By Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews

Despite the fact that Apple was somewhat disappointed with the lines (or lack thereof) for the new iPhone 3GS on launch day, it sold over 1 million of the new, faster iPhone version in the first weekend. Thus, the new and improved iPhone availability widget is a boon, disappointing as search results might be.

At the time of this writing, for example, the widget shows things aren’t looking so good in California for availability at Apple stores. Click the above image to enlarge.

It’s improved this year previously, availability numbers were updated at the end of each business day. In fact, the page was usually taken down during the business day. However, this year, according to IFOAppleStore, the page is linked directly to Apple’s internal POS computers, and the data is updated hourly for each store.

California’s needn’t complain however: they could live in Delaware, which has only one Apple store, and is currently sold out across the board.