Nokia's New Lumia: In High Demand, or Just Short on Supply? - NYTimes.com
So I was reading this article in the NY Times, where the author was talking about the low supplies of the Lumia 920. To paraphrase, he was curious as to whether they were short because demand was high, or that possibly Nokia just could not make enough. I know this has been discussed before, but the one line in the article that prompted me to make a post was this
Now, I will freely admit, I am not the most astute of business people. To me though, if you have a product and people are buying it, you make sure you have enough to supply the demand. What I am saying is that I seriously doubt Nokia purposefully under produced, because they thought no one would be buying the Lumia line of phones. Again, that's just my opinion. If anything, it still to me is an indicator of strong sales, even were they to not produce enough, because it would mean demand was still stronger than what they thought it would be.
So I was reading this article in the NY Times, where the author was talking about the low supplies of the Lumia 920. To paraphrase, he was curious as to whether they were short because demand was high, or that possibly Nokia just could not make enough. I know this has been discussed before, but the one line in the article that prompted me to make a post was this
He noted that on Amazon, for instance, the Lumia 920 sold out just three days after it went on sale on Nov. 7, and the ?backordered? status has stuck ever since ? a sign that Nokia may simply be lowballing supply because it doesn?t expect to sell many phones here.
Now, I will freely admit, I am not the most astute of business people. To me though, if you have a product and people are buying it, you make sure you have enough to supply the demand. What I am saying is that I seriously doubt Nokia purposefully under produced, because they thought no one would be buying the Lumia line of phones. Again, that's just my opinion. If anything, it still to me is an indicator of strong sales, even were they to not produce enough, because it would mean demand was still stronger than what they thought it would be.