Where, oh where, have my iPhones gone?

We’ve been hearing about shortages of iPhones from UK provider O2 and reseller Carphone Warehouse, but up until this weekend, the Apple Stores seemed to still have them in stock. Unfortunately, now it seems that this iPhone famine has hit the online Apple Stores in both the US and the UK.

Going to the store product pages for the iPhone in both countries now yields a ship date of “Currently Unavailable,” which—if we may quibble—is not really a date at all, now is it? Still, if even Apple doesn’t have iPhones to sell, that seems to indicate either a rather big misestimate of channel inventory, or, if you’re more of a conspiracy theorist, the imminent release of a new model.

We’re still a few weeks out from WWDC, though, and I find it hard to believe that Apple’s going to chug along for the next couple of weeks not selling iPhones, unless they’re just trying to build demand—which, to be honest, they don’t really need.

Then again, perhaps it’s just a sign of the imminent apocalypse. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

Category: News

Posted by Dan Moren on May 12 2008, 11:06 AM ET

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