De acordo com o MacRumors, a Apple teria orientado funcionários das suas lojas a alertarem os clientes, no dia do lançamento do iPhone Duo — marcado para esta sexta-feira, 23 de outubro — de que é necessário já ter feito a reserva para retirada, o que desencorajaria quem costuma comprar os produtos presencialmente.

Segundo o site, funcionários das Apple Stores teriam sido informados de que muito provavelmente não haverá unidades do iPhone Duo disponíveis para quem tentar realizar a compra presencial do novo aparelho no dia do seu lançamento — daí a orientação para que os consumidores não compareçam às lojas sem reserva do Duo.

O jornalista da Bloomberg, Mark Gurman, porém, rebateu diretamente as especulações, afirmando que nenhuma comunicação nessa linha foi realizada:

There's been zero communication to Apple retail stores saying this. Perhaps a manager at select stores told employees this, but nothing like this has been communicated to date. I'm not saying it won't happen, but it hasn't. https://t.co/yp7kPJr88j

— Mark Gurman (@markgurman) October 18, 2026

Como já relatamos aqui, os prazos de entrega do iPhone Duo na loja online oficial da Apple chegam a janeiro nos Estados Unidos e a fevereiro no Brasil.

Embora a empresa tenha declarado que está “trabalhando intensamente” para disponibilizar o Duo para compra “o mais rápido possível”, tentar adquirir o iPhone Duo por meios oficiais segue sendo um desafio e tanto, por enquanto.

Atualização, por Bruno Cardoso 19/10/2026 às 16:09

A Apple publicou mensagens em seus sites japonês e sul-coreano dizendo que, por um período limitado, apenas compradores que fizeram a reserva do iPhone Duo ou do iPhone 18 Pro Max poderão buscá-los nas lojas da empresa nesses países.

Em outras palavras, consumidores japoneses/sul-coreanos que forem até uma Apple Store no dia de seu lançamento sem ter feito a pré-compra do aparelho provavelmente voltarão frustrados.

Ainda não está claro se essa política se espalhará para outras localidades.

via MacRumors

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Those who remember PC gaming in the days before Steam may have fond memories of the "big box" packaging that made those games stand out as shelf eye candy and sought-after in-home collectibles. Today, PC gaming platform GOG is hoping to reignite some of the nostalgia for those days by adding downloadable 3D models and printable, foldable high-res packaging scans for a handful of PC games on the platform.

Thus far, the "Printable Big Box" collection on GOG is limited to just five games: Armikrog, Descent, Hitman: Codename 47, Myst, and Star Trek: 25th Anniversary. Players browsing those games on the GOG store will now see "3D Boxes" listed among the included "Goodies" before purchase. Owners of those games on GOG can download a ZIP file containing a version of the box art as an animated 3D object file (in an easy-to-open GLB format) and a "flat printable template" in PDF, SVG, and Adobe Illustrator formats. Those downloads allow for what GOG calls "a proper papercraft project for anyone who misses shelves full of PC game boxes."

The 3D model animates to show the front flap opening. Credit: GOG

"Physical media doesn’t survive the way software can—boxes get lost, crushed, thrown out," GOG writes in today's announcement. "Scanning them, and letting you print your own, is preservation in a different shape: the same mission that keeps these games running on modern PCs, applied to the objects they used to come in."

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