Husbands are like that. 

It’s part of the package and it’s been that way since the dawn of humankind. It’ll pass as soon as he has one. Within a month he’ll forget his brooding. 

Are you too far from an Apple store in Florida?

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Unfortunately, the closest Apple store is about 1 1/2 hrs away.  He’d probably be willing to drive there to get one, but I’m out of town in our car that’s highway drivable.  I told him I might be able to stop at the Apple Store in Houston, on my way back to Florida.  He said that might be an option.

Plenty for sale on eBay….

Going price is around $875 bucks for a 16G - not ASKING, but GETTING.

I wonder how on earth some of these guys got five or six of them to sell?

Anyway, if eBay is any indication, people will pay $200 BUCKS NOT TO WAIT IN LINE.

Pay attention here Apple, for the 4G offer a concierge service, for $300 extra, an “Apple Genius Jr” will come to your house by appointment, set it up for you, and give you a 1/2 hour operating lesson.

Best Buy has their “GEEK SQUAD” we need our “MACGOONER’s”

Whatchallthingaboutit?

[quote author=“roontoon”][quote author=“stkstalker”][quote author=“Play Ultimate”][quote author=“omacvi”]any thing over 600k this weekend would be great

The issue is that there were no online sales

I think each Apple store sold at least 500 per day

And each Att store sold 75 per day

You do the math

We still are in good shape

ATT = 75 * 3 * 2200 =  495,000
Apple= 500 *3 * 200 = 300,000
Total = 795,000 US only. 

Seems high but . . .

BTW, last year’s numbers got so out of hand ridiculous that . . .

Congrats dude and sponge - you were referenced in PED’d Fortune article.

Fortune’s been Sponged. 

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It feels good to be recognized by a premier magazine.  Especially as an anonymous mac addict on an obscure website.

checked with a ATT store in Temecula CA and they sold 140 on Friday, 80 yesterday and they don’t know when they will get more.

My buddy wanted to get one but the line in Century City was too long for him.  He said there were about 50 people in line yesterday.

This product is hot and hard to get a hold of. 

It feels good to own lots of aapl.

Looks like the number of Apple’s stores short of stock is pretty high this evening, Hard to give an exact number without counting all the dots (someone with a 7 year old give them a buck to count them ). Maybe 70% or so? Calif. is very well stocked but the rest of the US is in a lot shorter supply.

[quote author=“omacvi”]any thing over 600k this weekend would be great

The issue is that there were no online sales

I think each Apple store sold at least 500 per day

And each Att store sold 75 per day

You do the math

We still are in good shape

I think that is right.  12 hour day times 10 Apple staff checking times 4 phones per hour (15 minutes for each sale) is 480 phones at one store.

I’ll save you the dollar. Here is what i counted for stores with phones:
8 GB: 74/188 (39%)
16 W:  84 (45%)
16 B:  52 (28%)
95 stores (51%)  had at least 1 model in stock

It was a quick 10 min count, I am sure i’m off by a store or two somewhere, but at least you get a general idea and i was curious.

Looking at tonight’s availability charts, there’s a lot of inventory to fill.

I’m surprised shipments have not kept up with demand by late Monday.

[quote author=“DawnTreader”]Looking at tonight’s availability charts, there’s a lot of inventory to fill.

I’m surprised shipments have not kept up with demand by late Monday.

DT, my thinking is that Apple had a run of 2 mil and held back some to ship to hot areas. Ga has plenty available last time I looked. After this week I would think that each store would get at most 2 deliveries per week. By the end of next week production should be streamlined to match demand. JMO of course. This qtr’s numbers will be nice because of the initial channel fill, ohh nice padding.

[quote author=“mbeauch”][quote author=“DawnTreader”]Looking at tonight’s availability charts, there’s a lot of inventory to fill.

I’m surprised shipments have not kept up with demand by late Monday.

DT, my thinking is that Apple had a run of 2 mil and held back some to ship to hot areas. Ga has plenty available last time I looked. After this week I would think that each store would get at most 2 deliveries per week. By the end of next week production should be streamlined to match demand. JMO of course. This qtr’s numbers will be nice because of the initial channel fill, ohh nice padding.

Considering the global roll outs to come, it may be awhile before the channel is filled with a couple/few weeks of inventory.

[quote author=“artman1033”]In conclusion, I believe production constraints will prevent Apple from selling more than 1 million per month of the 3g iphone.

Where does the production limit of 1M/month come from? I had been assuming best estimate of planned capacity was 3M/month. At 21 countries it looks like 2M/month will be needed. When it’s over 70, 3M/month looks plausible.

Why would Apple plan a production level that won’t meet the 10M in CY 2008 that’s been more or less stated as fact?

[quote author=“sleepygeek”][quote author=“artman1033”]In conclusion, I believe production constraints will prevent Apple from selling more than 1 million per month of the 3g iphone.

Where does the production limit of 1M/month come from? I had been assuming best estimate of planned capacity was 3M/month. At 21 countries it looks like 2M/month will be needed. When it’s over 70, 3M/month looks plausible.

Why would Apple plan a production level that won’t meet the 10M in CY 2008 that’s been more or less stated as fact?

SG, my thoughts exactly. With the above scenario you could not even have a new launch. The above stated cost of 5 mil for a new line is a drop in the bucket. I don’t know how much automation is involved in the iphone production, I also don’t have any idea about the quality controls. The one thing that does make sense is that the production line would be set up for at least 3-4 mil/month. If there were not any phones held back and Apple went into the launch with no backup then that is another problem. This is where Deagol and his serial number tracking will come in.

Artman, I am anxious for SJ and company to announce monday that the 2nd mil has been sold.  What about France, doesn’t it launch on the 17th? 

Artman I also heard a 3-8 days figure from a few ATT stores but that was if you went ahead and payed and they would have one and hold it for you in the store for you to pick up(or they could deliver it). However they were still getting shipments of additional stock daily, however those were probably already reserved for those people that had already signed up for them. Just because none are available for direct purchase the day one walks into the store does not mean they are not getting any products delivered.

[quote author=“sleepygeek”][quote author=“artman1033”]In conclusion, I believe production constraints will prevent Apple from selling more than 1 million per month of the 3g iphone.

Where does the production limit of 1M/month come from? I had been assuming best estimate of planned capacity was 3M/month. At 21 countries it looks like 2M/month will be needed. When it’s over 70, 3M/month looks plausible.

Why would Apple plan a production level that won’t meet the 10M in CY 2008 that’s been more or less stated as fact?

Exactly.

There’s no theoretical limit to the manufacturing capacity needed to satisfy demand and I’m sure Apple has ramped production to meet demand as quickly as possible. Again, I still see this as a logistics issue considering the number of sales points which is far greater for this release than it was for the original iPhone.

It’s one of the reasons determining the pace of sales is so challenging. There’s no way to accurately track manufacturing, shipment and consumer sales numbers for all of the potential points of sale without having access to Apple’s internal numbers.