Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica:

Between ongoing supply chain issues, chip shortages, and pent-up demand, Apple’s new MacBook Pros were always going to be hard to get. They’ve been up for preorder for less than 24 hours, and if you order one now, you probably won’t get it before November or December.

But the new laptops aren’t Apple’s only in-demand product: The shipping times for Apple’s $19 microfiber Polishing Cloth have also already slipped back into mid to late November. Unfortunately, this means that your compatible iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple Watches, and iPods will need to remain unpolished for at least a month.

This reads like an April Fool’s column or the sharp sardonic wit of The Macalope.

But no, this is a real thing, the high end polishing cloth that shipped with the original Pro Display XDR. And the bad news is, it’s now slipped even further, to mid-December.

Here’s a link if you just gotta have one.