[GeekyBear]

Having retail partners did not prevent Apple from protecting consumers from scalpers while manufacturing ramps up enough to meet demand.

[mwint]

Apple has way, way more clout with retailers than Sony, simply because Apple can live without its retail partners. Sony definitely cannot.

[GeekyBear]

No, Apple cared that it's customers were having to compete with scalpers while manufacturing ramped up enough to meet demand and Sony does not.