As of 6am EDT Tuesday, all three models (8GB black, 16 GB black or white) of Apple’s hot-selling iPhone 3G “were sold out in 21 states, according to Jim Neal, a retired PR man living near Kansas City who took the time to check each of Apple’s 188 U.S. retail stores using the company’s iPhone availability widgets,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt blogs for Fortune. “‘All told,’ he writes, ‘117 Apple stores reported having sold out of all models and only 27 stores indicated they had all three models in stock.'”
“The states reporting no stock on hand were Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin,” Elmer-DeWitt reports.
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