just chasing higher numbers for the spec sheet. If they can solve the technical problems maybe in 5-10 years we can have the best aspects of a tablet and phone combined. And maybe phones can stop being so damn big when they're folded closed
The fold and the flip have already cycled several years of continuous improvement. The hinges now are a massive improvement over the original flimsy hinges. The crease has been getting smoother as well.
It's interesting, it's still an early adopter kind of product. But it obviously has a market, however small it might be.
People love giving away their hard earned money
The people buying this likely don't have heard earned money. They're influencers or trust fund babies.
That's true, even my friends I would consider doing well aren't spending multiple thousands of dollars on a phone right now. Economy isn't in a state where sane people feel like giving away that much
And standing in line for the privilege to spend it.
One more thing I will never buy, yet interesting that it sold out.
I didn't expect that t will sold out, especially in this price.
Never say never. There are some things I hope I never figure out what those wide men are talking about, but this isn't even in that same league. Maybe I'll buy one, it remains to be seen if there is some potential use I haven't thought of today. Probably not, but...
All both of them?
Or like a hundred million?
Sony pulls this shit with every new Playstation, through the ingenious and difficult process of not making enough. "PS3 sold out at launch! New shipment sold out again! And again!" Meanwhile they'd moved fewer total units than the 360 in the same timeframe, but Microsoft made one big shipment instead of three small ones.
Am I the only one who thinks these are ridiculous?
Extra screens are like the next shaver thing.
Remember when everyone made fun of those smug iPhone assholes waiting in lines to buy their new phone?
I bought mine but I am reselling it. What a waste!
Never mind the tri-fold part; it's ridiculous that anybody is stupid enough to buy Samsung's DRM'd shit.
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