This data is from approximately 5:55PM Central Time on 10/12/2015. There have been some changes to availability from yesterday evening's post.

There have been a ton of changes for today.

Sprint

• 16GB Rose Gold iPhone 6s improved a week to 1-2 weeks.
• 16GB Silver iPhone 6s Plus improved a week to 1-2 weeks.
• 16GB Space Gray iPhone 6s Plus improved a week to 1-2 weeks.
• 16GB Gold iPhone 6s Plus improved a week to 1-2 weeks.
• 64GB Silver iPhone 6s Plus improved a week to 1-2 weeks.
• 64GB Space Gray iPhone 6s Plus improved a week to 1-2 weeks.
• 64GB Gold iPhone 6s Plus improved a week to 1-2 weeks.
• 64GB Rose Gold iPhone 6s Plus improved a week to 1-2 weeks.
• 128GB Gold iPhone 6s Plus improved a week to 1-2 weeks.

T-Mobile

• 16GB Rose Gold iPhone 6s improved a week or so to 10-14 days.
• 64GB Silver iPhone 6s improved a few days to 7-10 days, from 10-14.
• 64GB Gold iPhone 6s improved two weeks to 2-4 weeks.
• 64GB Rose Gold iPhone 6s improved two weeks to 2-4 weeks.
• 64GB Rose Gold iPhone 6s Plus improved two weeks to 4-6 weeks.
• 128GB Space Gray iPhone 6s Plus is now available from 2-4 weeks.
• 128GB Gold has improved four weeks to 2-4 weeks, from 6-8 weeks.

Verizon

• 64GB Gold iPhone 6s has gone from out of stock to 10/14.
• 16GB Space Gray iPhone 6s Plus is now available.

This data is from approximately 6:25PM Central Time on 10/11/2015. There has been only one change to availability from yesterday evening's post.

Verizon

• 64GB Silver is now out of stock.

This data is from approximately 7:05PM Central Time on 10/10/2015. There have been some changes to availability from yesterday evening's post.

There have been no changes since last night.

This data is from approximately 6:30PM Central Time on 10/09/2015. There have been some changes to availability from yesterday evening's post.

There have been some more changes from the carriers.

Sprint

• 16GB Rose Gold iPhone 6s has improved a week to 2-3 weeks.
• 64GB Rose Gold iPhone 6s Plus has improved from 4-5 weeks to 2-3 weeks
• 128GB Rose Gold iPhone 6s Plus has improved from 4-5 weeks to 2-3 weeks

T-Mobile

• 128GB Space Gray iPhone 6s Plus has improved 2 weeks to 2-4 weeks

Verizon

• 64GB Space Gray iPhone 6s Plus has slipped a week to 11/2
• 64GB Rose Gold iPhone 6s Plus has slipped a week to 11/9

This data is from approximately 7:20PM Central Time on 10/07/2015. There have been some changes to availability from last night's update.

Only one change.

Sprint

• 128GB Rose Gold iPhone 6s Plus has slipped a week to 4-5 weeks

This data is from approximately 7:15PM Central Time on 10/04/2015. There have been some changes to availability from last night's update.

Only a couple of changes today.

AT&T

• 16GB Rose Gold iPhone 6s slipped from 3-5 days to 2-3 weeks.
• 64GB Rose Gold iPhone 6s slipped from 3-5 days to 3-4 weeks.
• 128GB Rose Gold iPhone 6s slipped from 3-5 days to 1 week.

Here's a tale of, is it meant to be or not, at the Oakbrook, IL Apple Store. I woke my sorry ass up at 5 am to be at the Oakbrook Apple store by 6. I actually arrived at 5:45. I was about #35 in line. I figured waiting two hours isn't bad, even three wouldn't be bad. But waiting 6 1/2 hours isn't what I had planned.

The Oakbrook apple store had about 350 people in line at about 10:00 am, with more coming. At exactly 8, they did let in the first 15 people. I, along with everybody else was thinking, cool... 45 minutes to an hour, we'll be out of here. No Dice. It turns out that the Apple store had a "power outage" the night before from the storms that rolled through. Now, this would normally be plausible since we did have some nasty storms roll through. The little thing that gave away Apple's B.S. in the matter is that less than 30 minutes later they changed their story.

It was their Point of Sale server that crashed, and they didn't know how long it would be. Most stores, having a huge pending revenue stream (I figured about $200,000 for the iPhones to be sold that day alone) would go ahead and check their Point of Sale (POS) system when they arrive, just to verify. Even by taking the first person in line and letting them know that they can't leave until after 8, but still, they could go ahead pay for their phone now. No, of course not, that would make sense.

After nobody had left the store after about 45 minutes (8:45 or so), they came out and told us that it was now an activation problem on AT&T's end. People were starting to get irritated. It was a humid, 80 degrees by 8:00 am. So having the sun, heat, and humidity and having to wait longer than anticipated was not what most had in mind. But nobody really complained.

The story changed several times throughout the morning, it's a "nationwide problem", "it's an Apple Only problem, not AT&T", "It's an Activation Server Problem."

At about 10:15 or so, they came back out and said that their POS system was down, but Apple corporate made the Oakbrook store their #1 priority. I already knew it wasn't a "nationwide issue" since I was getting tweets from others at other are stores about getting their phones and heading out the door. Finally, at about 11:00 the first people started trickling out. Their POS System was back up, but activation was taking forever.

So, they had people activate their phones at home, but did not announce this to the crowd at large. I finally left, with my 16GB Black in Hand (Thanks to an Early Birthday gift from the best girlfriend in the world), at 12:15pm or so. A full 6 1/2 hours after initially arriving.

Now, to the stores credit, they did provide water, and still had a ton remaining when I left. The crowd, being as understanding, didn't riot, didn't complain (too much). Overall, it was a good crowd, up in the front anyway. None of the other fanboys and fangirls worried about people leaving to get something to eat, drink, or use the restroom. It was a pretty good crowd. We did however have one woman who managed to jump about 250 spots, just because her friend was further up, so she kept chatting with her, and moving with the crowd, but nobody said anything. Not that any of us really cared, we just wanted our damn phones.

Once inside the Apple Store, everybody was great (the Air Conditioning was really nice). I did send an email to Sjobs@apple.com, about the poor planning, and failure to test their systems before hand. Which, if they would have done at 6AM, probably would have sped the whole process up by 2 hours, and it would not have been as bad. The email has yet to receive a response, as of the writing of this. I sent the email at 9:17AM on 7/11/08.

I didn't attend the launch last year, I went on Saturday and was #4 in line at that point.

Here is the coverage map of the majority of the area that I go, most of it is covered with 3G.

We'll see how well the battery holds up.

Apple released their Update to the iPhone to 1.1.1. This has had several impacts on many users. The 1.1.1 'update' has broken ALL 3rd Party Applications, Ringtones, and Sim Card Unlock programs. This has 'broken' many iPhones to the point where they no longer work.

I myself have 'upgraded' my phone to 1.0.2, put my ringtones back, added 3rd party apps. Most of the time I have no problem just using what's given to me, but I refuse to do so in this case. I used the directions from IphoneAtlas.com The baseband (modem) firmware wasn't changed, but I was able to get 3rd party applications on my iPhone.

As I stated in the TWIT.TV Forums in Regards to the Engadget Open Letter to Apple & iPhone Customers

"My take on the entire situation is that I'd like to see Apple allow 3rd party apps, easily (ala SDK), or provide an iPhone Hacker Edition, which they will only support the hardware, yet allow 3rd party applications. Provide the base OS, nothing more. They could even charge a bit more, not much, like $25 or even $50. Almost make it an open-source type phone (Unlocked Of Course). Make it GSM to allow the biggest customer base of consumers.."

I think this would work on several levels, They could write the code once for the 'hacker edition' and then never submit another update, or just send an update that wouldn't touch any 3rd party apps, just fix any bugs that were within the OS code. This would allow those who don't want to mess with their phone, to purchase a 'locked' iPhone, and those who want to mess with the software to do so.

You'll hear more about the "bricked" iphones, than the non-bricked ones, because the community of iPhone users is very vocal, not much unlike the macintosh community.

IF apple instituted a subscription model for Applicatoins, I'd gladly pay $10 / month for plenty of good, useful applications and games. Items like a mobile chat client (ichat or adium), Customization options like changing the background, the icons for the different applications. and the look of the "dock".

I think that Apple will face severe backlash for the things that they have done to 'break' 3rd party applications. They do not have a unified message across all of their devices. They don't have a 'hacking' stance on the Apple TV. They do not say anything about those who 'hack' their Macs to do things they are not designed to do, so why would you have a 'hammer-lock' stance on a device that could potentially change an entire industry? It doesn't make sense. I myself am not happy with Apple and their stance on the iPhone. If they continue down this path of locking out users, they will find themselves not selling very many iPhones. This would be both a bad business move, and bad for the community for both Apple and AT&T.

I do not anticipate that the pending release of the next version of the Apple's Mac OS X, version 10.5 (Leopard), will be any less difficult to modify than Mac OS X, 10.4 (Tiger) currently is; but with the given trend, I can't say for certain. We'll all just have to wait until it is released sometime this month. I will be installing this update, Sans Boot-camp, once it's released, onto an External Hard drive, just to see what it's like, before committing to it. If I really wanted to, I could always put a new hard drive into my mac, and then replace the one in there, but using the one I have now is a better idea. I'll post my thoughts and comments on Leopard once it's out.