Blog Apogee wonders: "Companies are still supposed to have good estimation on their products' success. I wouldn't trust a company that failed in it's estimations so badly. Would you?"
Actually, determining the success or failure of a product is difficult. Consider motherboard manufacturers in the mid-1990s - they would make a few dozen boards and ship them to key locations in the U.S. If the boards sold well then the company would make newer revisions of the boards. In fact, Intel was pushing many companies to use "just in time" inventory systems to allocate product. There were always shortages of products. In fact, some of the less scrupulous Internet resellers would tell people they had stock when they really did not have the product. Oh well - buyer beware.
But back to the question - would you trust Amazon? Personally, there appears to be a glitch in the software used by Amazon. In dozens of orders with them, they have always shipped on the promised dates. Keeping the site updated, though, does seem to be a challenge with the Kindle. Hopefully they will fix their programming glitch.


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