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Apple's foldable iPhone Duo launched in stores on Friday, October 23, and demand has outstripped supply so far. Apple Store pickup is back online after being unavailable for the past week, while delivery estimates depend on device configuration and location. Here is where things stand and how to check availability where you are.

Apple Store Pickup

The option to reserve an ‌iPhone Duo‌ for ‌Apple Store‌ pickup resumed in the U.S. and Canada on Saturday morning, between 5:10 a.m. and 5:15 a.m. Pacific Time. Apple first offered pickup briefly when pre-orders opened on October 16, but the option disappeared within minutes. It began returning in countries such as Australia, China, Japan, and South Korea on Friday, and on Saturday the pickup system was also back online in Australia, the U.K., Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Singapore, Japan, and China, among others.

If you want to manually check pickup availability at your local ‌Apple Store‌, follow these steps:

1. Head to the iPhone Duo order page and select your color, storage, and other options.
2. Proceed to the checkout screen and look for the pick up in-store option.
3. Enter your ZIP code or postcode to see which models are available for pickup with a reserved time slot.

When pickup resumed on Saturday, October 24, inventory was extremely limited and most stores had no pickup slots available that day, so it's worth checking the pickup tool often. On launch day itself, long queues formed at many Apple Stores around the world, indicating demand was high, and yet some customers managed to secure an ‌iPhone Duo‌ on a walk-in basis. As the hours passed, however, walk-in customers were increasingly walking out empty-handed.

Delivery Times Can Improve

At pre-order opening on October 16, delivery estimates for some configurations had already pushed into late January. At the time, Apple described demand as "nothing short of extraordinary" and said it was working to satisfy demand "as quickly as possible," so there's a good chance that, even if a delivery estimate for your order is way out in the future, it could improve over time.

iPhone Duo Pricing

‌iPhone Duo‌ starts at $1,999 for 256GB, with 512GB at $2,199, 1TB at $2,599, and 2TB at $3,199 on Apple's U.S. store. In the UK, the same storage tiers run £1,999, £2,199, £2,599, and £3,199 on Apple's UK store.

Carrier Issues Reported

Carrier orders and resellers have had their own problems. For example, Verizon apologized for iPhone Duo pre-order delays after customers reported missing tracking information through launch week, and the carrier compensated those affected.

Keep an Eye on Community Reports

For real-world accounts of stock and queues from other buyers, the Waiting In Line thread on the MacRumors forums has been collecting grassroots field reports since launch day, so it could be worth checking back on that thread regularly.

Apple increased its share of worldwide PC shipments in the third quarter of 2026, with Counterpoint Research crediting the MacBook Neo for some of the company's resilience during a market downturn.

The firm's preliminary estimates put Mac shipments at 5.6 million units, an 11% decrease from the same quarter last year. Worldwide PC shipments fell 21% to 57 million units, allowing Apple's market share to increase from 8.7% to 9.8%. Counterpoint identified the ‌MacBook Neo‌ as a key contributor to Apple's performance.

The report explains how rising production costs are making replacement computers harder to afford. Higher memory and component prices have fed through to PC prices, prompting consumers to postpone purchases. Business fleet replacements and Windows migration sustained some demand, although neither was enough to prevent the overall contraction.

Apple remained the fourth-largest PC vendor by shipments. Lenovo led with a 26.3% share, followed by HP at 18.1% and Dell at 13.3%. Shipments at those companies declined 23%, 31%, and 25%, respectively.

ASUS, in fifth-place, was the only vendor among the top five to record a smaller annual decline than Apple. Its shipments fell 7%, giving it a 9.2% market share.

Counterpoint expects global PC shipments to decrease 27% year over year in the fourth quarter. Its forecast for 2027 suggests there will be broadly flat shipment volumes compared with 2026.

Apple today marks 25 years since the introduction of the original iPod, one of the company's most significant products and a major contributor to its expansion beyond the Mac.

Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPod on October 23, 2001, at a small press event in the Town Hall auditorium at Apple's Infinite Loop headquarters. Advertised as offering "1,000 songs in your pocket," the device combined a 5GB hard drive with a monochrome LCD display, a mechanical scroll wheel, and up to 10 hours of battery life.

The original model cost $399 and required a Mac with iTunes. Its FireWire connection transferred music and charged the battery, while automatic synchronization copied songs and playlists from the user's iTunes library. Apple said that an entire CD could be transferred in under 10 seconds and a collection of 1,000 songs in less than 10 minutes. The hard drive could also store documents and other files.