As we record, we are recording on Thursday, November 19th.

I have seen reports now on Twitter that people are saying that the Apple pencils are actually

starting to appear in retail stores.

I saw somebody was in San Francisco and there's a whole bunch of them available.

Yeah.

Yesterday, the Wednesday, the 18th, there were a lot of reports that it looked to me like

that they were making an effort to get them out.

There were a whole bunch of reports of like, I saw five of them here and there were 20 of them there.

And I thought that was a good sign and there's more of that today.

So it looks like whatever was going on, whatever a logistical bottleneck was there, maybe has

a, if not, if it hasn't solved itself at least as widened the bottleneck a little bit.

I'm curious to see what happens to people who like were promised three or four week shipping

dates like a week or two ago, whether they start getting them way earlier than promised

or whether the shipping ones still take as long as they had thought.

Yeah, that's the, I wonder sometimes if Apple has really thought through the whole dichotomy

of shipping versus Apple Store, you know, retail store pickup because with the Apple TV,

I wonder how many returns they're going to get where people bottom the moment that it

was for sale had them shipped on the cheaper shipping so they'd get them the next week

and then found that they were all in the Apple stores on the day.

That's what happened to me.

I got my box and just put the label back on it and sent it back out because three days

earlier, I just walked into my local Apple store and picked one up.

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