Not available in Canada.

totoro

Cali-forni-way. We hear they have Internet there. LOL. I waited at the Meatpacking District store on Saturday the 12th. Even though I was able to get work done while waiting, I thought the total wait (waiting plus purchase took 5 hours) was too long. Nice to know that my wait was not in vain! Poor suckers don't have their phones yet. And I have iPint to keep me hydrated, PhoneSaber to ward off attackers and Shazam to impress people.

G Maniac

@SomeoneUKno: Well did you give him your checking or savings account number? I heard he hooks you up faster with both. Nigerian internets tubes are smaller than American ones, so you have the split the money up so it doesnt get clogged. At least thats what he told me...

thechansen

@thechansen: Yeah, they told me that I would get my 3 million when I signed up to help that poor dying Nigerian prince. I still dont understand why I had to send him 20 thousand dollars...

SomeoneUKno

Ha LOSERS!!11!1! I prepaid $299.99 for an iPhone on 7/14, have no idea if and when I will receive it, and have heard of/know people who ordered it after me that have received it within 4 day! THANK GOD FOR AT&T DIRECT FULFILLMENT!

Also, the Apple Stock Checker never shows up for me...

thechansen

@Chester_Copperpot: Thank you. I feel better about my failed attempt now :-D

SomeoneUKno

They still have a queue set up in front of the Apple stores at the Florida Mall and Mall at Millenia in Orlando...

I hardly go to the mall, but the few times I've been in the last couple weeks, there's usually a line of 30 or so people

Chromeo

@SomeoneUKno: Thank God I live Cali-forni-way.

Chester_Copperpot

HA HA!!! Got mine already. All I had to do is wait 6 hours on line.

Losers!!!

misterwho

GAH! Curse you failed youtube video! Damn south park reference!

SomeoneUKno

@Mr.SithNinja: Well, you remember what happened when America ran out of the internet...

SomeoneUKno

@Mr.SithNinja: HEY WHO TOLD?!

Carmen turns 19 in 5 days!!!

This is getting regoddamndiculous. It may be the Jesus Phone 2.0 we are talking about here but it is still just a damn phone! Do we really need inventory trackers? What's next? People stalking Apple employees, and hiding in the bushes outside of Apple stores waiting for the UPS truck? Come to think of it, it probably is happening.

Someone please, STOP THE MADNESS!

Mr.SithNinja

this morning @ 7:15, the soho store only had the 16 gig black in stock. they cut the line off after about 30 people... i grabbed one and i must say that, once we were all let in 8 when the store opened, the process moved pretty quickly.

GeorgetteEspi

Oh, and amateur analysis of the data as of right now is that the 16 GB White model isn't nearly as popular as the others. I wonder how many people have bought white ones just because it was their only choice?

Puck

retarded...its better to wait for the initial rush to pass and then waltz in when its cooled down...like with the new batman movie...hell with opening nite... crowded and noisy...

urbanturban666

Great find, thanks.

Puck

I don't know where they're getting their sources, but this is totally incorrect. I went over to the Apple store SOHO, NY, and they don't have any. But this thing said earlier today they had only the 8GB and 16GB, but not the white. Now it says all of them are available. None of them are available! I call BS!

Rain-man

That feed is showing null, which in programming and databases means no value, not zero.

propertius

@twoeightnine:

Doesn't work anymore. I think Apple caught on.

OGHowie

I think apple disabled it today. Good thing I got my phone on Tuesday.

OGHowie

Apple's JSON feed doesn't seem to be very accurate. Hording or not, some stores have had stock when the feed said none was available.

dnono

If you change the clock on your computer to after 9:00pm and reload the Apple.com page it will give you real time stock notice.

twoeightnine

@Rain-man: Well it uses Apple's own JSON feed, found here. And the tracker is showing no stock anywhere right now.

matt buchanan

@OGHowie: That's funny. I wonder if it was my comment that tipped them off because I double checked it before and after I posted that. Oh well, that's how I got mine, the guy activating my phone didn't believe me when I told him about it.

twoeightnine

...and Apple has cut them off.

It says: "Evidently, Apple did not like their 3G iPhone availability data being used outside of apple.com.
They have changed all inventory values to NULL in their JSON file. I guess it beats a cease-and-desist letter."

cjh6793

Also, I have heard the new shipments arrive typically around noon each day and that if you push your system time forward to 9pm that night it would allow you to see the stock for that day.

Not sure if it works though becuase I have not tried it.

TechRuss

Well I went to the North Park Mall in Dallas, TX Apple Store on the "Release Day" at approximatly 5pm. by 7:30pm I was walking out to my car with a shiny new Black iPhone3G!! Wahoo.....

So then my wife decides to get one, after I told her to get one while with me on "release day" but she did not, so we waited in line for nearly 4 hours on Tuesday night (yes this past tuesday which was over a week after release day) and she got her shiny new white iPhone3G.

TechRuss

Pretty sure, they're just disabling the feed during operating hours - at least this has been the pattern for the past few days. Check back after 9 and it should be up again. I doubt they'd disable it yet, the lines outside their stores have yet to disappear.

dnono

So one of the local stores that was labeled as not having any phones to sell did have phones today - and they're still selling them. Had I gone to _that_ store instead of the store with a listed inventory (and which sold out before my spot in line) I'd have a phone by now. The webtool needs to be fixed.

dnono

Please update:
The site is down, apparently Apple caught one and is crying in a corner.

CoH

Great. Now my personal tracker is down too.

FlashSandbox

goddamn it, i wish i had caught this while it was still up. When I call up the apple stores in my area (just far enough to make it "expensive" to drive to) they're not very helpful and act kind of annoyed.

karmaghost

Am I the only one that finds that if you change your computer's clock to past 9 PM, then the website will show you the stock information?

cookedart

The Apple availability website uses your system clock to check the time, so to see availability at anytime throughout the day just set your system clock past 9:00 P.M. and you can see it.

jheck21

The availability checker on Apple's website uses your system clock, so all you have to do to check availability at anytime during the day is set your system clock to after 9:00 P.M. and it will work fine.

jheck21

Do you need to have photoshop/art skills?

Wormfather is Wormfather

I called the Apple Store here in PHX and they said "hurry down but if you get here in the next 30 minutes you'll definitely get one". Stood in line for about an hour and walked with an 8gb. I got the MobileMe setup too and really that is about as pointless as it gets, too bad I don't have exchange anymore at my new company.

MrBlonde29