possiblity of iPod shortage

Ipod shortages at Amazon.com appears to have spread the other distribution channels. After Shaw wu checks the report of retail sources he believes that Apple is experiencing an iPod shortage because of the demand is stronger and the company they may have anticipate. Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and Target are also now reporting iPod shortages after Amazon.com. It was not clear that people were responding to" Apple's latest crop of iPod". the usual saturation advertising for the iPod Nano and iPod Touch. With the stock market in the tank and people are worried about their jobs. They didnt know that this season was the best season for iPods. Wu thinks that costomers are making hard choices about what they were going to buy. Some analysists Apple thinks that they will only sell that they will only sell 18 or 19 million ipods.

Source: Tom, Krazit (2008, December 3). Analyst: iPod shortage spreading. Retrieved December 5, 2008, from cnet.com Web site: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10112373-37.html?tag=mncol