Check iPhone availability at your local Apple Store

Apart from the obvious UI faux pas (green/red) this widget is completely useless. Every store in the world seems to have the 4GB model (even my local AT&T store has a bunch). I want an 8GB. The only alternative is to call up the stores and so far each one (all WA and OR) have none. If you have two models and you want to provide a means of checking stock...how about providing a red and green dot for each model (okay, okay, tick and a cross for the colorblind, jeez, I thought it was only 5%, do all colorblind people read TUAW!).

lol--

I was just complaining about the dots, too! I can't see the difference AT ALL. I guess it's pretty common for guys have this kind of color blindness.

ah, well. it's nice to know I am not the only one, to be honest.
mike

Elmo's already got one:
http://flickr.com/photos/82098553@N00/655332401/

That's fine, and of course the person could oh, sit in the back seat on the driver's side or something. The point is that I don't feel like the world needs to be turned on it's ear over something like that. The original comment made on this subject was not as not stated as a way to encourage innovation and accessibility, and that's really what I was addressing. My sister is in a wheel chair and so I am acutely aware of the limitations (or lack thereof) of those who are disabled. I'm simply stating that there are some who take it to extremes. I'm not (nor did I ever) say that blind people shouldn't want, own, or enjoy an iPhone. I simply feel that Dave's comment was out of line, and that it is unreasonable to expect a company to design a product taking into account every possible malady that may strike someone.

BTW Avi, your explanation seems like it would be the right one.

I'm not going to insult your intelligence by listing all the ways someone could use an ATM without being in the driver's seat.

It has nothing to do with butterflies or with "touchy feely" or whatever feeling you're trying to evoke. If you can make a technology accessible, you should. The point is - you can't assume what people want to do with your product. This is a general marketing principle, not just an accessibility issue.

Who are you to decide that a blind person shouldn't want an iPhone? Who are you to decide which things someone can or can't do? People with disabled legs can dance and play basketball. I've seen a blind boy that can ride a skateboard. It's not for you to say what disabled people can or should do because of or in spite of their disability.

And once again, bringing to light inaccessibility is desirable. Nobody's demanding anything, or threatening lawsuits. I hadn't even thought about accessibility of a touch screen, but now I have. That's a good thing.

Not to troll, but I think the braille on ATMs is an efficiency / volume purchasing thing more than a blind accessability thing. It's probably easier to just make all ATMs & ATM buttons braille-friendly than to make certain ones w/ braille and certain ones w/o with the potential mistake that a ATM sans braille gets installed at a non-drive through.

As far as the iPhone being ADA friendly, dream on.

Dan,
Because it's super convenient to reach over the driver to get to the keypad. The point of my comment was that there are some things that people who are disabled in certain ways just cannot take advantage of. I think it's great that there are things out there that adapt for the use of the handicapped, but in this touchy, feely, butterflies, and sunshine world there's just some stuff that some people won't be able to do.

i just sent a tip over to engadget .. but .. after one of the ATT stores that i called said they would NOT carry the phone tomorrow even though the iPhone locator says they will (3 times in fact) i decided to do some calling around .. and the results are scary.

any one who wanted to take that back door route to an ATT store better make sure they hit their official corporate store and not a franchise booth or location as (of right now) the 6 stores i have called from ATTs list in the chicagoland area all tell me that they will not be carrying the iPhone but the corporate store will.

point of all of this is that they appear on the list when they shouldnt.

#15: They sure do: Macs, iPods, Apple TVs and now iPhones.

All of these devices are computers. Further, all of Apple's non-Mac devices actually *need* a computer for half their functionality (loading music from iTunes, synching contacts from Address Book, etc.).

The Mac is fine; the introduction of a non-Mac device is only bringing more attention to them.

And for the AT&T stores:
http://www.wireless.att.com/find-a-store/iphone/