“Today, 89 Apple stores — still a majority — have iPhones in stock, but 37 of those stores with stocks today are different ones than they were yesterday. Said another way, each store seems to be having a regular cycle of selling out and getting resupplied,” Carl Howe reports for Blackfriars’ Marketing.
“We theorize that Apple is trying to spread its limited manufacturing capacity around the country in fairly equal measure. Our proof? After being out of stock of iPhones since the launch day almost two weeks ago, the two stores in Hawaii now have iPhones in stock,” Howe reports.
Blackfriars’ has created a very nice live map that shows iPhone availability at US Apple Retail Stores at a glance.
See the Apple Store iPhone Availability Map here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Jennifer” for the heads up.]
Very nice map indeed, were it not for the large number of people — mostly men — with varying degrees of classic red/green colorblindness. For them (which includes me), this map is completely useless.
That is odd…there is a marker in British Colombia (Canada)…although it is red (out of iPhones).
To my knowledge, the iPhone hasn’t been released in Canada yet. Even more odd…when you click on it, it says Sapporo.
Somebody at Blackfriars needs a geography lesson!
If you take a close look at the map linked to above, one thing is clear to me: the most critical big-city locations are getting the most generous supply of iPhones, and smaller cities and, if you will forgive me, second-tier markets are getting smaller allocations. Call it elitist if you will, but it’s in Apple’s interest to get the early batches of iPhones into the hands of people, especially celebrities and VIPs, in cities that will generate media buzz and visibility. So, if you look at the map, you’ll see that cities like San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami all have available stock in the major Apple Stores, while smaller locations in Virginia, Minnesota, Delaware, etc., may currently be out of stock.
It’s just an observation. I’m sure this will change soon, but for the moment, that’s the reality of things. Look for photos of celebrities in the tabloids with their iPhones soon, if you haven’t already. That’s how a zeitgeist gets born.
Oh, and that “will it blend” video link in the post above is hilarious!
A pop-up bubble without having to click on those small, smashed together dots would help A LOT!
Try expanding the map and zone in on your particular area!
So, if this was posted this afternoon, and the map is updated as of “8:45 a.m.” today,, and there’s supposedly stock, then why do all teh markers look red to me? Everywhere. Not a green one at all.
I do like seeing where Apple’s stores are geographically. I think Ohio needs more, though.
All red. And I wanted to upgrade to the 8GB and give my 4GB to my girlfriend.
LOL Helio set up its own compare chart with the iPhone
http://compare.helio.com/
We’re glad the AT&T iPhone is finally here. After all, how else would we be able to show off some of the Ocean’s coolest features without comparing it to another one of the planet’s most innovative devices? Ocean meet iPhone. iPhone, meet Ocean.
@kennyyy921
seems like a biased list (of course).
Where is the screen size. (iPhone= huge Ocean= frikken tiny (great for those mobile games eh?)
Hmmm.. The rest of the world is still blank. No thing att all…
We need iPhones ASAP!
Did you ever fart so hard you ended up in another Apple store?
Yea, the Helio, I saw that yesterday. What’s missing?
Screen size/resolution
Memory Size
Size and weight compared to iPhone
Of interest: Two keyboards are better! Where’s Wifi? What’s the OS?
wow! look at that ocean phone! forget the iPhone i am buying that! craptastic interface, sliding moving parts, tiny buttons for typing that i can’t get to without making the phone pose as a transformer, and a huge 200mb memory!
plus, it supports usb external devices, so i can carry around a terrabyte drive and power supply!
zomgl33tphone!
yeah SUPER biased, lol i found it amusing that they neglected (as you said buster) the screen sizes, operating systems, internal memory, wifi, ect. ect. they even have a link to send the comparison to your freinds =P losers lol
Looks like they have a good supply around Redmond.
That was not my post at 2:22PM
(though it was funny)
@ BillyBoy, who wrote: “Very nice map indeed, were it not for the large number of people — mostly men — with varying degrees of classic red/green colorblindness. For them (which includes me), this map is completely useless.”
Here’s a fix, take a screenshot of the image (apple-ctrl-shift-4), then open Graphic Converter and open image from clipboard (apple-J). The same image should appear, then go to Picture:Brightness/Contrast and move all the hue sliders to +43. This will cause the red to shift to a lighter color (nearly white) and the green to shift to a darker color (nearly black), which should be differentiable to you. Hope that helps.
If this is a common problem you run into on website, you could most likely automate this process with Automator.
or better yet, switch to white-on-black with command-control-alt-8 or go to Universal access erence pane for more settings
Oups.. that was “Universal access PREFerence pane”
Actually, it would be worthwhile if the site also displayed what kinds of iPhones are available (4GB or 8GB).
See if pressing
Control-Option-Apple 8
helps the red-green dots become clear.
the two stores in hawaii are stocked but other people on other islands still have to buy a $100 ticket to go there and buy one cuz the at&t stores dont have them
Nice! there’s an Apple Store in the middle of the Coastal Mountains in B.C. just by the Alaskan Border. When you click on it you get this:
“Sapporo
札幌市中央区南一条西 3-8-20
QB 札幌
011-209-8200″
interesting….!?
Not one AT&T store here in Australia
Hmmmmm…. bugger!
Why, the bloody hell not!
Maybe Mr. Solomon Trujillo (Head of the largest mobile phone rapest in AU and formerly of AT&T {CEO -U.S. West Communications} Same thing) will give Steve a good enough “job” to get it here –
BUT wait – Telstra is 3G and one of the fastest networks in the work!!! So the iPhone won’t work here… Damn!!!
Hmmm… go figure…
MDN = figure!