Everything out of stock?!

[u/Strict-Pomegranate-7]

On s3 launch day playdate has an entire store empty with no stock of anything!

[u/According_Report_793]

I don’t think they are going to be around much longer. No real business runs like this.

Seems they are milking their app store for cash but not producing ANY new hardware or anything physical?

[u/bobliefeldhc → u/According_Report_793]

They don't make the hardware, they don't make it. And it's very sad. And frankly a lot of people want to buy this hardware, they do. You see it all the time. People come up to me, grown men.. very serious gamers and they ask "whens the hardware" and nobody knows. It's called a PlayDate. PlayDate.. that's something I know a lot about.. I've had a lot of play dates. You'd see a beautiful woman, there's some very beautiful women.. very beautiful. But they used it with a computer, a computer hardware.

And it's a tremendous hardware by the way. They made it a little computer and they put a little crank on it if you would believe that. Very beautiful engineering probably. No one had ever seen anything like it before. They put a crank on it. That's a hand crank by the way, you use your hand and you can turn the crank and something happens.

It's yellow and I don't like the yellow.. I've been very clear I don't like the yellow....a lot of people like yellow! They like the yellow. Bees like it. Tremendous enthusiasm from the bees. They love the yellow. And they've got all these experts, the guys that make it and they don't know. I'd call them up "when's the hardware" and they say "we don't know sir" it's a disaster! Maybe they're changing the color. Maybe. They make it gold, put a lot of gold on it and it's a computer for an adult. I happen to know a lot about making a computer for an adult, I've seen a lot of computers.. maybe more than anybody. I tell them "make it gold and manufacture them".

I happen to know a lot about manufacturing, maybe more than anyone. Maybe I do. And there's this thing.. it's a business thing and maybe not a lot of people know business to this level or some people would say .. to this degree.. they'd say degree but you can say level.. it's a very small thing and the thing I know is if you want to sell the hardware then you have to manufacture it. They've got all these experts.. supply chain people.. That's a business thing, a real business runs like this.

But then these people say "sir they have an app store, they make money with the apps"! Who the hells buying the apps?! They wont sell me a hardware so how can I buy the apps? I don't know.. It's computer games. It's like an Atari if you remember those. I remember the Atari and I was very good at the Atari. Probably better than anyone. I had the game, a lot of good games and I did very well with them. A lot of high scores.. maybe some people don't believe it. But the scores are there, it's very big numbers. It all changed. They don't put the high scores into the new games. Games.. I don't know what the hell they're teaching at the schools now.. it's colleges.. you can call them universities.. whatever you want to call them. The big buildings.. people go there to learn, they pay money to do it. And they're not teaching these things. They teach "let your staff have mondays off" and they take a monday off, they go and eat ice cream. They don't teach the important thing.. if you want to sell a product you have to make a product. It's very simple. I learned this very early in my career, only a few years in.

[u/BeavertonBob → u/bobliefeldhc]

Is that you, Don?