It’s also a neat trick to mask how severely constrained Apple’s supply chain really is, and how many phones it was able to produce before launch.
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The iPhone 7 (32 GB) sells for $649. The jet black version now isn’t shipping new orders until November in the USA, though wait times could change based on supply and demand.
Apple’s iPhone 7 and 7 Plus have gone on sale, greeted as ever by queues out the door to pick them up. Fans in Sydney weathered drizzle to line up outside the Apple Store, becoming some of the world’s first owners of the new models.
A customer sets up his new iPhone 7 Plus, right, as he switches from an iPhone 6 at the Apple Store on Michigan Avenue in Chicago Sept. 16, 2016.
This differs from Samsung Galaxy Note 7 buyers, many of whom are new to the company – though they seem to have bought in at a bad time. A manager at the store said store employees could not comment on sales or how busy the store was, and that all comments must come from Apple corporate headquarters.
Ayman Khalifa, an airline flight attendant from Cairo, Egypt, waits in line on Thursday night at Apple’s 5th Avenue retail store for an iPhone 7.
The iPhone 7 Plus is the better model on paper, boasting a bigger, higher resolution screen, dual camera setup at the back, and larger battery. She also said she was disappointed with Apple’s controversial decision to remove the phone’s headphone jack. Azzura Lalani, of the Toronto Star, is on the scene at the Eaton Centre Apple store, and noted about 150 people waiting.
Customers lined up outside the Apple store in Beijing’s Sanlitun shopping area early in the morning, waiting to collect their pre-ordered mobile phones.
Similar lines had formed in other cities, including San Francisco, Miami, Houston, Salt Lake City, and Kansas City, Missouri. “I have three kids, I love to take photos of them so that’s what I want”.
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In many places around the globe, the iPhone 7 Plus and Jet Black iPhone 7 will not be available to walk-in customers on the day of launch because they have completely sold out.
