{"id":1473,"date":"2009-05-22T09:43:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T17:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2009-05-22T09:44:37","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T17:44:37","slug":"palm-pre-shortage-planned-ho-yea-you-betcha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/palm-pre-shortage-planned-ho-yea-you-betcha\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm Pre shortage planned?  Ho yea, you betcha!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Give me a break. \u00a0Like we should be even slightly surprised that Palm will not have enough units for initial release.. \u00a0Better yet, I read in PC Magazine that the planned (instant discount of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perivision.net\/wordpress\/?p=1470\">$100 dollar loan to Palm<\/a>) is only for the first\u00a04,250 units in stock. \u00a0Nation wide folks. \u00a0You KNOW they will be gone in an instant.<\/p>\n<p>So why is Palm doing this?? 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