On the blog he they stated production of the Pi Zeros had to be delayed to build up the Raspberry Pi 3's. Now that the initial surge of Raspberry Pi 3's is done, they stated they will build "thousands a day" until demand is met.
I'm not sure "thousands a day" will ever even clear the backlog of people waiting to get their first much less keep up with the latent demand of people who would buy a handful once they knew they could reliably get them for use in projects.
You can claim 1000's (as in 2) and still not even make 3/4 million per year.
Is the backlog really in the millions? That would be impressive.
Yeah, when they shipped first raspberrys the demand was in millions. Now because Zero is so small and cheap, everyone who needed pi for tinkering will order several zeros, including me. The only thing which prevented me from getting one was lack of camera connector.
Production has now increased following the release of rpi3. I got an email just today announcing stock at one of the suppliers.
Adafruit has already sold out again on RPiZero v1.3, as of the time of this comment.
In stock at the pihut as of the time of this comment.
But you can order only one.
Until they catch up with demand, yes.
I _like_ that Adafruit are selling the "bare Pi Zero" for $5, but the one per customer and ~$16 delivery means my project which wants a dozen of them is still not practical. If I could get 20 of them for $100+shipping I'd be all over that.