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I totally get this sentiment for a lot of early project. My point is that at this point in the cycle, they know they have market support and are focusing on making a lot of people a great product, so the incremental sale doesn't necessarily change that dynamic.

I didn't realize there would be a price difference (as mentioned by Paul below), which changes the dynamics somewhat – product execution risk + getting it a few months early vs ~$50.

I honestly don't get the drive to reserve one of these early. The way I see it, you won't get it for a year and they're making 15K of these. What's the harm in waiting until they launch? Assuming it all works out, they'll have all the production lines tooled up and ready to go, so you can get one much faster a year from now (and with much better understanding of how they work in practice). If it doesn't work out, then what are you missing out on?

Result number 4 for me, after Armageddon Racing, Omega Drive, and Worms 2: Armageddon

I think this idea that every product Steve Jobs released was 100% quality is largely wrong – people just choose to only remember the hits. Apple has always released early - largely polished, but rough around the edges. Remember the early days of OSX? tons of loose ends. The first iPhone? definitely had stability issues, missing huge core features e.g. MMS. AppleTV? Ping? XCode 4?

Interesting observation, any data behind this to get the magnitude of the effect?

I'm surprised this is buried by people suggesting Rails or Postgres or what have you. SQLAlchemy as good a SQL ORM as there is, and it isn't married to a framework, or a SQL backend.

If you like Python and want to use a SQL backend, SQLAlchemy is a good place to start.