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And people STILL think apple's got some kind of giant warehouse of these just sitting around to **** people off who want one but can't get one?

Foxconn making 137,000 iPhone 4′s each day | 9 to 5 Mac Foxconn making 137,000 iPhone 4′s each day | Apple Intelligence

They could ship all 137,000 phones to Canada and they'd still just barely keep up with demand. But they've got 20+ other countries to supply as well!

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ehOhh

Would be nice to know where they all go; certainly not Canada.

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Here:



Plus the US, Great Britain, Germany, France and Japan.

22 countries / 137,000 iPhones = 6,000 a day. Though I seriously doubt all countries get equal iPhone time. And the 137,000 number is a current production #, I bet they started producing much less).

Stock seems to have reached parity in the US (according to reports - at least at most B&M Apple stores) so I expect it'll hopefully be another month before Canada reaches some sort of parity. Be nice to see how many iPhone 4's they've sold so far...

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Stephanie

The linked article about Gou was an interesting read.

Also interesting that they basically had to invest $20 million on special machines just to be able to crank out the iPhone 4's metal frame in volume.

After the relatively-recent news that Apple got some exclusive rights to the 'Liquid Metal' alloy I'm thinking the iPhone 5 will be made out of that instead of the steel alloy in the iP4.

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More news today - with analysts expecting AT&T to activate 4.5 Million iPhones in the September quarter.

So that's 4.5 Million iPhone 4's (mostly, I'd assume) in July, Aug, Sept just in the US alone.

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