Apple's iPhone Ultra might have a staggered, country-by-country rollout

We've heard rumors that Apple's foldable iPhone Ultra would be late, and we've heard reports that it will launch and be made available in September alongside the iPhone 18 Pro models. But can both of these be true? A new report from Australian outlet Channelnews claims that the iPhone Ultra would face a staggered rollout, starting with the U.S. and then trickling down to other countries. The outlet quotes a Chinese supplier who claims that the iPhone Ultra will face significant supply and pricing issues, as well as "testing issues" with the "production models that have already been built." Due to these, the report claims, the iPhone Ultra will likely be launched in September but would initially be in limited supply, with "allocation to markets outside the U.S. (...) likely to be even tighter," meaning local availability "could trail the U.S. launch by up to two to three months." The report doesn't into details on which countries would get first dibs besides saying that Australia is probably "at the back of the queue." If the report is accurate, this would make the iPhone Ultra launch somewhat similar to the launch of Apple's Vision Pro, which originally launched in the U.S. and was

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