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iPhone Shortage Across U.S.

Monday March 31, 2008 10:24 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
Appleinsider reports that the supply of iPhones across the U.S. are near sold-out.

The sudden shortfall has been further confirmed by reports from AppleInsider readers. In several cases, their own investigations reported all stores in a given state running out, including Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Many if not all AT&T stores were also said to have run out of inventory.

The exact cause for the shortage is unknown, but could obviously represent short supply or significant demand.
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Grimace
Posted: 54 months ago
April 1 iPhone 3G!!!
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tdhurst
Posted: 54 months ago
Oh, GOD WHAT SHOULD WE DO?

Is it time to panic? Should I be hoarding food?

Screw it, I'm just going to take down my neighbor. I'm sure he's part of this.

Hoozah!
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vwlou89
Posted: 54 months ago
I was in the Tampa apple store over the weekend and they were sold out too...
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.Andy
Posted: 54 months ago
I've also not been able to find a single iPod Touch (besides the occasional 32gigger) in Sydney either in the last week. I have been keen to buy as I have a gift voucher but to no avail. An alternate explanation might be a shortage of flash memory again....

But a coincidence and new model iPhones would be better...
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Drumjim85
Posted: 54 months ago
you had to get this info from apple insider?? There have been at least two threads on this site saying this for at least 2 days now....
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joeshell383
Posted: 54 months ago
March 31, 2008: 11:52 PM EST

TAIPEI -(Dow Jones)- Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. (2317.TW), the world's largest contract electronics maker, plans to ship at least 10 million third-generation iPhones for Apple Inc. (AAPL), a person familiar with the situation told Dow Jones Newswires.

The person, who declined to be named, said Apple will likely launch the new generation iPhone as early as the second quarter.

"Hon Hai is ready to ship anytime. It is just waiting for the nod from Apple," said the person.

Last week, another person familiar with the situation told Dow Jones Newswires that Hon Hai had received an exclusive contract to make an advanced version of the iPhone.

Apple spokeswoman Jill Tan declined to comment Tuesday.

Apple, like many other big personal-computer and consumer-electronics brands, doesn't actually make most of its products. It hires manufacturing specialists - mainly companies from Taiwan that have extensive operations in China - to assemble its gadgets based on Apple's designs. They use parts from other outside suppliers, many of which also are from Taiwan and elsewhere in Asia.

Bank of America said in a recent note that Apple is expected to launch a high- speed wireless version of the iPhone in the second quarter and produce as many as 8 million of the devices in the third quarter.

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200803312352DOWJONESDJONLINE000891_FORTUNE5.htm
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lesterdiamond
Posted: 54 months ago
According to a sales associate, apparently every Apple store in Florida is sold out of iPhones. What gives...:eek: Refresh imminent?
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SamNeeds
Posted: 54 months ago
A shortage nationwide? I can't see how a manufacturer as big as Apple (and it's suppliers) would let that happen. I'd say something is coming. Very soon.
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daveman235
Posted: 54 months ago
i just want to remind everyone.... today is tuesday!


Maybe we're in for a tuesday surprise? A new iphone perhaps?


Keep your fingers crossed!
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zainjetha
Posted: 54 months ago
since its not four yet in america we woulnt know - let me see if apple store goes down... what time would store go down?
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