Apple Retail Staff Told to Warn Against iPhone Duo Walk-In Purchases

Some Apple retail employees person been told to pass customers against visiting to acquisition an iPhone Duo without a pre-order connected Friday, October 23.


Apple Store employees told MacRumors that they person been advised that determination volition apt beryllium nary ‌iPhone Duo‌ banal disposable for walk-in purchases connected motorboat day. Staff person been instructed to discourage customers without pre-orders from coming successful expecting to bargain the device, informing that they volition beryllium disappointed.

Apple's online store tells customers to cheque backmost connected Saturday, October 24 for pickup availability. Pickup reservations were briefly available erstwhile pre-orders opened earlier the enactment was disabled.

The October 24 connection does not warrant banal volition beryllium disposable that day, and it remains unclear however steadfast the informing shared with employees is and whether it applies worldwide. If the guidance is steadfast and wide perpetuated, it closes disconnected a imaginable way for customers hoping to bypass the device's lengthy online hold times, astatine slightest astatine the stores concerned.

Warnings astir a constrained motorboat began good earlier Apple announced the ‌iPhone Duo‌. In aboriginal September, Nikkei Asia reported that accumulation had reached lone a fewer hundred devices per time successful precocious August. Further production problems emerged successful precocious September.

Earlier this month, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said Apple had astatine 1 constituent believed accumulation constraints could propulsion the commencement of income into November. The institution subsequently assembled capable inventory to proceed with the October 23 launch, though supply remained precise limited.

The grade of the shortage became evident erstwhile pre-orders opened earlier this week. Delivery estimates moved beyond motorboat time wrong minutes, and wrong 30 minutes, each configurations successful Apple's U.S. online store showed January 25 shipping estimates. The instrumentality is present efficaciously sold retired for Christmas done Apple's online store.

Apple subsequently described request arsenic "nothing abbreviated of extraordinary" successful a connection to the Financial Times, adding that it was moving to get devices to customers arsenic rapidly arsenic possible. Apple has not publically specified whether immoderate stores volition person banal for launch-day walk-in purchases.

The ‌iPhone Duo‌ starts astatine $1,999 successful the United States, with the archetypal pre-order deliveries scheduled for October 23.
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