iPhone 4 sellout before launch day

20th June, 2010 by adina
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Through its official online store, Apple has confirmed that iPhone 4 pre-orders will not ship on release day. Anyone who purchases the new smartphone is now told that the manufacturer will ship its iPhone 4s starting July 2, with the possibility of a one week delay. The only model still arriving on June 24 is the 8GB iPhone 3GS.

This overnight sellout has come just a few hours after AT&T ran dry too. Both Apple’s online store and AT&T expected to have some extra stock for retail customers who haven’t made a pre-order. The ration of orders in advance for in-store stock is unknown and should remain this way. Suppliers like Best Buy, Radio Shack and Walmart will benefit from their own supplies, despite the ordering setbacks at Apple and AT&T – many suppliers have taken hours to complete the orders and others have given up for good.

These sellouts are a complete record for Apple’s iPhone. Last year, when iPhone 3GS pre-orders were available, nobody had to worry about immediate sellouts, as the pre-orders weren’t a problem at that time. Sales rates show that Apple could sell a lot more iPhones in at least the USA, compared to the previous year. European sales could also be more efficient.

Gene Munster, Piper Jaffray analyst, has recently issued a research note, assuming that Apple could reach two million iPhones sold during the next weekend. He also thinks that iPhone’s manufacturer could sell around 9.5 million iPhones over the world in the spring quarter, up from an approximate 8.5 million. This count could also put Apple within a million of the latest BlackBerry sales of RIM. Numbers are expected to grow during summer, when other countries will benefit from the iPhone 4.


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