Apple Sells Out of Initial iPhone 4 Shipment

Bummer for those who were having technical troubles and couldn't order one early this morning. I couldn't get Apple's site working at all to pre-order. Would keep timing out. Bet this is going to be like the iPad or worse where there's not sufficient stock until two months after it's launch. So probably late August before you can walk into any Apple Store and pick one up without a reservation or pre-order.

wow, that is impressive. One can only guess how many iPhones they had set aside for preorders. Even more impressive this is only BLACK...

it took me 3 weeks to get iPhone 3GS last June/July.

so i will make the bet that if you didnt preorder an iPhone 4 and you dont want to camp overnight...you probably aren't getting one till second week of July or later.

Expected that after this morning's craziness... I wonder how many were available for pre-order total...

Do we have any idea of how large this initial shipment was? I mean, just how fast are these things selling?

I tried all ****ing morning to preorder, but could not. Finally around 5PM today I put in an in store pickup request. I got the confirmation page, but i never got a confirmation email. I decided to try and preorder one about an hour ago and the preorder page said 6/24 ship date.

I got into checkout and it still said 6/24.

After i submitted the order the page then stated 7/2.

At no point during the order process was 7/2 mentioned. its only after i hit submit order, that i saw it. I cant even call apple support.

The order status page on apple.com won't load so i have no idea whats up with my delivery preorder or my in store pickup.

WTF?

Can't wait to see some numbers on how many got pre-ordered. This is really impressive. People must really want their FaceTime Chat.

I can't wait to find out how many they "Pre-sold".

Coachingguy

Do we have any idea of how large this initial shipment was? I mean, just how fast are these things selling?

Based on history, I'll bet the initial shipment was somewhere between 500,000 and 1,000,000 units, probably closer to a million. Wouldn't be surprised if Apple sells 4 million units of iPhone 4 by the end of the year. Time to buy more Apple stock!

I tried all ****ing morning to preorder, but could not. Finally around 5PM today I put in an in store pickup request this afternoon, i never got a confirmation email. I decided to try and preorder one about an hour ago and the preorder page said 6/24 ship date.

I got into checkout and it still said 6/24.

After i submitted the order the page then stated 7/2.

At no point during the order process was 7/2 mentioned. its only after i hit submit order, that i saw it. I cant even call apple support.

The order status page on apple.com won't load so i have no idea whats up with my delivery preorder or my in store pickup.

WTF?

Apparently you had to clear your internet cache to see the new date.