Ran a little Twitter survey this morning. The new Retina mini appears to be available for purchase now in the US, Australia, Canada, Singapore and throughout much of Europe. That’s who I’ve heard from so far. Poll results show shipping in 1-3 days for the WiFi model, 5-10 days for the cellular model, though Belgium, Denmark, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland show shipping as 5-10 days for both models. The models range from 16GB up to 128GB.
In the US online Apple Store, as of 6:30 am ET, the 16GB and 32GB WiFi-only models show as ready to ship in 1-3 days and everything else is marked to ship in 5-10 days.
What I love is all the sites that keep saying this is due to limited supplies. As if Apple is pulling an HP in only has a few thousand. They keep saying Apple admitted this.
But Apple didn’t. Tim Cook said they have no idea what demand will be like so it’s possible it will be so vastly high it will exceed the (tens of millions of unit they typically have for launch) supply.
It’s easy to figure out what this is. Resellers. Quiet launch with no firm in store date makes it hard for them to rally and do their thing. Helping to keep supplies in the hands of end users.
Germany: WiFi 16 GB/32GB 1-3 days, all other 5-10 days; cellular all models 5-10 days
Here’s another data point for you in case you run that survey too:
Ordered one: 64GB, Cellular, White