Comments on: Manipulating the Palm Pre supply is just wrong

Palm might try to intentionally keep Pre supplies low to build hype for the product. Don Reisinger believes that's a big problem.

[AppleSuxLeo]

Wow ! Apple would NEVER do such a thing ! LOL
Having Jimmy Fallon , Bono (one of the world`s most influential people) , and Angelina Jolie use your product (Palm Pre) and show it off doesn`t hurt either.
MSNBC showed off the Palm Pre several times with great accolades also ;)

[stigmattaman]

You're a silly human being Don.

[AppleSuxLeo]

Maybe he is really just a human bean ? LOL

[BuildaTire]

I think it's a good idea to roll out phones as they're are needed. rather than flood the market with phones that no one is going to buy. Especially for Palm, they have to be economical.

[Last_of_the_Gray]

This could be an economical problem.
How many poorly designed devices have you seen on the store shelves. Why would you want to see more of them.

You could see this an evil choice... but look at the economic point of view. They can test a market with a small number, and if it is actually really good, then they can unload them on the shelves later, and there will actually be a demand for them. If it doesn't hit well, then they didn't waste their money, and they didn't waste your time.

[sting7k]

Totally agree Don, this practice is very shameful. If anything Palm should look at how Apple had TONS of supply of both the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G. Yes supplies varried from place to place but after getting on AT&T's waiting list at both launches it took 1 day to get my original iPhone and then 3 days to get my iPhone 3G.

I don't think Nintendo was holding back on their supply; from what I was seeing the demand was real and stores I talked too last year were getting 50-100 of them 2 twice a week and were selling out within hours.

I don't think this would be good for Palm or Sprint to do. The cell phone market moves at light speed, and they should be aware of how many people may be upset that they have to wait and may just go pick up an iPhone or something else instead; there are A LOT of sweet phones coming this summer.

[atlonglast]

Yet another article based on non-fact. Wow, this is just embarrassing. Hopefully readers are a little brighter than this.

[dsmith4321]

I couldn't get a Samsung Instinct about a year ago due to shortages. By the time I could get one I didn't because it was half baked and because I was annoyed with them for not having it available.

In the world of phones they can get away with this only if they have a true killer device. That said, in the world of phones they can only get away with this for a few months before another devices supplants it.

[AppleSuxLeo]

Palm is upping its game with a new budget phone rumored to launch this fall on AT&T. Deemed to be another iPhone rival with a smaller price tag, the Palm Eos (or Pixie/Castle) sports a size 0 silhouette in a candy-bar form factor with a non-slideout QWERTY keyboard.

Preliminary specs leaked by Engadget point that Eos will cost $99 (after a $250 rebate) and will come with 4GB of on-board storage (Pre will come with 8GB), a 2-megapixel camera with flash and video capture (3-megapixels on the Pre), A-GPS and Palm's WebOS (which will debut on the long-expected Palm Pre).

[elllroy]

just a reminder to everybody: the pre is vaporware (or a takeover bait if you like). it dosen't have a release date or a price. and oh, no journalist ever had the chance to actually use it.

[ofmyony]

Palm can count me out. So I guess Palm knows what it's doing. Their handset is just hype and Sprint as a provider, now way!

[dave181]

Especially given Verizon's pre-availability announcement, I imagine that Sprint would be very unhappy with Palm if they were to deliberately and artificially constrain supply at any point during their exclusive period.