We geeks have our own vocabulary that is confusing at times and downright meaningless at others. Take one term that I’m starting to see more and more on the web- pre-sale. This term is often used to get geeks all worked up by pointing out that a lust-worthy device may actually even be sold soon. It has most recently been used in by the leaked information that T-Mobile will start offering the first Google Android phone for "pre-sale in September". Take a look at that phrase for a moment. It means absolutely nothing. T-Mobile may start taking orders for the phone in September but offering it for "pre-sale"? The phone doesn’t exist today but even if it did it technically is already a "pre-sale" device. Taken at it’s base value the term pre-sale simply means anything that has not sold yet. You could say that everything that exists is a "pre-sale" item until it sells and then it is simply a "sold" item. Pre-sale. Anything to work us geeks up.
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