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07/06/2007, 2:05am, EDT
Friday, July 6th
iPhones flood east coast, west coast dry
While iPhone availability has improved dramatically since launch day on the east coast, with most localities having ample stock of the device, the west coast is still parched with most Apple retail outlets still sold out. A check of Apple's availability page shows the no California, Washington, or Oregon stores currently have stock of the iPhone. New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts stores, meanwhile, are relatively flush. Southern states are mixed, with Florida and Georgia offering decent stock but Texas remaining sold out statewide. Users searching for online purchase are out of luck too: the online Apple Store is still showing a 2-4 week wait for both 4GB and 8GB models.
Apple has reportedly sold between 500,000 and 700,000 iPhone since launch, though some analysts were expecting a million. Regardless, the sales figures crush any previous AT&T offering, including the wildly popular Motorola RAZR. AT&T Retail stores sold out of their initial stock within hours of launch. See our overview of the iPhone's functionality.
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And with floods in the east, and the west socked in an drought of major proportions, I think this is just more proof of the effects of global warming!
The iPhone is an Apple product and tied to the Mac in so many ways, I love the coverage.
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Please quit whining about MacNN covering those topics that MacNN has chosen to cover. if you don't like a topic MacNN is covering, don't read it.
Maybe that million includes some people who didn't buy an iPhone last weekend, but bought other phones. Or it includes people who activated twice (due to issues the first time, or that the first was later killed because you can't transfer over a business account) or loads of other reasons (not the least of which is people pulling numbers out of their ass, which is where most, if not all, of the numbers that we've seen have come from.
And are you counting the half-dozen people who've returned their iPhone because it doesn't come in a cool 'zune-like Brown' color? I didn't think so...
And, everyone, then please try to remember thiis statement when you're ready to complain about MacNN posting some news about Windows, Zunes, or anything else that you are about to complain doesn't belong here because its not specifically about Apple/Macs (they still make Macs, right?)
What do you have against Washington? : )