Apple offers an iPhone store locator service (disclaimer: I own Apple stock). Macenstein points out that three of the four Seattle area stores are sold out of the iPhone and one possible reason being that Microsoft employees are buying them up for “product research.” Rimshot.

Apple’s home office in California hosts a lot more Apple stores than Washington state. This morning I manually checked every state to see how many stores have iPhones available as of this writing.

Availability - State - stores where iPhone available / total stores in state
100% Alabama - 1 of 1
66% Arizona - 2 of 3
5.5% California - 2 of 36 (San Francisco, San Francisco Stone Town)
100% Colorado - 5 of 5
100% Connecticut - 3 of 3
100% Delaware - 1 of 1
61.5% Florida - 8 of 13
66% Georgia - 2 of 3
0% Hawaii - 0 of 2
80% Illinois - 4 of 5
100% Indiana - 1 of 1
100% Iowa - 1 of 1
100% Maryland - 5 of 5
100% Massachusetts - 6 of 6
66% Michigan - 2 of 3
25% Minnesota - 1 of 4
100% Missouri - 3 of 3
100% Nebraska - 1 of 1
0% Nevada - 0 of 2
100% New Hampshire - 1 of 1
100% New Jersey - 9 of 9
100% New Mexico - 1 of 1
91.6% New York - 11 of 12
100% North Carolina - 3 of 3
100% Ohio - 3 of 3
50% Oklahoma - 1 of 2
100% Oregon - 3 of 3
75% Pennsylvania - 3 of 4
100% Rhode Island - 1 of 1
75% Tennessee - 2 of 3
66.6% Texas - 8 of 12
0% Utah - 0 of 1
100% Virginia - 5 of 5
25% Washington - 1 of 4
100% Wisconsin - 2 of 2

Of all Apple stores across 35 states, only three states are sold out of the iPhone: Utah (1 store), Hawaii (2 stores) and Nevada (2 stores). Overall availability: 102 of 154 Apple stores still have the iPhone in stock as of this writing at just before 6am PST on Monday July 2.

Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster via Crave calculated some half million iPhones were sold over the weekend:

Ninety-five percent of iPhone buyers in San Francisco, New York and Minneapolis (home to Piper Jaffray’s offices) purchased the 8GB model, according to a survey conducted by the firm. About half were new customers for AT&T

This leads TechCrunch to add:

With margins on the device in the 20-50% range (probably closer to the lower end), that leaves an estimated $50 to $150 million in profit.

The iPhone isn’t the Nintendo Wii
Despite the staggering amount of media coverage, the iPhone didn’t create a Cabbage Patch Doll phenomenon. The Nintendo Wii still can’t be found in stores around here and it launched last November. Over the weekend I stopped by the South Center mall Apple store in Seattle (showing out of stock according to the locator) and they had a round table display with 10 or so iPhones you could touch and play around with (attached to a security cord of course). I picked one up and checked it out for a few minutes. Didn’t seem as fragile as I’d thought it would be.

The iPhone selling out over 30% of the stores the first weekend isn’t bad. Will be interesting to see where sales go from here. I’ve read a few people saying they are waiting for the second generation.

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