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Apple Already Sold Out of Initial White iPad Mini Pre-Order Stock
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lazyrighteye
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Yep. Saunter right up to a massive line and possibly not get one. Happy sauntering. 😀
Sorry maybe I went a bit overboard but it's just a great day for our team. 😀 Another successful product launch that demonstrates we're still winning by a wide margin. Huge numbers of pre-orders, incredible profits to follow, and technology that is so remarkable some people can't believe it's real.
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gnasher729
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Internet access when there is no WiFi nearby. Safari works without holding the iPad Mini to your ear, actually it works better because you can look at the screen.
And it's not _that_ much bigger than these phones that Samsung is selling. 😀
Bit confused here. Clearly adding USB 3.0 is a welcome improvement, but not innovation. Retina display on the 15" was innovation, on the 13" it's not. It can only be innovation once. Still a welcome improvement.
Fusion on a desktop machine _is_ innovation. It is _not_ a rebranded hybrid drive. It works completely differently. Now the principle "take some small, fast storage and combine with some slow, big storage and make it appear as if it was big and fast storage", that is very old, but what Fusion does was previously only available in data centres at huge cost.
Many potential buyers who said "Apple doesn't sell a 7" tablet but I want one, so I buy some other product" are now saying "Apple sells a 7" tablet but there's a waiting list, so I wait". Maybe not all, but many. And people make decisions in strange ways. Some people will now say "Apple sells a 7" tablet that I want, but there's a waiting list, and I don't want to wait, so I buy a 10" iPad right now". It isn't an entirely rational thing to do, but some people do.
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Do you really think nobody there thought about something as stupid as that??? Who is that run a multibillion company you or them?
Please
D.T.
macrumors G4
Buckeyestar
macrumors 6502a
Short-sided? What the heck does that mean? Is it a reference to the smaller side bezels? 😛
convergent
macrumors 68040
Right... after little Johnny opens his present all excited and then becomes horrified when he learns that his parents bought some off brand thing. Then his parents get mad at Johnny because he's ungrateful for the gift they bought, and take back all his presents. Johnny is then ostracized by his friends at Main St. Middle School because he's the only kid without a tablet, and he is so distraught that he takes to using drugs. Shortly later, he drops out of school.
So if you don't want to have your kids drop out of school as drug addicts, buy them an iPad instead of some off brand Android tablet!
(sorry, seen to many strange Time Warner commercials and not enough coffee yet this morning)
By the way, I got up at 3:00am and completed my purchase of a 16G black iPad Mini at 3:03am EST. I guess I should have bought a white one, because the black one I could have ordered now with no problem.
NewYorkRanger
macrumors 6502
Dear lord, this post is absolutely embarrassing.
If you don't actually work for Apple, you just double downed on being a douche.
Krazy Bill
macrumors 68030
What risk? Things happened the way any company wants them to happen with a new product. SOLD OUT. Production is actually limited to achieve this very result.
Since when is it ever too early for a company to take your money?
I finished my order around 3:08 AM and it still said 2 weeks at that time ... maybe they are gauging the orders before offering dates.
is not hard to assume people dont want a nice black mini getting all scratched, thats why.
lord patton
macrumors 65816
Don't know why I'm taking the bait, but how do you know the size of either the initial supply or the number of pre-orders?
Nope, I won't. The early reviews said the screen looked fine. I doubt the screen will be horrible looking, plus I never game on my iPad. Only browse and watch Netflix.
D.T.
macrumors G4
Well, I pulled the trigger. Pre-ordered the white 64gig AT&T cellular model. First time I ever ordered an Apple product without seeing it in person first.
I am still using my first gen iPad with an unlimited data plan from AT&T. Gonna transfer the plan to the iPad mini since I am grandfathered in.
I just think the size of the mini will be perfect for me since I travel ALOT. I plan to shoot and edit travel videos and pictures with it, as well as blog. So the mini was a no brainer.
Anyway....can't wait till mid November. Hope it arrives by my birthday Nov 22nd ;-)
I am still using my first gen iPad with an unlimited data plan from AT&T. Gonna transfer the plan to the iPad mini since I am grandfathered in.
I just think the size of the mini will be perfect for me since I travel ALOT. I plan to shoot and edit travel videos and pictures with it, as well as blog. So the mini was a no brainer.
Anyway....can't wait till mid November. Hope it arrives by my birthday Nov 22nd ;-)
Anuba
macrumors 68040
Hm. I preordered a white one this morning... never went for the white version of any iGadget before but this time it felt like the natural choice.
Must be that damn piano duet ad manipulating me from my subconscious. Curse you, cute advertising, curse you back to the 7th layer of hell!
Must be that damn piano duet ad manipulating me from my subconscious. Curse you, cute advertising, curse you back to the 7th layer of hell!
rdlink
macrumors 68040
Wow. Been waiting for this device for months, perhaps years. But you'd rather have it in the color you didn't choose first than wait an extra six days. Pretty unbelievable.😕
ds2000
macrumors 6502a
My guess is that you've never tried to buy a loaf of bread before a snowstorm
I remember the asians thinking they were going to scalp the iPad 3 only to have to return it later on because they couldnt sell it for a profit like they had in the past. My guess is that you wont see launch day lines at all.
Me TOO!!!
Was surprised that Ireland was getting it day one, but seems maybe they underestimated the demand elsewhere. Doesn't seem fair - surely they should have allocated a certain number for each country.