Gadget shoppers from Hong Kong to London to New York waited on long lines Friday to purchase Apple Inc.’s latest iPhones. But some arrived at retailers to find that certain store models were already scratched.
The deep blue variants of the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max exhibited scuffs after just a few hours of being on display, Bloomberg News found from visits to Apple stores in New York, Hong Kong, Shanghai and London. The black iPhone Air also showed itself to be prone to scratching, the reporters observed.