A survey in 36 AT&T stores by Channel Checkers says that Apple and AT&T may not be able to meet initial demands for the iPhone. Well, sort of. Sixty-four per cent of the stores have a 25-person wait list or more, and one store in New York City (which the research rejected as an extreme) had a 1,979-person waiting list. “Another store said ‘we cannot give out that figure but the waiting list is running into the thousands,’” the report says. “Another store reported that the number of calls for the phone was ‘indeterminable’ as the numbers were massive.”

Added to this extreme number of wait lists in some Apple/AT&T stores is the apparent delay in the manufacturing end because the Taiwanese Hon Hai, which has been contracted to make the iPhone, has suffered a delay in the shipment of parts. Read our past iPhone coverage here.

[via macworld]