iPhone Duo: Latest Buyer Wait Times

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iPhone Duo bid hold times averaged 89 days contempt falling by a week, according to UBS Investment Bank information arsenic of October 30. (Via Investing.com.)

The USB Evidence Lab tracker covers iPhone availability crossed much than 30 markets, and puts the iPhone Duo purchaser hold clip astatine astir 3 months, adjacent aft the flimsy improvement.

By comparison, iPhone 18 Pro hold times averaged astir 5 days, down 3 days from the erstwhile week, portion the Pro Max held dependable astatine astir 18 days. UBS said reports of cracked screens were improbable to beryllium the main crushed for shorter Duo waits. But connected their own, the figures don't archer america whether request has weakened oregon proviso has improved.

iPhone Duo pre-orders slipped to precocious January wrong minutes connected the device's October 16 launch, but astir radical who queued connected motorboat time walked distant with a caller phone. The reason, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, is that Apple allocated astir 80% of its archetypal iPhone Duo inventory to its retail stores, with locations holding arsenic fewer arsenic 50 units each.

At the time, Apple described request arsenic "nothing abbreviated of extraordinary" and said it was moving to fulfill request "as rapidly arsenic possible," truthful there's a bully accidental that, adjacent if a transportation estimation for your bid is mode retired successful the future, it could amended implicit time.