“Apple is quietly denying requests for employee vacations during the second week of October, hinting that the company currently anticipates an influx of customers to its stores around that time related to availability of its new iOS 5 and fifth-generation iPhone products,” Kasper Jade reports for AppleInsider.
“More specifically, the iPhone maker has in some locations blacked out vacation time for employees from October 9th through 12th and October 14th through 15th, according to people familiar with the matter,” Jade reports. “Assuming hints of an iOS 5.0 release around Monday, October 10th prove accurate, the second block of retail blackout dates — October 14th and 15th — could signal availability of the fifth-generation iPhone hardware by that Friday.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
October 16; because I said so.
Oct 4 for iOS 5 and iPhone 5 intro and online ordering, following week for availability/shipping. (the blackout dates)
Whenever these rumors of blackout days go up they’re NEVER true, at least not at the retail level… The only retail black out is Thanksgiving to New Years every year for holiday. So feel free to disregard them because they’re complete BS
So explain why Apple blocked vacations from the end of January 2011 until early February 2011. And guess what came out early February? iPhone 4 on Verizon
I worked for Apple Retail up until a month ago. I assure you those dates were not actually blacked out. My brother got married in Vegas that first weekend and I took the entire week off.
I’m blacking out from all these rumors.