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12:01PDT never means 12:01PDT for live Pre Order
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As far as I can tell, Apple works exceptionally hard to make people happy ... which is why so many people purchase and use their products.
It has nothing to do with some bizarre notion that Apple is trying to make everyone unhappy. The reason why they won't do it is that it risks exposing details about their operations that their competitors would love to see.
I’m actually being honest my apple store app doesn’t have anything but the we have something special for you screen usually for a few minutes and a few app open and closures before it loads up which is usually beyond 12:01. Can you read? I started by saying I start reopening the app at 12 so how on earth would that be suggesting anything other than “maybe others should start a little earlier than 12:01 since it’s not always exact.” So it was helping ppl not telling them wait a few minutes.I think you guys are right. Just sleep in and try it about 12:05 or 12:10,everything will be fine.
I saying this to get you extra zzzzzz not because I want to beat you to a phone, trust me
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You have to open and close it you don’t refresh as its downs hours before the pre order.
When we place an order on 10/27, does anyone know the steps you have to take to select either UPS delivery or in store pickup? Any of the 8 users go through this?
I always think the site doesn’t come up until say 12:05pst, but then it’s always those who post in the threads “order submitted at 12:01”
I almost feel they purge cache when they make the store live and it becomes available based on location similar to a Cloudflare cache purge, but I have nothing concrete to prove that.
I do know for a fact though I’ve seen my phone get on lte get the store first while my computer still had the maintenance page or vise versa. DNS flushed, etc.. so not cache on my device for sure
I almost feel they purge cache when they make the store live and it becomes available based on location similar to a Cloudflare cache purge, but I have nothing concrete to prove that.
I do know for a fact though I’ve seen my phone get on lte get the store first while my computer still had the maintenance page or vise versa. DNS flushed, etc.. so not cache on my device for sure
I'm also curious about this.
Will the app light up a the right time or is quitting/relaunching it necessary to get it going?
One thing I haven’t seen mentioned is that this launch is wide open with the countries. 56 in total I believe. Usually it’s only 8-9 countries that are available for a launch day release. That’s not going to make it any easier. So all previous launch day preorder numbers may not be relevant.
Pro Tip for those using the Apple Store app.
Prior to Friday morning, go through the configuration of the X you want and then press the little heart icon to mark this as a favorite. Now you can just go to favorites and select the phone and everything will be configured (storage, color, carrier option) and waiting for you to press Continue once it becomes activated.
Then you can cycle back and forth between Favorites and the phone to refresh.
Prior to Friday morning, go through the configuration of the X you want and then press the little heart icon to mark this as a favorite. Now you can just go to favorites and select the phone and everything will be configured (storage, color, carrier option) and waiting for you to press Continue once it becomes activated.
Then you can cycle back and forth between Favorites and the phone to refresh.
Yes it does, I did it with iPhone 8. I did it for ip 6s. I always get a 8am pickup time
You have to open and close is it. I just use the app switcher and switch back between another app and it will pop on
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That is cause it’s not on launch day or week of. Launch day and some days past will make you select a time...
Yes it will ask you what you want on the same screen when you pay..
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I’m sure it’s the same
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It’s a split launch which we know is the first time. So no the precious numbers don’t matter..
You won’t have an option to hit favorites while waiting. It’s just a “will be back soon” page with no icons to tap at the bottom.
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And dude don’t tell People about that, let them take longer! Lol
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2 ways, switching between that and another app. Or close it completely and open. I have switched between 2 apps for previous.
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And it’s fedex usually.
Same here...I remember when the App came up live early. I thought due to the late hour I was hallucinating, haha!!