Apple is bringing the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus to 36 new countries by the end of this month. The Cupertino company today confirmed that the devices will be available in Monaco on October 17 — the same day they go on sale in China and India — and then in Israel on October 23.
In addition to Monaco and Israel, iPhone 6 and 6 Plus will expand its availability across Europe, the Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa. Here’s the complete list of countries who can expect to see the devices this month:
- Friday, October 17: China, India and Monaco
- Thursday, October 23: Israel
- Friday, October 24: Czech Republic, French West Indies, Greenland, Malta, Poland, Reunion Island and South Africa
- Thursday, October 30: Bahrain and Kuwait
- Friday, October 31: Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Estonia, Greece, Guam, Hungary, Iceland, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macau, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, South Korea, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine and Thailand
By the end of this month, Apple’s newest smartphones will be available in a total of 69 countries and territories around the world. By the end of 2014, the company hopes to increase that number to 115 — making this the fastest iPhone rollout since the device made its debut back in 2007.
The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have already been big successes for Apple, with a record number of pre-orders taken when the handsets first became available on September 12. A week later, when the devices went on sale in 10 countries, Apple sold a whopping 10 million units during the first three days alone.
In China, where pre-orders have officially begun ahead of this week’s launch, more than 20 million iPhones have already been claimed so far.
Source: BusinessWire
Killian Bell is a freelance writer based in the U.K. He has an interest in all things tech and also covers Android over at CultofAndroid.com. You can follow him on Twitter via @killianbell.
8 responses to “iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus coming to 36 new countries this month”
Malta yaaaaaaaayyyy FINALLY
No Indonesia!
no Pilipinas?, haayyyy
Ha! All these nations, yet, apple is STRUGGLING to meet the demands of their orders here in the USA. Mind you, their products are designed by Apple in California but made in China!!?!? What a joke.
Most of the world’s product are manufactured in China or Asian countries, because their labor cost is less. If they will manufactured iDevices in USA, then they have to give billions of dollars to labors, in turn, it will increase the cost of product.
I’m 100% aware of this. My concern is that Apple is pushing the new iPhones to China and India alone, who have a respective population of 2 billion plus; China alone has 20+ million pre orders for the iPhone 6 and the USA had 4 million. Yet, China can’t supply Apple’s home country to meet the demand of the device.
I think all of you are missing the finer details (minutia) in that at peak production – both TSMC and Samsung could only produce 250K a day which amounts to 7.5M a month. Factor in decreases because of defects and other variables, then the output is just that. With pre-orders in China alone (if true) around 20M, then there’s a huge deficit to be made up. Compound that with over 70 plus countries now in distribution, then it will take a while before Apple could churn out enough to satisfy all those demand. Even at 9/10M monthly output which is rougly 300K+ per day, they would be hard-pressed to quench the thirst for iPhone 6/6+. Samsung should take advantage of the demand and start pushing out – by the ten of millions – Galaxy and Note phones and call them shipped. ;)
Yaaayyyyyyyyy ISRAEL !!!!!!!