Apple Says All iPhone 7 Plus Models and Jet Black iPhone 7 Are Completely Sold Out

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Posted September 15, 2016 at 1:53pm by Shalom Levytam

Apple has announced all iPhone 7 Plus models and the Jet Black iPhone 7 are completely sold out and will not be available for purchase by customers lined up at its stores.

Here's the full statement provided to TechCrunch:

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We couldn’t be happier with the initial response to iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, and we are looking forward to beginning sales through our retail stores and partners around the world.

Beginning Friday, limited quantities of iPhone 7 in silver, gold, rose gold, and black will be available for walk-in customers at Apple retail stores. During the online pre-order period, initial quantities of iPhone 7 Plus in all finishes and iPhone 7 in jet black sold out and will not be available for walk-in customers. Availability at partner locations for all finishes may vary and we recommend checking directly with them.

Customers can continue to order all models in all colors on apple.com. We sincerely appreciate our customers’ patience as we work hard to get the new iPhone into the hands of everyone who wants one as quickly as possible.
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T-Mobile recently announced that pre-orders for the iPhone 7 were four times higher than those for the iPhone 6 and that matte black was the most popular color.

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Apple Says All iPhone 7 Plus Models and Jet Black iPhone 7 Are Completely Sold Out

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bob53366 - September 17, 2016 at 8:44pm

My wife works at Apple we can't get anything iPhone 7 right now at all.

AverageReviewer - September 15, 2016 at 11:23pm

Those orders have thing to do with in store stock. Tomorrow more will be available at retailers

gamerscul9870 - September 15, 2016 at 7:40pm

Fun fact: this was just the preorders of the iPhone. Regardless of stocks good or not, y'all do realize there are more iPhones after preorder. I disagree with some of your arguments.

Dredrums - September 15, 2016 at 4:13pm

Ah... the classic game of supply & demand... They always ship a small amount initially claiming a shortage on parts, so they can have high preorder/launch percentages. You mean to tell me, one of the largest, most lucrative tech companies can't produce enough product for what they know will be millions of people wanting it?!?

sami - September 15, 2016 at 3:26pm

This is jobs game of creating demand

angel_92701 - September 15, 2016 at 3:10pm

of course they only make 500000

zetaprime - September 15, 2016 at 3:09pm

That saves me a wasted trip to the store tomorrow.

Lewis - September 15, 2016 at 2:46pm

This U.K.?

zetaprime - September 15, 2016 at 4:25pm

Probably US or maybe global.

Guest - September 15, 2016 at 2:46pm

Why can't they ever have tons of stock?

zetaprime - September 15, 2016 at 5:49pm

They deliberately hold back on stock to make people rush to order early. Old marketing ploy.

bob53366 - September 17, 2016 at 8:51pm

nope - my wife works in the supply chain management @ Apple - iP7 was a major change vs. the iP6S so shifting all the suppliers to making new parts is very difficult when you need to make millions of devices. Plus is don't help when you sell out on line millions of devices in a few hours. One of the reasons why Apple releases it on the App Store hours before they open it to web page orders because the robot programmers go online and buy up as much stock as possible and flip them on eBay. Apple tries to curb this activity as much as possible but it's impossible to stop it 100%