That kind of deliberate ambiguity also backfires, though.

"My computer is too slow. I know it's an i9 -- whatever that means. But all these new ones are also i9s. You'd think they'd have something newer than that in the past 5 years. Oh well. I guess I can't get something better than what I have, so I'll just have to wait until something better comes along."

This results not in moving old products out of warehouses, but instead in moving zero products at all.