Update on Supply of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max
Back in late April/early May I was doing some travel and realized I had totally forgotten my 96 W charger for my work Macbook Pro at home. "Well," I thought, "no fun to spend my own cash on a new charger, but better than the disaster of losing capacity to work while traveling, guess I'll just pop into an Apple Store and pick one up."<p>They didn't have one. OK, I asked -- did they know anyone who did? "No clue, you might want to call Apple Support."<p>Doing so revealed that there were <i>none of these available anywhere</i>, and the schedule on which they were projected to be available was early July.<p>Fortunately, I had two fallbacks:<p>(1) I was traveling in metro LA, which meant that I could check craigslist or FB marketplace or whatever and maybe a handful of 15mm Angelinos would have something up for sale.<p>(2) The MBP charged via USB-C so presumably I could find anything that could deliver 96W or thereabouts and use it.<p>Option #1 panned out, but it was still a flashbulb moment for me indicating that we're not exactly in familiar territory economically. It isn't just consumption goods that are sometimes scarce, this was a key piece of equipment the lack of which might have interrupted my productive capacity entirely or forced the cost/adaptation of entirely new substitutes.