Palm Pre's Limited Availability

In this video, I share my thoughts on the possible ramifications of Palm's decision to limit productivity of their newest smartphone, the Pre. I've never liked the concept of limiting inventory for the sake of artificial demand (I'm looking at you Nintendo) and I'm seeing similar behavior from Palm. It's still early, and I don't have proof, but I have a gut feeling this may not be a good thing for Palm. Check out the video for more on the topic.

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Science & Technology

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• palm
• pre
• inventory
• nintendo
• demand
• opinion
• speculation
• bwana
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[madman720ap]

Hey Bwana, I've been watching your videos for a while now. I've noticed that you use the word "notorious" a lot. You use this word at the wrong time. Notorious means to be known for a bad reason. Just saying...

[iobuffa]

adjective

Known widely and unfavorably: common, infamous. See knowledge/ignorance.

Widely known and discussed: famed, famous, leading, popular, well-known. See knowledge/ignorance. :)

[TheBmoneydragon]

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[TheBmoneydragon]

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[Lkjshd66]

Your a Partner?!

[prthugprince1546]

Response to RileysWill WHAT CAN I SAY YOU ARE RIGHT BUT REMEMBER PALM PRE IS ON THE 4G NETWORK AND ALSO RUNS 800MEGAHURTZ IPHONE HAS 300MGHRTZ I FEEL SAD ABOUT WHAT U ARE SAYING AND YES ITS BEEN PROVEN IVE USED MY WIFI AGAINST AN I PHONE SPEED USING 3G

AND YES MY PHONE STILL BEAT THE INTERNET SPEED ON IPHONE WHAT ALSO CAN I TELL YOU PALM PRE U CAN COSTUM MAKE UR PRE THREW SOFTWARE =)

[KMSalex]

the only proplom with that is sprit coverage is low just about every where i mean i live in cental jersey and even when i go to new yourk i never get more then 4 bars 2 on avarage.

[TheJustinCooley]

i just got tha new iphone

[xbox360707]

my sprint store had 40 palm pre's om release

[jbrozenick]

I think the pre will do well. We are 3 weeks after launch and my local sprint store got 40 on launch day and have been getting about 20 each week after that, and they still have a waiting list a mile long.

They are selling like hot cakes, and I think it will be enough to keep Palm in the game, thus allowing them to continue supporting and improving WebOS thus giving iphone some real solid competition.

Any mature iphone user would understand how this is a good thing, and be happy about it.

[merda85n]

Where did you get that info 3 units per store, all my local stores had around 60 units each, and sold out within 3 hours hear in st.louis.

I just went out today to try and get another palm pre for my step dad, after hearing new shipments are in 2 days ago, but was out of luck, they were all sold out in 4 different stores.

Now i know some areas may get 3 phones but thats only the areas where sprints coverage is low.