Originally Posted by Kupe:
Since the Pre missed Sprint's first quarter 1-1.5 million unit sales planning figures considerably (Link), may have matched the lowered 400-500 unit sales estimates (still a mystery though Link), yet still maintains its actual sales figures as something akin to a state secret, this sudden plummet in pricing (after an unprofitable quarter) is likely explained as a way to boost market share by stimulating the Pre's lagging sales figures.
BTW - what did you mean by: "the Pre hit it's first quarerer sales expectations, since it wasn't available for sale until the second quarter." Palm's September report was for the period 1 June - 31 August which coincides with Palm's first fiscal quarter for their 2010 business year, which also happens to be the first business quarter in which the Pre was sold. What were you trying to say here?
I'll answer the last part first.
I was being facetious. It was never clearly defined who "they" was (were?), but since the OP mentioned possible new models, and Sprint doesn't manufacture the Pre, I was assuming "they" was Palm. I wastalking about
Palm's first quarter, not Sprint's.
Your links are to analysts web sites, I've never seen anything "official" that said Palm expected to sell 1 to 1.5 million in the first quarter of sales; even the first
full quarter. We're not even sure, at this point, whether it's Palm or Sprint that's doing the price-cutting.
At any rate, there are as many analysts that are impressed with the (estimated) sales of the Pre as there are unimpressed. I've seen few that called the sales "poor".
Of course, web sites are full of folks that wish to protray the sales that way...