You creatively parsed my words but you clearly didn't get my point, or are trying to change it to suit yours.
It's the way your post came across.
Obviously I was not suggesting that anyone should be happy specifically about a shortage of these precious pencils. I was saying be happy that Apple makes great products which are so popular there are shortages.
There are shortages, but they are being made 10x worse because the so-called scalpers are taking advantage of the demand (just like concerts I suppose) and buying tons of them and reselling them at 5x their price or more. It may or may not be legal in a given state for a given purpose, but it's pretty damn immoral (i.e. taking advantage of people desperate to get whatever product sooner rather than later) and given they are not part of the supply chain, it's doing little more than ripping people off.
There are plenty of companies who make stuff that isn't popular, and they die off. Sorry that was so hard to understand.
That's not the way your post read at all. You basically told him he should be thankful that Apple is so popular that it brings out the thieves and con artists to screw people over (not traditionally true in the sense that most malware authors don't even bother with the Apple market since it's tiny compared to Windows or Android).
Regardless of how you read what I said, there is nothing "horrible" about it. I know people are suffering deeply and profoundly throughout this tragic inability to draw cats promptly within 14 days of receiving their iPad Pro. But "horrible" is a little strong, don't you think? Call me old fashioned, but "horrible" is best used to describe slightly weightier events, maybe like getting killed at a concert or while sitting in a cafe.
It's horrible that people are such evil little craps that they have to make money off by scamming people. It's a horrible thing to tell people to be happy they're getting screwed in the same breath (kind of like telling me I'm too cheap to buy from a scalper when in my opinion the only place scalpers belong are in a prison cell for being the scum of the earth). Some people have been waiting for this product for some time to put it to use in jobs and having someone shake you down for $500 for a $99 stylus is insult to injury. Never pay a kidnapper/terrorist or a blackmailer or a scalper. That's what keeps them doing the same thing over and over. Don't negotiate with criminals or scum bags (scalpers).
Just imagine camping out for a week to get concert tickets for your favorite artist and you're #2 in line only to watch #1 buy all 200 seats in the arena on the floor and you're told, "sorry we're sold out". Then #1 approaches you and others and offers to sell you the $50 ticket for $500. Sadly, this crap is even legal in some areas. My mother wanted to see Frank Valli this past year and the whole concert was sold out from the venue. But scalping is legal around here and you could get that same $90 ticket for "only" $350 now from a "scalper" who bought out the entire venue and then resells it at 2-10x the price depending on how good the seats are. She refused to buy from a human POS like that and I don't blame her.
It's also a "horrible" thing to tell people to be happy about it. It reeks along the same logic pattern of telling someone to be happy that they only lost their arms in Iraq. But hey, they're still alive! Be HAPPY! Look on the bright side!
In any case, I don't even have an iPad Pro and don't want one so I'm not being "cheap" either way.
