“In mid-April we reported that due to constraints of replacement units for the discontinued white 16GB GSM iPhone 4, Apple Store Genius Bars were told to swap out these devices for a 16GB white iPhone 4S,” Mark Gurman reports for 9to5Mac.
“While Apple has caught up with that SKU, Apple is now facing constraints of the black 16GB iPhone 4 and black 32GB iPhone 4 (GSM/CDMA unit breakdown is unclear),” Gurman reports. “Like with the 16GB white iPhone 4 constraint situation of mid-late April, Genius Bars without stock of the black 16GB iPhone 4 and black 32GB iPhone 4 replacement units have been instructed to provide customers with comparable iPhone 4S replacements.”
Read more in the full article here.
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Oops. I just broke my iPhone 4.
I sur hope that this is related to Wal-Mart’s “pricing error” and UPS “big shipments.”
me too! Papa needs a new iPhone “5”!!
It just means that Apple doesn’t have any of these models in the refurbished stock. Remember that Apple does not make this model any more. The iPhone 4 is 8 GB only.
That reminds me, whatever happened to my iPod Nano replacement, I’m still waiting for the swap box to arrive.
I received my nano replacement months ago. You should follow up on your case number.
That is what happens when you have a lot of faulty iPhones… You can’t keep up to the demand to swap!
Darn shame you can’t swap that defective brain of yours.
Rats there in stock here!!!! 🙁