I stopped by the mall to see what sort of cases the Apple store might have that AT&T did not have. Well, there was a huge and yes I mean huge line snaking out of the Apple store and down and around the kids play area. From the sounds of things, people were waiting for 5+ hours to get a phone. That said, it also sounds like the store had quite a stock on hand to handle demands. From the sounds of things, they must have had 500 or more phones available unlike the AT&T store who had less than 50.
My next stop what the AT&T store in the mall and as guessed, they were out before they opened.