AppleInsider Staff
Apple's online storefronts recently went down in Europe in preparation of what is expected to be a deluge of orders for the company's new iPhone models, or more specifically the iPhone 5s.
Update: European online sales have started, and it appears stock for the iPhone 5s is just as low as Australia, with delivery dates showing 7 to 10 days.
At around 11:30 p.m. local London time, the UK Online Apple Store was taken down ahead of iPhone 5s and 5c preorders, with the site scheduled to be up and running for orders at midnight.
While customers have had a week to preorder the iPhone 5c, Apple chose to not do the same with the 5s, suggesting the device may be affected by supply constraints. A recent report claimed inventory of the flagship device will, at least in the U.S., be "grotesquely" low.
It remains to be seen how many iPhones Apple will sell over launch weekend, though analyst estimates range from 5 million all the way up to 8 million combined unit sales.
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i spoke with three different apple reps today ... one in a retail store, and two supervisors at -800-my-apple. each of them referred to the 5s orders being taken tonight as "pre-orders".
64GB Gold iPhone 5s's on the Online apple store in Australia have just slipped from shipping "7-10 days" to "October"! Selling fast!
In the UK all phones say Dispatched: 7- 10 business days Delivery: 07 Oct, 2013 - 10 Oct, 2013 Probably better to get them this way than queuing in a carrier/apple store So the "Order" is actually a "Pre-Order"
64GB Gold iPhone 5s's on the Online apple store in Australia have just slipped from shipping "7-10 days" to "October"!
Selling fast!
But the gold ones will never sell. Isn't that what those "experts" told us?