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apparently said sell-through...was "quite smooth"

What the hell does that even mean? When someone asks for a quantity you give them a number or an estimate of a number (big,average,small). When you want to describe squishy things then you can use smooth in the sentence (ie, the UI is smooth, workflow is smooth, this ice cream is smooth).

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What the hell does that even mean?

That sales, as a function, have derivatives of all orders?

More importantly, regardless of whether they said small or smooth, the fact that they didn't give a number or at least a ballpark number (e.g. 'more than 1.5 mil") for the sell-out is indicative of sales not being all that good.

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