If you buy your iPhone from Apple, today, you’re limited to two per person. If you buy it from AT&T you’re limited to one per person.
That’s what marketing can do. Hardly a a person on the planet has seen or felt an iPhone, but the demand has been stoked so high that they’re artificially restricting sales.
That might be the norm for tickets for a really big sports event or a concert, but it’s amazing for a consumer electronics device. Especially one costing $500.
Will customers feel satisfied? Well, that could depend a lot on where they are in the US. In my experience the wireless networks in the US are considerably inferior to those in Europe and the developed parts of Asia.
For a device intended to make Internet connectivity seamless and easy, spotty and non-robust networks could take a lot of the pleasure from owning an iPhone.
Interestingly, although AT&T has an HSPA-enabled 3G network, Apple decided not to give the iPhone the capability to use it. The iPhone will therefore probably be relying more on its WiFi connectivity than its Edge connectivity to give users a decent internet experience.
But never mind the engineering, never mind the connections, just look at the marketing. That has to be an all-time Wow.
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