Want an Apple iPhone in the U.S.? Don’t bother trying Apple’s online store which lists both the 8GB and 16GB iPhone models as “Currently Unavailable.”
Get ready: Apple’s next-gen iPhone doesn’t get more imminent than this!
The U.S Apple Store is here.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC – starts June 9th) sure seems far away, doesn’t it?
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Mike in Helsinki” for the heads up.]
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They dont want another Refund complaint on their hands…..They are going to make sure no one buys one within anyones return policy.
Expect FCC announcement anytime. Apple’s keeping the channel empty because they know that sales will automatically fall off.
MDW “say,” as in “it isn’t so!”
maria:
It’s a good thing you’re not in a room with any of us right now. We’d beat the livin’ snot out of you, tease.
MizuinOz:
I always enjoy reading your posts and getting a global perspective. Same goes for all of you who post from outside the U.S. Thanks for hanging around.
@aka
Thanks for that…
As you all know, when the iPhone is finally released in Oz (Australia for the uninitiated) all of the buttons will be upside down and the gestures will be back to front. Also Starbucks will not have iTunes deals and AT&T;will not have WiFi (thank God!) We are saddled with AT&T;’s evil twin Telstra. worse than Rogers and Telus in Canada – combined.
BUT we will not have a locked phone here (it is against the law) and I don’t have to pay for incoming calls.
AND we are getting most movie releases in the theatre the same as the States now (usually) but we are still a year behind on most television shows. (They have to translate into Australian)
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Cheers!
It is called bleeding the channel.
Th online store doesn’t have any because they are
a) low on stock because of demand and
b) what inventory they do have they are sending to the stores to clear their inventory by late may.
by then channel partners will be clear, and a week later or so we’ll hear about the new phone.
Apple bleeds their sales channels on almost every new product except the ipods. They will certainly do that with a launch as big as a new iphone
<quote>…but we are still a year behind on most television shows. (They have to translate into Australian)</quote>
Funny as hell… and actually very true. When I stepped off the plane in Sydney the very first time a few years ago and went to get a sandwich and coffee, it took me 5 minutes and lots of hand signaling to finally understand what the lady behind the counter was saying – and, No! I didn’t want butter on my sandwich or white coffee…”
Gimme an iPhone!
Apple is probably doing this so Steve Jobs doesn’t have to give people $100 who says ” I just bought the old iPhone within a month”.
Word here in Spain is that it is comming out on Tuesday with Telefonica. However, unless they bring out cheaper data plans I cant see it being a big success over here.
BUT PEOPLE!!!! Just because Apple may produce a 3G phone for Europe and Japan and for the people that live in cities here in the USA,….. us poor folk that live in the country and have to use only the old current iPhone system and will still need the old iPhone.
Now if there is a way to put both systems in the same phone, great, but I need a phone that works and all the rest that is iPhone. Web, maps, mail, etc. So what if its a little slow, I can live with slow but NO connection is a killer. My iPod touch is great but NO CONNECTION. since its got no phone.
Take a big breath folks. Its either next tuesday or in June. What do you think.???
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@MizuInOz. Shouldn’t be too long before the iPhone appears downunder (officially that is; I’ve seen a few hacked examples). Vodafone have pretty much promised to to release it this year.
Interestingly, across the ditch here in Godzone, Telecom have also hinted at supporting the iPhone when they (finally) roll out their 3G network.
It is called bleeding the channel.
Agreed. Which is the worse of these evils:
1. Having no product to sell over a limited time.
2. Having a channel stuffed with older product, that’s either unsellable, or sellable only at a steep discount (and loss). Which in turn marginalizes your own brand & product…
3. Having a just-in-time channel, with huge sour grapes from customers who bought the now-obsolete product literally yesterday.
Not a very appealing choice of options, IMO.
Either an update is imminent, or a couple cargo boxes of iPhones took a wrong turn somewhere in the Pacific.
This is very interesting. Especially when you consider the supposed memo ATT sent out last week.
actually I thought the early cut-offs for the iphone were kind of odd. They started in the beginning of April. 4 weeks later they are gone.
i just hope they do something unexpected I have $600 from bush to speed.
They will probably release the new phone with 3G and GPS. Then in June they will release a bunch of software for it.
1) They are building up excitement and momentum for the 3G in June
2) They want to deplete all existing stock
3) They need to separate the release by 30 days so people will not be able to return the current iPhone
Hmmmm let’s see. Today is May 10th. The WWDC 2008 starts June 9th. The difference is 30 days. This one is a complete no brainer guys.
Lots and lots of them in Germany!
I checked, there is also no iphone for the moment in Belgium!!!
Wooohaaa, my mac feels snappier!!
There are still places around USA and around the world where 3G is not an option. If Apple wants to expand to these markets (and I don’t see why Apple shouldn’t want to do that) then producing more EDGE iPhones is a must. Therefore, if it is correct that Apple is bleeding the channels we can only come to one conclusion. We will see a second generation of EDGE phones sometime next week. Possibly with 32GB or a 3 megapixel camera, and even lower prices.
Is Apple, the king of creating hype and free press, going to abandon a month’s worth of sales in doing so.
Or, or they going to release the version 2 hardware iPhone this Tuesday and then have a mass hype buildup for the software release for the hardware at the WWDC? I think the 30 day complainers of version 1 iPhones is low priority for Apple. I think an international world release of version 2 in simultaneous countries across the world would be highest priority. Leaving China out for now is probably necessary, but leaving out Japan would be terrible in an international release. Question is: Just how many iPhones can they make to supply an international version 2 hardware release? It is truly amazing that we either a month or 3 days out and they have been able to kee the next iPhone that secret. Truth is, noone really knows anything. A possible international release, and noone knows squat…simply amazing, Jobs.
kee=keep
I can’t believe it’s been a year and still no universal landscape keyboard.
I mean I can’t even view email in landscape mode? WTF?
At Macworld 2007 when Steve introduced it, a keynote I must have watched 20 times now mostly between January and June in anticipation of the iPhone, he touted that his wonderful mobile wouldn’t have keys and therefore wouldn’t be stagnant. Well one of the ways the iPhone could’ve exploited that idea is with its landscape keyboard. You can’t turn a BlackBerry 9000 on its side and instantly have spacier, more comfortable keys. That should’ve been a major point.
Instead, outside of Safari, I can’t type dick. Here I am at this moment typing whole paragraphs but if this was an email or text message I wouldn’t bother. It’s the most disappointing thing of all when it comes to the iPhone because it’s such a simple, obvious enhancement.
Why don’t they simply state that delivery is 30 days and then send the customer a new iPhone 2.0 after its release, simple.
So perhaps that May rumor is true. I’ve only seen one site mention that Apple may release it in May and now today’s news makes me believe it
3G iPhone in May, new mobile device at WWDC 2008?