Cingular Stores getting 4 or 5 units?

[neven]

The stores have a quantity being shipped that corresponds to the size of the store. Standard Apple stores: 250-300, flagships: 600-750;

AT&T stores should be similarly stocked, but scaled down to the size of their stores. Because Apple can handle a greater volume of customers (at once) - more iPhones are going to Apple retail stores for the first two weeks.

Words of reason.

Also - what's with people advising others to go to a store in, like, Beaver Bottom, Georgia because there won't be as many people waiting there? Then there won't be as many iPhones there either. Apple and AT&T know better than to send products to stores where they won't get sold. You'd be surprised how well stores can forecast sales.

Any limit in availability of iPhones will stem solely from production difficulties, not from some artificial restricting.

 

[mox358]

Believable in some places

I used to work at a cingular store close to where I live, and the supposed 4-5 iphones for stores this size would not surprise me in the slightest. We would only get more than 5 quantity of a phone if it was the featured free phone at the time. There were probably only 20 new activations on a good day, but it is considered essential for Cingular to keep a presence in the area.

Plus, living in a primarily farming community, everybody who sees the tv commercials thinks its really cool, but almost none of them actually plan on spending the money to get one, not yet anyway. I was the only person I'd seen around here with an iPod until last summer if that gives you any idea.

 

[marksman]

I am sure some really low volume stores might only get a handful of phones.

But most normal stores will have a lot more than 5-10.

Anyways, I suggest anyone who talks to anyone who works for AT&T just ignore them. AT&T employees seemingly can't help but just lie when they don't actually know something.