iPhone 17 Pro Iphone pro in Silver long delivery dates

[Melinn]

Here in my country in Europe if you buy your phone via phone carriers the delivery dates for Silver iphones is long.
Silver pro and max both have an estimation of 4-6 weeks delivery time regardless of storage 256gb vs 512gb (2T on pro max excluded).
While the other colours orange and blue has shorter delivery estimation of like 2-3 weeks. (Usually it won't take 4-6 weeks in the end and be sooner depending on stock.)

Is this normal, does this happen during releases of new iphones? Does Apple maybe have production problems with the silver frames?
Or is silver maybe most popular colour? Both? Or did Apple maybe think people would go more for the blue and orange? 🤔

 

[memo90061]

It's the same in Los Angeles... The silver seems to be out of stock.

 

[Melinn]

It's the same in Los Angeles... The silver seems to be out of stock.

Thats doesn't sound promising, maybe a world wide low stock in Silver?😢

 

[stormchasejg]

It's not uncommon for there to be shortages of certain models after pre-order and in the weeks after release day, it happens every year.
I would guess silver has been a more popular option this year as a neutral color option for those who don't like Orange or Blue and they may have factored in more people wanting the new Orange color so got a larger inventory of them so that's why the delays are less but silver may have had more demand than expected.

Once release day has passed Apple works fast to try and ship people their phones as quick as possible and many will likely see those 4-6 weeks moved up.

 

[memo90061]

I was thinking the same thing... Apple probably made more orange phones. I wanted silver, but chose blue because of stock. I've seen the blue phone be a fingerprint magnet!

 

[Melinn]

It's not uncommon for there to be shortages of certain models after pre-order and in the weeks after release day, it happens every year.
I would guess silver has been a more popular option this year as a neutral color option for those who don't like Orange or Blue and they may have factored in more people wanting the new Orange color so got a larger inventory of them so that's why the delays are less but silver may have had more demand than expected.

Once release day has passed Apple works fast to try and ship people their phones as quick as possible and many will likely see those 4-6 weeks moved up.

Yes might be. They might have thought orange would be more popular however to me thats surpricing if they really thought that. Orange is really an acquired taste. Surely they are experienced enough to know the neutral light colours along with black is in majority taste wise for most people? How can they be a billion dollar company if they can't predict something this simple right?

Maybe they for some reason wanted to "nudge" people to get the orange, mainly the people who can't wait and has to have their new order in their hands yesterday would maybe go for that option if they were decident between orange and other colour.

Buts its all speculations. Still interesting

 

[Melinn]

I was thinking the same thing... Apple probably made more orange phones. I wanted silver, but chose blue because of stock. I've seen the blue phone be a fingerprint magnet!

You were too impatient to wait a little bit longer? 😅

 

[stormchasejg]

Yes might be. They might have thought orange would be more popular however to me thats surpricing if they really thought that. Orange is really an acquired taste. Surely they are experienced enough to know the neutral light colours along with black is in majority taste wise for most people? How can they be a billion dollar company if they can't predict something this simple right?

Maybe they for some reason wanted to "nudge" people to get the orange, mainly the people who can't wait and has to have their new order in their hands yesterday would maybe go for that option if they were decident between orange and other colour.

Buts its all speculations. Still interesting

The stock they have for new colors is always higher because they know that many people will go for something newest/exclusive to just to show it off. They predicted the colors and demand fine but its always better to undershoot your initial order stock and have a backlog of a few weeks than have a excess stock they can't sell just taking up warehouse space, it happens every year so nothing new or unexpected and those dates will more up quick.

In an interview when asked about the lack of a black, they said that the colors were chosen to appeal to everyone with the silver and blue being the neutral colors and the orange being the 'hot' new color for those who want to be adventurous or outgoing.

 

[memo90061]

You were too impatient to wait a little bit longer? 😅

Yes, I'm going to a concert on September 26 and I wanted to try out the cameras at that concert. haha

 

[eoblaed]

Is this normal, does this happen during releases of new iphones?

Every release. It's inevitable. The choice is either to build out a supply chain fat enough to deal with first day/week order demand of a new device with no delays -- and then have excess capacity sitting around unused the rest of the year which is wasteful, drains money, etc .. or, strike as much of a balance as you can to keep first day/week order times not too bad while not having unused manufacturing capacity the rest of the year.

I'm always sitting at my computer 15 minutes before pre-orders go live to make sure I get what I want on delivery day (hence, my wife and I are getting our Silver ProMax phones delivered this Friday).