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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: t2 who wrote (56933)	3/30/2001 11:27:01 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

T2 - re: "My feeling was that Pocket PCs are not in demand and therefore stores don't stock them." Exactly the opposite is true. The iPaq PocketPC has been backlogged since the first units were shipped. I wanted one and was told I had to pay for it and wait. I said can't I just order it and you tell me when it comes in? They said no, the stock disappeared so fast when it arrived that the only guarantee I would get one was if I had actually ordered and paid for it. The reason there is no stock is because it is pre-sold before it even comes in, and distributors are only getting half of what they order because demand is so high. Plenty of Palm and Handspring devices sitting on the shelves while this discussion was going on. And they are half the cost of the iPaq devices. But I want to be able to open Word and Excel attachments on my email and other things that require a real computer. Palm just doesn't do that.