Reuters filed iPhone Duo as pricier than 18 Pro at Ternus's first event, with shelves in the October copy this paper has been carrying. [1] Friday, September 11, is not October. An unveiling is not a ship. 18 Pro is not the foldable. Print October. Do not print in-store today. No Apple store photo of Duo on a Friday shelf is in fetched copy.

October is a month. Friday recap that puts Duo on a shelf today is a feed, not Reuters.
No Friday store photo is in Cupertino copy, so October remains the shelf month.
A missing ship-today is filed as missing, not imagined.
Friday is not October.
Shelves remain October, not a Friday aisle.

Monday can recap; Friday cannot ship.
Unveiling-to-shelf gaps are Apple's pressure valve for supply chains. Several weeks is normal. Friday sits inside the normal wait.

Carrier silence is normal; announcements come in waves. Friday's wave carried no Duo. October stays the only month.

Waveless Fridays ship nothing; Friday shipped none. Shipping none is the update. October stays the month.

Unveiling-to-shelf gaps are Apple's supply-chain valve. Several weeks is normal. Friday's wave carried no Duo.

This Friday is not a ship week. The other phone remains 18 Pro, priced and dated apart from the foldable. Reuters put Duo on October shelves, and no store photograph contradicts that. Nobody is buying the foldable in an aisle today.
Reuters put Duo on October shelves. This Friday is not a ship week. No store photograph contradicts October.

Reuters put Duo on October shelves. This Friday is not a ship week. No store photograph contradicts October.

-- DAVID CHEN, Beijing