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by RobertKohr 5210 days ago
They should have charged more.

It is obvious that demand was way more than supply. When demand is too high, you raise prices to decrease demand to match with your supply. When you increase supply you can lower prices to have demand match it.

In the long run they want to make it so everyone can have one for cheap, but really they don't have the infrastructure to do that. By selling at a higher price they can use the extra money to build out that infrastructure and then lower prices.

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So should they have announced higher prices recently and had to face all the "knew they couldn't do it at the prices they promised, was all nonsense!" opinions? Or should they have never announced their real prices, and not got so much good press?