Apple iPhone 3GS: a global shortage until September
If Apple still sells like hotcakes its iPod (almost 10 million per quarter) and Mac (nearly 2.5 million per quarter), another product should now inflate the excellent financial results of the company: the iPhone. 5.2 million units were sold between April and June 2009. And according to Apple and the operators french, the following months will be of the same ilk.
The demand is too strong
Indeed, Peter Oppenheimer, CFO of Apple, when presenting his latest findings, already referred to be “currently unable to produce enough iPhone 3GS to meet the high demand and we are working to resolve this problem. ”
Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, the iPhone 3GS “is limited in almost all countries where we deliver – given that demand is very strong. (…) We are enormously to meet the demand. “
One month of August was very difficult
Mac 4 Ever also confirmed the information last week to France, announcing that some dealers, France will be a huge shortage of iPhone 3GS, 16 GB and 32 GB, regardless of the model. Also according to our colleague, this shortage is expected to last the entire month of August, the stock was not refloated until September.
The three major operators french, in turn, confirm the problem. Didier Lombard, CEO of France Telecom (Orange) was recognized today during the presentation of the Group’s results to be “out of stock almost everywhere.”
Apple can not solve the problem
“As soon as we have in stores, we sell and in general, in two-three days, we’re out,” said Louis-Pierre Wenes, the Director General of Orange.
“We try to manage it better, but apparently Apple can not solve this problem,” he said with regret. “Today I probably sell 20 to 30% more if I was betrayed! “He exclaimed, however.
Arrivals in dribs and drabs
Even his bell on the side of SFR and Bouygues Telecom, for which each share iPhone 3GS arrived almost immediately.
Contacted by INpact PC, The Phone House, which also distributes the iPhone 3GS, we confirmed the completeness of this information. According to The Phone House, “the iPhone 3GS arrive in dribs and drabs, some shops are in fact” already out “total and August may well be complicated. A clarification, however, should happen in September, confirming the details of Mac 4 Ever.
