Pre Launch Supply: Sellout Imminent?
Woody tips us off to this Bloomberg article, wherein they polled a half dozen analysts and asked them what they figured the inventory of the Pre at launch would look like. The median answer: 375,000. We'd already heard from an insider that stock might be so thin that Sprint Employees have been told they will need to wait a couple months in order to get one for themselves.
Bloomberg speculates that we could be looking at a sellout situation, suggesting that Palm is intentionally keeping the stockpile low to "enhance its allure." Maybe they're right, but we're thinking Palm is more likely to want to sell as many of these as humanly possible as quickly as possible.
Here's the question, then: how many Palm Pre phones do you think Sprint and Palm will sell in, say, the first month?
Thanks, woody!
