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Originally Posted by Brown Keeper
Is this in remote areas?
Walked Into san Diego apple store beginning of November and they had both colors in all three sizes.
You could have just walked into the store at the right time. Basically for the first 2 months after the 4S was released last year, Apple stores would get just a small number of the 4S each day. If you wanted one, you had to show up and wait in line each day.
In December around Xmas time, they changed to where they wouldn't sell an iPhone to a walk in customer even if they had one available. This happened to me. Everything was done online. You had to go online to Apple's website after 9 pm each night and reserve what they had coming in the next day. You then came into the store to pick the phone up the next day. I tried this a few days and it was very frustrating.
I just like walking into the store and picking up the phone. For the most part that happened in January at Apple Stores and the various carriers. Now stories are coming out about serious shortages on the 5 with one of the big problems being the availability of the screen. My feeling is that things will probably be worse this year.