I’ll find out what kind of phones my friend bought. In any event, they were unlocked and he got them the first week the phones were released.
Dino, the iPhone 6 was released LAST Friday. If he did not get them this week, they were not an iPhone 6 of any kind. Apple just put this policy in place for this release to prevent resellers from grabbing the limited numbers of iPhones available for the various markets to feed the insatiable a Chinese gray market demand. When the iPhone 5S went on sale Chinese resellers were paying line sitters throughout Asia and Australia to buy-up whatever number they could get their hands on. There were riots in Hong Kong due to line crashes of these CalPers with quotas of iPhones to meet to get paid.
Rumors had large numbers of Chinese flying into major US cities to do the same thing for the iPhone 6 rollout here. Now, do you understand?