Apple Could Be Running Out of iPods, Analyst Says

One analyst suspects that Apple may be undergoing what he describes as an "iPod shortage" this Holiday season, Cnet reports.
Shaw Wu (of the Kaufman Bros. market analysis firm) disclosed in a statement that, judging from insider retailer reports, he believes stores like Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Target are experiencing this "shortage." Buyers found Amazon.com to be under-supplied with the media players as early as the Saturday following Black Friday.
This news comes as a surprise, considering, and probably attributable to, the current state of the economy. Wu suspects, and we tend to agree, that Apple -- in light of bleak Holiday shopping forecasts -- did not foresee the demand for iPods approaching current numbers. Wu suspects that Apple, before holiday shopping is all said and done, will unload 21 million iPods. If they can supply them, that is.
While we acknowledge the inconvenience potential iPod buyers could encounter if their store were to run out of the media players, we also have a problem with the term 'shortage' in its application to this development.
When crops fail, there's a food shortage. When rain doesn't fall, there's a water shortage. Heck, when oil wells dry up, there's a petroleum shortage. But when you can't buy an iPod, that's just the store running out of some stuff you want. [From: Cnet]





























