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White iPhone 4 has disappeared from Apple online store - Canceled?
Brandon Davenport
So, a few days ago it was announced that the white iPhone 4 would be delayed until Spring 2011, and you may have noticed that Apple has removed the white iPhone 4 from their online store. This is not a good sign for those of you waiting for a white iPhone 4. Also, prepare your flame-war retardant gear.
This week, the white iPhone 4 showed up in the Apple store app available for pre-order, but when you asked to order it all you got was this message — “Because of high demand, we are not currently taking iPhone reservations.” — and last night, Apple removed the white iPhone 4 completely from their online store, but left it on their Apple store iPhone app.
“What’s wrong with spring? What isn’t wrong with spring? Come next June and there’ll be a new model. I hope the Company is full of shit and that your hard-to-manufacture ass has been canceled, and that they just can’t bear to say so publicly. But even if you do ship in the spring, that means you’ve got — what? a month? maybe two months? — before you’re dropped to the $99 last-year’s-model cheapskate bin.” — John Gruber, Daring Fireball
In a recent piece by John Gruber on Daring Fireball, he puts the situation in a different light, portraying the white iPhone 4 as a gambling, drinking cocaine snorting slob and the original iPhone 4 as the “grown up” in the situation and why the white iPhone 4 may be waiting for a release on Verizon and skipping AT&T all together.
In the end it doesn’t make much sense for Apple to pour more resources into a product that will be obsolete in 3 months (if it releases in the spring), and it makes more sense to focus on the next generation hardware for June 2011’s release. So frankly, we wouldn’t be surprised if Apple cancels the white iPhone 4 all together — but that won’t stop fanboy souls getting crushed.
