The Palm Pre: in short supply?
(Credit: Palm)
Bloomberg reported Wednesday that the Palm Pre might be in short supply when it’s made available later this year.
Citing estimates by six market analysts, Bloomberg says the Pre will “debut with about 375,000 units in stock.” According to the report, that relatively small number (Apple sold 1 million iPhone 3G units in the first three days of availability last year) might have little to do with Palm’s output capacity and quite a bit to do with its desire to live up to the Pre’s hype.
“It’s important to have a success like selling out,” Hugues de La Vergne, a Gartner analyst, told Bloomberg. “The Pre has to live up to the hype or else they’ll lose their momentum to rival products coming out soon after.”
Neither Palm nor Sprint has confirmed plans to use a stock shortage to sell more Pre units. And don’t look for either company to confirm such a claim.
But what if this really is the company’s plan? Wouldn’t that annoy you?
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Originally posted at The Digital Home
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