Hi there, I was generally browsing through the Apple UK Store and I had clicked onto the iPhone store page, and I got this image:
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Online Apple Store is Out of iPhones
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Yeah the iPhone is no longer available in the UK anywhere, its been discontinued
https://www.macrumors.com/2008/05/08/iphone-no-longer-available-in-uk/
Although apparently the 16gb version is now back in stock on O2.
https://www.macrumors.com/2008/05/08/iphone-no-longer-available-in-uk/
Although apparently the 16gb version is now back in stock on O2.
Likewise.All I can say is...I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE UK!!! I WANT IT iN JAPAN!!!
And I am afraid that we have a long wait for it to arrive here.
If it were coming Tuesday press invitations would already have been sent out and they haven't. It could theoretically be announced as soon as Friday, I suppose, but I think chances are there just won't be any iPhone sales between now and WWDC. Some of you will recall that Apple once suspended iMac sales for an even longer period of time before a new model came out, and with a high profile product like the iPhone Apple has added incentive to not anger new customers by making their newly purchased phone obsolete by announcing a whole new model a week or two later.
I just went to AT&T personal wireless and it seems to be OK in the US:
http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/cell-phone-plans/index.jsp?source=IC4425L3100u9100
Apple would NOT close a iPhone sale for a periode. It would cost them a fortune...
That's funny, I'm pretty sure that's what they've just done. Can you order the iPhone right now? No. Is there a new model coming out today? Also no.
Maybe a new model WILL come out sooner. Not today, but maybe in next week. All I'm saying is that it would be odd to close the sale for a month
Not if they know that they'll more than make up for lost sales during that period as soon as the new iPhone is released.
No way! Thats not the way a business-mann runs his business! He'll try to get every penny of peoples pockets by selling as much as he can.
Generally a company would not do such a thing, but as we all know, Apple is not like other companies. There are a lot a variables at play including marketing/hype, consumer backlash and remorse (which Apple is very familiar with and susceptible to), actual future price/product/model changes, production/inventory, and secrecy.
The situation trickles to this: Will a material amount of revenue (or profit, marketshare, etc.) be lost by would-be iPhone purchasers buying something else in the mean time? If the answer is no, than Apple can hold off until that point is reached. Even if that point is reached before WWDC, I have a hard time imagining Steve just putting it out there without his introduction; so I imagine the earliest will be WWDC anyway.
Great answer. It all about Apples trust to their consumers
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