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Re:Tesla reports first quarterly profit in more than three y... by azernik on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @10:23PM (#12802464)
It's actually a very Apple strategy - discount the old iPhone, the fans realize a new one is in the pipeline but nothing's announced, and then the new one is finally released.
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Re:Tesla reports first quarterly profit in more than three y... by gruturo on Thursday October 27, 2016 @03:46AM (#12803493)
The iPhone is on an extremely predictable release cycle. Especially fans would absolutely know that one comes around the last week of September every year. This scheduling got changed only _once_ (moved from June to September), and this was not kept secret.
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Re:Tesla reports first quarterly profit in more than three y... by abhorrence on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @10:38PM (#12802533)
But the iPhone is predictably released each year, so I'm not sure this is really the same.
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Re:Tesla reports first quarterly profit in more than three y... by azernik on Thursday October 27, 2016 @02:24AM (#12803246)
But differing times of year. So fans use the discounts as a leading indicator of releases on the month to 2 month scale.
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