16 GB 3G Massively Understocked, underhanded move by apple

[WLS]

Could this be ignorance on the part of the clerk?

Never assign to malice or conspiracy that which can be explained by ignorance and stupidity.

 

[Chip NoVaMac]

Since all the 3gs had sold out at the Apple store I went to (Pentagon City) within a couple of hours, I cannot see any conspiracy just because the 16s sold out first.

They could have had fewer 16s on the first day as a business decision because of market research or assessing the mail order patterns. Also they may have thought that someone going for the lower price point would go for the cheapest 16 wifi and would not spend another $130 for the 3g. Maybe they thought the 3g buyers were more likely to want the 64 or 32s. When someone is already paying $700 for an iPad, it's a big purchase, and paying another $100 for the 64 is not a big disincentive to get an iPad with more storage on the first day. Finally, as several people have mentioned, a person can still get the 16 3g by ordering or waiting for restocking.

Knew in my waiting and reading here I went from the 16GB to the 32GB and finally the 64GB iPad. Trying to tweak my iTunes library to be less than half of the 64GB on my iPad 3G 64GB

I know that want space for some of the great Apps to come. And space for my growing photo collection. As well as the many PDF's that I want access too...

Right now I have 30GB of audio, 2.5GB of video, 600MB of photos, almost 3GB worth of Apps, 40MB's of books so far....

Know that I can trim down the audio part here to give me more space for the other stuff