Masakuni

Ugh, those look so good, but of COURSE they do this right after I get mine....

Can I get one of these as a dev kit? They haven't responded to my application.

and they have a totally cool and not at all abusive class action waiver and arbitration clause in their T&C, too

Without making any comment on the moral worth of Analogue's management, I think you've got an incorrect notion of the amount of supply/capacity Analogue has available. At this exact moment the Pocket, the regular pocket, is sold out, and has been since before even the "limited edition" glow in the dark run.

As an outside observer, Analogue seems pretty clearly to me to still be badly supply constrained. Given that there were no Pockets shipping all year until August, then an entire year's worth of orders all shipped rapidly over the course of August, and then the regular Pocket became unavailable again after which there was one limited run of the glowy ones and one limited run of the clear ones— the evidence seems to imply they are only able to make these devices in bursts or in low numbers, and after fulfilling 2023 orders they decided to do two runs with unusual plastic before returning to servicing normal orders. If the low runs of the unusual plastic or the unavailability of the normal units were, either of these things, an attempt to gouge people rather than a sign that their manufacturing capacity is actually limited, my assumption is that they would be charging more than they are for these limited runs. The limited edition Pockets only cost $30 more. If Analogue had the ability to make as many Pockets as they wanted and were using scarcity to extract cash, then they could make much more money by simply making enough regular Pockets to satisfy all demand than they could by charging a little bit more for a run with a different plastic.