“Perhaps in response to some recent reports noting that the shipping times for the iPhone 4 had slipped from 24 hours down to 1-3 days in the US, Apple has apparently removed shipping estimates from from their Online Store for all products,” AppleBitch reports.
“Lengthening of the shipping times for established Apple products could sometimes be used in the past to predict when a new product will launch. This move essentially now removes that predictor by simply stating that a product is in stock rather than the length of time it will take to ship,” AppleBitch reports. “Given that sales figures of a product can decrease dramatically when rumors of a refresh occur, Apple may be trying to remove this occurring.”
Full article with before and after screenshots here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]