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Am I the only one who see's the numbers as a bit odd?

So the first day (april 3rd) they sold 300,000 units. Four days later (april 8th) they were talking about having sold 450,000 units (~37.5k per day) now 6 days after that, they announce 500,000 units (~8.3k per day).

How exactly is this "a runaway success"?

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The 300k figure was sales as of the first day, including three weeks of pre-orders. They did not drop from 300k/day to 37k/day, because there was never a single day that they sold 300k. They sold ~14k/day over the three weeks.

The 500k figure listed here is delivered. There is currently a 5-7 day delay, which suggests there are a few hundred thousand orders not being counted in that figure.

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