Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

42mm Space Grey May 13 - 27

sojurn said:
Bayarea Ca here too, found out I'm at 12:06:09am. Still no movement here. I don't really know of anyone from Cali that's received there's.
Click to expand...
Yeah. California seems to hit a stall. Which really sucks, you'd think California would move up as fast as the rest of the country, but, we seem to be slower and a lot of Californians have been skipped or not making progress, weird! D: Wonder why, the entire West Coast seems to be behind, Apple's homestate too...
 
ashkir said:
Yeah. California seems to hit a stall. Which really sucks, you'd think California would move up as fast as the rest of the country, but, we seem to be slower and a lot of Californians have been skipped or not making progress, weird! D: Wonder why, the entire West Coast seems to be behind, Apple's homestate too...
Click to expand...

Tim Cook is delivering them himself 🙂
 
redman042 said:
I've been watching these posts and just read the article about the taptic engine issue. I feel like I have a good handle on how this is going to go:

  • The initial stockpiled batch has been shipped out and therefore the "burst" of shipments is over and done
  • Shipments are now going out based on current production rates (ie. much slower but steadier)
  • Based on confirmation email times, Apple's current production rate is equivalent to about 1 minute worth of orders a day
  • The taptic engine production rate may be the controlling factor. We know they switched suppliers and the new one is working on a ramp up. The peeling black sport bands may also be an issue.
  • Assuming they solve those, perhaps in a week or two, Apple will be shipping these out at a rate of about 2 minutes worth of orders per day, and so on

My SG sport confirmation is xx:12. If all goes well, this means I could see my card charged between the middle and the end of next week, which is much sooner than the 5/13-27 window I was given. Sure I want it sooner, and for a moment there I thought it could happen. But I am more realistic now.
Click to expand...


I wish I shared your optimism however they are definitely not moving at a rate of 1 minute per day. Let's assume for a moment that the initial batch produced enough product to fulfill the orders placed in the first two minutes (I say this as I have not seen anyone in this thread that orders in xx:01 or xx:02 in quite some time). If that was the case the slow and stead would push us at (your rate of one minute per day) to 07 today, however we are still circling the area of 03 and 04 with sporadic occurrence of 05 (for the purpose of this analysis I am dismissing any 06 as either outliers or trolls). I would imagine they are moving quite a bit slower than 1min/day which would put my order (late 05) sometime in the beginning to middle of next week if I am lucky.

Not trying to burst your bubble but hoping to truly paint a realistic picture for you. Either way it will deliver eventually.
 
16Paws said:
I wish I shared your optimism however they are definitely not moving at a rate of 1 minute per day. Let's assume for a moment that the initial batch produced enough product to fulfill the orders placed in the first two minutes (I say this as I have not seen anyone in this thread that orders in xx:01 or xx:02 in quite some time). If that was the case the slow and stead would push us at (your rate of one minute per day) to 07 today, however we are still circling the area of 03 and 04 with sporadic occurrence of 05 (for the purpose of this analysis I am dismissing any 06 as either outliers or trolls). I would imagine they are moving quite a bit slower than 1min/day which would put my order (late 05) sometime in the beginning to middle of next week if I am lucky.

Not trying to burst your bubble but hoping to truly paint a realistic picture for you. Either way it will deliver eventually.
Click to expand...

Come on now ... keep hope alive lol.
 
42mm SG
xx:08:01
still processing
cc didn't charge...

until I changed my address from Syracuse,NY to Fremont,CA....

I don't know what happened.....
 
16Paws said:
I wish I shared your optimism however they are definitely not moving at a rate of 1 minute per day. Let's assume for a moment that the initial batch produced enough product to fulfill the orders placed in the first two minutes (I say this as I have not seen anyone in this thread that orders in xx:01 or xx:02 in quite some time). If that was the case the slow and stead would push us at (your rate of one minute per day) to 07 today, however we are still circling the area of 03 and 04 with sporadic occurrence of 05 (for the purpose of this analysis I am dismissing any 06 as either outliers or trolls). I would imagine they are moving quite a bit slower than 1min/day which would put my order (late 05) sometime in the beginning to middle of next week if I am lucky.

Not trying to burst your bubble but hoping to truly paint a realistic picture for you. Either way it will deliver eventually.
Click to expand...

I agree. Unless, things change drastically over the next few days, most of us with double digit time stamps are probably looking at Apple's original May 13-27 time frame for delivery; which would mean they fulfilled their promise. What is curious is the 5 day gap between the first wave 4/14-5/8 and our group. Why the 5 day hiatus??? This leads me to believe that the taptic issue was probably known before the release date and accounted for.
 
fcortese said:
I agree. Unless, things change drastically over the next few days, most of us with double digit time stamps are probably looking at Apple's original May 13-27 time frame for delivery; which would mean they fulfilled their promise. What is curious is the 5 day gap between the first wave 4/14-5/8 and our group. Why the 5 day hiatus??? This leads me to believe that the taptic issue was probably known before the release date and accounted for.
Click to expand...

I agree with this. Completely. There is no way they just found out about this today and informed the media immediately. They knew about this situation for awhile.
 
Goaliegeek said:
My watch will be here tomorrow! Posted earlier than I got charged around 3:00am mst today. The charges were pending till about 4:15pm. Got an email confirmation of shipping at 4:45. Tracking info became visible at 7:30. My friends order did the same thingy the exact same time. Coming from Ontario, CA. Definitely seems like regions are going in batches. My other friends mom get her pink band today.
Click to expand...

Hell yeah buddy! Apple Watches all around!!!! Quick turn around!
 
ximo03 said:
42mm SG
xx:08:01
still processing
cc didn't charge...

until I changed my address from Syracuse,NY to Fremont,CA....

I don't know what happened.....
Click to expand...

xx:05:15 confirmation here. Still processing, central UT address for delivery.

No charges had been pending until I updated my email address for notification of changes. Pending charge hit within minutes. I think Apple hits an account with the pending charge immediately on any order details changes, like when you first place your order. It'll fall off I'm sure.

I have doubts that even the "actual" order time given by support reps is reflective of the time the request entered the database. I'm not exactly sure why they would have that information as opposed to "order completion time" which would likely be logged after the whole process and not just the entry to the database.

Confirmation email delivery is certainly no indicator of original order -- to send out as many confirmation emails as Apple did they would have had to be using multiple email servers. Each purchase gets made, and a "job" is sent to a random email server to deliver. If one server churns through emails even slightly faster than another, emails sent from that machine get there faster than emails sent from the other machines. Sending out a few hundred thousand emails in a few minutes is not an easy task and it is impossible to send that many emails in that short of a time and ensure perfect delivery order.

So when we see confirmation times of xx:06:xx getting shipped before xx:05:xx or even xx:04:xx, it is more likely an email delivery issue more than anything. And not just from "sent" to "received", but an issue between "scheduled to send" and "sent."

I actually fully believe these are being sent out in roughly perfect chronological order from when the order hit the database. Or that they are least being manufactured in that order (per model, of course). It would be harder to do it out of order than in order, from a systems standpoint.
 
I think I was in the double digits, but have no way to find out since the original confirmation was sent to INSTAPAPER! 😡

Anyway, mine shipped today but I was bummed to find out it is going to take a full 5 business days to get to me so I'll be wearing the new watch next Wednesday. Guess I should have sprung for faster shipping.

First watch for the wife shipped over night, go figure.
 
I ordered the 42mm SG/Black at XX:06 and my shipping time is still May 13-27, I have to admit I really expected it to reduce but c'est la vie.
 
sammyman said:
I think I was in the double digits, but have no way to find out since the original confirmation was sent to INSTAPAPER! 😡



Anyway, mine shipped today but I was bummed to find out it is going to take a full 5 business days to get to me so I'll be wearing the new watch next Wednesday. Guess I should have sprung for faster shipping.



First watch for the wife shipped over night, go figure.
Click to expand...


Sorry, I don't believe any of this.
 
sammyman said:
You're right. UPS choice notified me of a different package that is shipping.



My Apple order was charged, but still "Processing". Bummer. Maybe it will ship tomorrow.
Click to expand...


I believe you said earlier that you changed your address? If you do that it will automatically re-authorize the purchase causing a pending charge. Sadly that doesn't mean it will ship. Either way... When it does it will be sent over night to you. Hope you see it soon.
 
gburnham said:
xx:05:15 confirmation here. Still processing, central UT address for delivery.

No charges had been pending until I updated my email address for notification of changes. Pending charge hit within minutes. I think Apple hits an account with the pending charge immediately on any order details changes, like when you first place your order. It'll fall off I'm sure.

I have doubts that even the "actual" order time given by support reps is reflective of the time the request entered the database. I'm not exactly sure why they would have that information as opposed to "order completion time" which would likely be logged after the whole process and not just the entry to the database.

Confirmation email delivery is certainly no indicator of original order -- to send out as many confirmation emails as Apple did they would have had to be using multiple email servers. Each purchase gets made, and a "job" is sent to a random email server to deliver. If one server churns through emails even slightly faster than another, emails sent from that machine get there faster than emails sent from the other machines. Sending out a few hundred thousand emails in a few minutes is not an easy task and it is impossible to send that many emails in that short of a time and ensure perfect delivery order.

So when we see confirmation times of xx:06:xx getting shipped before xx:05:xx or even xx:04:xx, it is more likely an email delivery issue more than anything. And not just from "sent" to "received", but an issue between "scheduled to send" and "sent."

I actually fully believe these are being sent out in roughly perfect chronological order from when the order hit the database. Or that they are least being manufactured in that order (per model, of course). It would be harder to do it out of order than in order, from a systems standpoint.
Click to expand...

forgot to say the xx:08:01 is when I placed my order. Got the email at xx:08:24
 
😉
16Paws said:
I believe you said earlier that you changed your address? If you do that it will automatically re-authorize the purchase causing a pending charge. Sadly that doesn't mean it will ship. Either way... When it does it will be sent over night to you. Hope you see it soon.
Click to expand...

I only changed the shipping email under "Shipment Notifications". Would that re-authorize the purchase? I'm on chat right now to see if they can tell me what time the order processed.
 
My 42mm Space Gray arrived today. It's been a fun, frustrating, nerve-wracking, and exciting ride. Good luck to everyone else.

For the curious, here are my order details:
Received email confirmation on 4/10 at 12:05am
Received shipping notification on 4/28 at 3:16pm
UPS delivered on 4/29.
Location: WA

To commemorate #TeamSG46, I added this monogram in the Color watchface.
ImageUploadedByTapatalk1430369650.488789.jpg
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back