Yeah, I just checked and it ships in one business day. Not really "overwhelming", at least not at the moment. Maybe when the price comes down next year and they add a second USB-C port, 720p webcam, etc.
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Angela Ahrendts Updates Retail Employees on Apple Watch and MacBook Launch Situation
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Yeah, I just checked and it ships in one business day. Not really "overwhelming", at least not at the moment. Maybe when the price comes down next year and they add a second USB-C port, 720p webcam, etc.
How rare to find a well thought out and written comment here nowadays. I completely agree.
I was gonna buy new Macbook, but then I compared it with Macbook pro 13 inch and then I realised why the **** would I pay £1000 for this?
New Macbook
1.3GHz Dual-Core Intel Core M, Turbo Boost up to 2.9GHz
8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
256GB PCIe-based onboard flash storage
Intel HD Graphics 5300
£1,074.00(student discount)
Macbook Pro
3.1GHz Dual-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.4GHz
16GB 1866MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
128GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
Intel Iris Graphics 6100
£1,212.00(student discount)
New Macbook
1.3GHz Dual-Core Intel Core M, Turbo Boost up to 2.9GHz
8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
256GB PCIe-based onboard flash storage
Intel HD Graphics 5300
£1,074.00(student discount)
Macbook Pro
3.1GHz Dual-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.4GHz
16GB 1866MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
128GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
Intel Iris Graphics 6100
£1,212.00(student discount)
Yeah, I just checked and it ships in one business day. Not really "overwhelming", at least not at the moment. Maybe when the price comes down next year and they add a second USB-C port, 720p webcam, etc.
Nah...the next version will keep the single USB-C port but have a new single-key keyboard or maybe only an eraser-head pointer to point at an on-screen keyboard to type!
IMO, there was no supply. They have manufacturing capacity of x number of watches. They did the pre order on the 10th to see what watches had to be built for delivery on the 24th. There was no inventory, they took orders then built them. The manufacturing capacity is limited, no where near the iPhone and iPad. They have no idea how the watch will sell so they didn't start out with the capacity to make 10 million per month.
Good post. One of the few on this article.
Most of the remainder are ignorant cowards, conveniently hiding behind their anonymity to take pot shots at Angela and Apple. Despicable.
I'm sure I'll be proven wrong, but the overwhelming demand for MacBook seems like a contrived statement to me. Is it a nice laptop? Sure, but at that price with the cap on performance I don't get how demand would be so high. If it was in a lower price tier, I would get it... but I'll just do this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and move on.
So basically you're saying Tim Cook, Jony Ive and Jeff Williams need to go. This video wasn't intended for you or I or anyone else on the internet. It was meant for internal Apple employees. Man I wish people here had real problems to worry about.
Really, you polled everyone here and came upon that conclusion?
Waste of time. Why don't you, wise guy!
But that's not Angela Ahrendts fault. She doesn't control the supply chain nor decide when a product launches. People shouldn't be calling for her head because of supply constraints.
You were wrong as soon as you started typing. The product is and will continue to be a hit despite you skeptics and the bloggers who pander to you.
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So you go organize a launch of your wonderful products, wise guy, and see how easy it is.
I agree, no product available is not her fault. The new MacBook was not ready to launch and the watch really wasn't either. They stuck to a timeline instead of changing it and this is the result.
Watch Launch
Yes, Apple squeezed supply in order to manufacture demand. But, to call the launch a disaster is totally wrong. I believe that this is exactly the result Apple wanted...perhaps not delaying the first round of shipments, if promised by 4/24...but almost everything else is designed to be careful with the rollout of a brand new product and category.
Don't forget, everyone in the media was predicting the first Apple product flop in years...so can you blame them for taking on a "wait-and-see" approach to product stock?
If anything, Apple probably didn't predict that as many as 2.3 million units might sell worldwide in the first week/weekend.
Yes, Apple squeezed supply in order to manufacture demand. But, to call the launch a disaster is totally wrong. I believe that this is exactly the result Apple wanted...perhaps not delaying the first round of shipments, if promised by 4/24...but almost everything else is designed to be careful with the rollout of a brand new product and category.
Don't forget, everyone in the media was predicting the first Apple product flop in years...so can you blame them for taking on a "wait-and-see" approach to product stock?
If anything, Apple probably didn't predict that as many as 2.3 million units might sell worldwide in the first week/weekend.
After waiting in line at the iPhone 6 launch (started at 2am), and comparing it to the 
Watch launch, I'll take the iPhone 6 launch.
It was fun learning from the people around me (all much younger, and fun to be around) - in Charleston, SC, where the store is by the College of Charleston.
It was fun to have the Apple people come out and serve us drinks and food in line.
It was fun to anticipate the experience, and have the TV cameras there, catching all of us in our sleep deprived excitement.
It was fun to talk to someone who could answer the questions we had, and serve us by taking the 2 year upgrade from our home phone, and transfer it over to my phone, and not have to worry about being charged full price for the phone, which had 1 month left on the 2 year commitment.
and, most of all, it was fun to walk out of the store with a brand new iPhone 6.
Watch...
Well, it's fun to try on a watch that doesn't really do what you want it to do... OK, maybe not.
OK, then, it's fun to play with a watch that's attached to an iPad, and tells you all of the neat stuff it does... OK, well, I feel like I'm not really experiencing the watch as a watch.
OK, last one... It's fun to have someone hovering over you attaching the sport band to your wrist, and fumbling about while doing it, and then not sure what to do when you want to try it on yourself, and is a little put off when I ask, "Are you going to be putting it on my arm every day? Let me try it." *sigh*
Last, last one... It's not fun to want to buy something, and then told to go home and buy it online, and get behind everyone that bought 2 of them, and have to wait until June... July... August... for the thing to arrive. Plus, the fear that it'll arrive one week before theWatch 2 is announced.
Maybe I'm not the customer Apple is looking for in a watch, but I still want one. The shopping experience for it stinks for me, though.
Watch launch, I'll take the iPhone 6 launch.It was fun learning from the people around me (all much younger, and fun to be around) - in Charleston, SC, where the store is by the College of Charleston.
It was fun to have the Apple people come out and serve us drinks and food in line.
It was fun to anticipate the experience, and have the TV cameras there, catching all of us in our sleep deprived excitement.
It was fun to talk to someone who could answer the questions we had, and serve us by taking the 2 year upgrade from our home phone, and transfer it over to my phone, and not have to worry about being charged full price for the phone, which had 1 month left on the 2 year commitment.
and, most of all, it was fun to walk out of the store with a brand new iPhone 6.
Watch...Well, it's fun to try on a watch that doesn't really do what you want it to do... OK, maybe not.
OK, then, it's fun to play with a watch that's attached to an iPad, and tells you all of the neat stuff it does... OK, well, I feel like I'm not really experiencing the watch as a watch.
OK, last one... It's fun to have someone hovering over you attaching the sport band to your wrist, and fumbling about while doing it, and then not sure what to do when you want to try it on yourself, and is a little put off when I ask, "Are you going to be putting it on my arm every day? Let me try it." *sigh*
Last, last one... It's not fun to want to buy something, and then told to go home and buy it online, and get behind everyone that bought 2 of them, and have to wait until June... July... August... for the thing to arrive. Plus, the fear that it'll arrive one week before the
Watch 2 is announced.Maybe I'm not the customer Apple is looking for in a watch, but I still want one. The shopping experience for it stinks for me, though.
If there is no new Macbook available in store on launch day, something wasn't done properly.
Yeah and if you think about it a month ago no one was here for the Apple Watch. Now every one swears they have to have an Apple Watch by friday or else heads need to roll. Let's get real. It was probably Angela's idea to have people try out the watch and that resulted in it being a HUGE selling product that now people have to wait for months to get their hands on. I honestly think having people get a taste of the watch in store was a stroke of genius.
No company in their right mind could've predicted the success of the Apple Watch based on the previous sales of Android Watches that have flopped one after another for the last several years. Let's get some perspective.
I'm splitting hairs here, but IMO, I think they had some supply, just enough to get the initial batch out there 250K-500K, and the rest were done on demand.
It seems like a smart way to do this.