{"id":7099,"date":"2008-07-25T05:16:12","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T05:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/iphones_shortage_persists.html"},"modified":"2008-07-25T05:16:12","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T05:16:12","slug":"iphones-shortage-persists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/iphones-shortage-persists.html","title":{"rendered":"iPhones Shortage Persists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Galitzine <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/greg-galitzine\/voip\/mobility\/iphone-shortage-dissipating.html\">cited <\/a>a website called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topmuffin.com\/3g-iphone-availability\">Topmuffin<\/a> when writing that the iPhone shortage has dissipated. I checked the iPhone availability <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/retail\/iphone\/availability.html\">site<\/a> at 5:00 AM on July 25 and there were zero phones available in Connecticut, New York, California, Florida and Texas. Basically, every state I checked had zero phones in stock.<\/p>\n<p>Still the Topmuffin site says that there are plenty of iPhones in all of these states.<\/p>\n<p>While I think a site like Topmuffin makes sense &#8212; I also think the website managers here may have taken the day off to eat some muffins.&#160;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/mt-static\/plugins\/FCKeditor\/fckeditor\/editor\/images\/smiley\/msn\/wink_smile.gif\" \/> No word on when they will return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Galitzine cited a website called Topmuffin when writing that the iPhone shortage has dissipated. I checked the iPhone availability site at 5:00 AM on July 25 and there were zero phones available in Connecticut, New York, California, Florida and Texas. Basically, every state I checked had zero phones in stock. Still the Topmuffin site<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,168,172,196,163,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}