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Red light district: Apple Stores out of iPhone stock
The cupboard is bare, folks... Apple's iPhone retail availability page is showing a nearly clean sweep of sold-out stores, with only stores in Pittsburgh, PA and Portland, OR lighting up green for tomorrow. I'm starting to wish I had taken Laurie up on her offer to pick me up an extra one on Staten Island last week...Update: The website is designed to only display availability after 9 pm local time, when your regional Apple stores will have new inventory data. If you want to fool the site into displaying yesterday's data, set your computer clock to 9:01 pm.
Thanks, Tyler & Chris.
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BobbyW said 7:28AM on 7-05-2007
aapl: Next stop $200 per share.
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Leonard Nimrod said 7:59AM on 7-05-2007
Why can't I see the stores with available iPhones? I get a 2nd message stating to check back after 9pm where the store list should be.
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Adrian vG said 8:11AM on 7-05-2007
In your face, Steve Ballmer!
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AndyH said 8:49AM on 7-05-2007
Leonard Nimrod: Likely because Apple was updating their site when you tried to access it. I just checked the iPhone availability site a few moments ago, and it works for me. Give it another try.
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steve said 8:52AM on 7-05-2007
Anyone want me to pick up an iphone for them? Lucky me in pittsburgh.
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JS said 10:16AM on 7-05-2007
FWIW, I was at the SoHo store on Tuesday afternoon and they very clearly had plenty of iPhones behind the counter, though the site had said they were sold out on Monday night. So you ought to call around regardless of what the site says.
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Quix said 10:26AM on 7-05-2007
Aargh, I hope the iPhone isn't the new Wii, which *still* can't be found on the shelves 8 months after launch. I figured I'd just be able to walk into the Apple Store yesterday and pick one up, but the shipment they had received the night before was snatched up by the 50+ folks in line outside the doors when the store opened. On July 4th.
Then again, the pundits were saying you'd be able to walk into any store and grab a Wii off the shelf too...
Hope I don't have to wait much longer.
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crami44 said 10:57AM on 7-05-2007
FYI, the 5th ave store in NYC has a good amount of 8gb iPhones in stock. Just picked one up about 15 minutes ago.
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Raz4life said 11:49AM on 7-05-2007
I don't even live in the Twin Cities, but I've been to every one of those Apple Stores in the picture!
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Aroné said 1:07PM on 7-05-2007
Anyone in MN heard of where iPhones might still be available today (Thursday, 11:44 a.m.)?
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Garrick said 1:10PM on 7-05-2007
w00t...i picked mine up Tuesday, on the way home from work. big red lights all over MO this morning.
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jeffiel said 1:27PM on 7-05-2007
Not sure why they limit it to after 9PM, but if you're curious at other times of the day, just check the JSON file that the page loads with all the store data:
http://www.apple.com/retail/iphone/feeds/iphone_inv.json
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derek said 2:27PM on 7-05-2007
"Red light district"
Do you know what that means?
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Michael Rose said 4:31PM on 7-05-2007
13 -- yes, derek, I do know what it means. It was that or 'red light special' which didn't seem on target either.
For the record, I'm not suggesting that anyone prostitute themselves for an iPhone.
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Pmatt said 6:17PM on 7-05-2007
I just picked up an iPhone at the Seattle Apple store, which was showing red last night. I asked the sales guy about it, and he said that that status represents whether they would have phones when they open the doors at 9AM, which they in fact did not this morning. However, they receive their new shipments in the morning after they open, so by the time I got in around noon, they had iphones.
So really, a red light just means you need to call your local store and ask whether they have phones. It does not necessarily mean they will not have any that day.
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Leonard Nimrod said 3:56AM on 7-06-2007
Why can't I see the stores with available iPhones? I get a 2nd message stating to check back after 9pm where the store list should be.
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