iPhones May be Scarce Another Month
6:58 am, July 18th, 2008, Lonnie Lazar
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster says because Apple “knocked it out of the park on the first weekend” supply chain shortages could force iPhone 3G customers to scramble to find a phone or delay their purchase into August, when beefed up orders should replenish supply.
Apple’s iPhone availability tool indicated yesterday just over 25% of the compnay’s 188 US retail stores had any models of the iPhone 3G in stock, with the most-hard-to-find 16GB model in black available in only 18 stores countrywide. Only 13 stores reported all three models on hand, while the apparently least-popular 16GB model in white could still be found in 46 stores.
AT&T company spokesman Wes Warnock said Tuesday their 1,200 retail stores are also nearly out of the iPhone. “As we’re able to start restocking our stores, we will do so as fast as we can.”
Via Macworld
Posted by Lonnie Lazar in Retail Stores, iPhone | Comment on this article
[...] stores in Sand Francisco and Burlingame, but they are sold out also.As Lonnie reports below, iPhones are available at only one in four stores, and Piper analyst Gene Munster thinks it will take Apple a month to restock.Looks like the iPhone [...]
Cult of Mac - News and opinion about the Mac and iPod communities » Blog Archive » Last iPhone 3G in South San Francisco Goes to Microsoft Guy — Are iPhones Selling Out?, on July 18th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
I work close to the Burlingame store. Over the last 2 days there have been lines each morning, at lunch it is clear, then in the afternoon there are lines again. It seems the stores get stocked with iphones randomly throughout each day.
Earle Peterson, on July 19th, 2008 at 6:22 am