I went by Apple’s Canadian Flagship store this week and there was a lineup of about 100 people waiting for iPhone 4. Actually, waiting just to see if there’d be a shipment of iPhone 4 so they could lineup for those. Apple staff said it’s been happening every day around 10am. Even some of the smaller stores are seeing dozens of people lining up every morning. Checking with carrier stores it was the same, only they had less stock to begin with. So did the Best Buys and other big boxes. As Apple COO Tim Cook said about the US launch a month earlier, iPhone 4 is selling out as fast as Apple can make and deliver them.

This isn’t launch day. This isn’t artificial supply constraints. This isn’t a product that’s only available in Apple Stores. This is a single phone sold in probably more places than any other phone. It’s on every carrier, it’s in every tele-franchise, it’s in every big box.

Or it would be, if they had stock.

Curiously, Apple hasn’t put out a press release with post-international launch sales numbers, but we’ll keep an eye on next quarter’s result.

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There’s a rumor — repeat, rumor — going around that Apple will switch the Apple TV to iOS and rename it iTV, and that seems to be enough to get British broadcaster ITV all dressed and wigged up in litigation clothes.

“You only have to look at recent problems with the iPhone 4 to see not everything Apple produces is gold dust. We all take our ITV brand very seriously and we’ll do everything in our power to protect it.”

Ouch. Meow.

Apple for their part is staying mum:

“Apple does not comment on rumours and speculation.”

We’ve seen Apple take iPhone and iOS from Cisco and work out licensing deals later. Could iTV be next and this saber-rattling just a way to tell Apple they better open up that Cupertino vault?

[Mirror, thanks to everyone who sent it in!]

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During QuakeCon 2010, ID Software’s co-founder John Carmack demoed Rage on a iPhone 4 running at a very impressive 60 frames-per-second. And what’s maybe even more impressive is the fact that Carmack believes this game will “kill anything done on the Xbox or PlayStation 2.” We first heard of Rage coming to the iPhone and iPad back in March so it’s good to see that this is finally going to happen and sooner rather than later.

Any first-person-shooter fan out there should definitely be chomping at the bit to see this one land into the App Store “later this year”. And if one title is not enough, perhaps the planned sequel that will be available just in time for the 2011 launch of the PC version will make you happy.

Check out the most impressive video after the break!

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My current Twitter avatar is a WeeMee for iPhone creation. It’s quick, it’s easy and it produces great results. What’s better than that?

Oh, yeah, getting it for free! Well, the kind folks at WeeMee have given us a ton of promo codes to give away for the latest, iOS4 compatible version of WeeMee Avatar Creator [iTunes]. If you want one, here’s all you have to do:

• Follow @weemeeapp and @TiPb on Twitter
• Send a Twitter #followfriday shout-out to @weemeeapp and @TiPb

We’ve given the writers some extra codes to give away as well, so if you want to double, triple, octuple your odds of getting one, just follow any or all of the below and include them in your shout-out:

• @reneritchie (Rene)
• @backlon (Dieter)
• @iChadman (Chad)
• @JFSikora (Jeremy)
• @llofte (Leanna)
• @GeorgiaTiPb (Georgia)
• @iMuggle (Ally)

Ready, set, Tweet!

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Once again the internet is flooded with catchy headlines that Android outsold iPhone for the first half of 2010. And why not, that’s a great headline. But it’s also — to quote the Simpsons — unpossible.

Which Android device out sold iPhone? No, not the one with the GBs. Android is an OS, not a device. iPhone is a device, not an OS. Android is also not sold, it’s given away by Google for free. Android devices are what’s sold.

Maybe a more accurate, if admittedly awkward, headline would have been “All Android devices combined on all carriers in the US sold more than the iPhone on AT&T during the period where Apple constrained supply right before iPhone 4 launch”.

That’s not to say there aren’t Android devices that sell phenomenally well. Just one look at Android Central, especially any of the articles on Verizon’s Droid brand, will show tons of hot-selling devices. It’s just a completely different business model. No, not a truly open one, but one that values diversity. (I think there’s a good chance my fridge is even running Android now!)

In Canada, and many other countries, iPhone is available on pretty much every carrier and unlocked directly from Apple. There’s no Verizon Droid brand here. The original Droid is called the Motorola Milestone and any bets how well it sells on Telus compared to the iPhone?

Even in the US Verizon’s Motorola Droid 2 just launched yesterday to little in the way of lineups. Anyone think it will outsell iPhone 4 in Q3?

Point being, the US market is in no way, shape, or form able to express any meaningful “Android outsells iPhone” numbers or vice versa.

If iPhone shows up on Verizon next year, or better yet on Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile US, then at least the carrier field will make for more useful comparison.

And maybe that’s the point of Apple wanting iPhone on Verizon, because Android is coming on so strongly and with such good handsets lately.

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