If you were that impatient, you should have woken up and ordered one right at the correct time. There were no system wide crashes or anything else stopping you this year.
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I'm not sure what you are trying to say, but most of our orders where placed at the exact time orders opened, and we are still waiting.
According to your post history, you ordered on Saturday at 3am. That's a full 24 hours after preorders opened. With iPhones even 30 minutes is enough to cause delays, let alone 24 hours.
EDIT: This was meant for the OP not dmystic.
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I live in Pacific Standard Time 12am so I don't know where you get 3
Good grief...... Here is the top of the confirmation email and you can clearly see the time. I have actually 3 orders two from att and one from apple that one is recently placed, so I don't expect to see that one anytime soon.
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EDIT: Oops: My original post was targeted at the OP, I thought you were the OP. According to his post history he ordered a day later.
On a side note though, never order from AT&T. I made that mistake with my 4S. Never again.
I don't understand the hate on the OP. It's simple. Apple is a company. They have a product. They develop and advertise the product and then launch it. There's a demand for said product and Apple failed to meet the demand.
Apple wasn't prepared to launch the iPhone 5s and it's annoying to have a launch day and then wait another month for that product I'm willing to spend so much money on. And I apologize for having a job and being unable to wait in a line at 2 in the morning. Which is ridiculous if that's the lengths I would have to go to just to get a product from Apple.
The complaints against Apple are justified. It's simple economics.
Apple wasn't prepared to launch the iPhone 5s and it's annoying to have a launch day and then wait another month for that product I'm willing to spend so much money on. And I apologize for having a job and being unable to wait in a line at 2 in the morning. Which is ridiculous if that's the lengths I would have to go to just to get a product from Apple.
The complaints against Apple are justified. It's simple economics.
Let me sum this up for you OP:
You dont feel entitled of getting your phone sooner than others but still are complaining about other countries beeing launched? Which countries exactly are those? I only know about switzerland, which will start in 2014.
Then you wouldnt mind if the phones would launch, lets say in November, when enough phones for everyone are produced. So you wont grant the phone to others unless you could have it yourself.
By the way Im also waiting. But your whining is ridiculous.
You dont feel entitled of getting your phone sooner than others but still are complaining about other countries beeing launched? Which countries exactly are those? I only know about switzerland, which will start in 2014.
Then you wouldnt mind if the phones would launch, lets say in November, when enough phones for everyone are produced. So you wont grant the phone to others unless you could have it yourself.
By the way Im also waiting. But your whining is ridiculous.
Wow what great advice, get an S4. That's what everybody wants, an oversized plastic phone with a clunky interface and no Touch ID.
Yes, I was just thinking that. Plus as a bonus it works with a really ugly wristwatch.
Just get a black shell case to hide the pink color and pretend it is a 5s.
Grouping all Americans into the same group is also an incorrect as well as repulsive behavior trait of some people.
Well order your 5S and replace your nonfunctional iphone with a 5. Then return it when your new life sustaining 5S arrives.
I'm not pissed at the people who were able to obtain the phone, again congrats. To use the analogy that the CDC should have people get ill or even possibly have a fatal illness instead of releasing a vaccine is going over the deep end, don't you think ? Come on friend, it's a phone not a disease. A simple statement that a company should make enough of a product to satisfy the masses is rational in my view. Maybe if I would have settled for a 16gb Space Grey when ordering, I would have a device right now. I have a feeling that the majority of early recipients of the phone settled for that.
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Very nice, puts everything into perspective. Well said.
Lets see, woke up at 2:55 am, logged on the my Apple app and started to order immediately. Hit the "complete order" button at 3:08 EST (8 minutes after launch) for a 32 gb gold, and received my confirmation email at 3:15am. When would it ship? OCTOBER !!! I can definitely wait and probably will, but 8 minutes ?
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My point exactly, thank you.
I'm tired waiting but at least I still have my iPhone 5 to use . So I can wait a little while longer .
I'm pretty sure that Apple wanted to include sales of the 5s with their fourth quarter earnings, which ends today. Had they waited until November to release, they wouldn't be able to do that.
I want a 5s as much as the next guy, and it's frustrating that I can't even have one held for me at the one Apple Store where I live. But I know that I'll get one sooner or later, just like I did when I ordered an iMac last year and supplies were constrained.
Was it that hard to wake up at 3am? Heck if you woke up at 7am you had 7-10 days and would be getting it in a few days.
This has nothing to do with supply chain. Companies are not going to produce 50 million units and then announce the product just so you can find it in a store with ease. Tim Cook was born on a Friday but not last Friday. He knows what he's doing.
This has nothing to do with supply chain. Companies are not going to produce 50 million units and then announce the product just so you can find it in a store with ease. Tim Cook was born on a Friday but not last Friday. He knows what he's doing.
I disagree. There will be customers fed up with waiting that will stick with their current iphone, potential switchers that stay with Android and some people that will wait it out but are left with a bad taste that affects their purchasing down the road. If you have customers that want to buy something it's certainly a mistake to not be ready to take their money and keep them happy.
There's a reason there's no lines for that phablet
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9 million phones! We're sold at launch, don't know if this means ordered or what, probably does. But anyway, a company can't make millions and millions of phones before launch, what if it was a flop? Or there was a hardware glitch etc.
Maybe apple is surprised by all the isheep in the world and honestly thought there would not b such a demand.
Sorry they don't have the ability to produce your phone via magic. But as long as MILLIONS of people want one, it will be hard to get. That's life. It took me 3 months to get my MacBook Pro Retina. Sucks, but it's not personal. And you can't say it reflects poorly on their customer service.
Hi,
i live in Belgium where there is "no" date (maybe December) for when the s or the c is available.
But in the evening of the 20th september i got my 5s.
Got a good friend who has done the line at the Apple Store in Oberhausen (D).
So, if you really wanted it, you should have gotten it already.
i live in Belgium where there is "no" date (maybe December) for when the s or the c is available.
But in the evening of the 20th september i got my 5s.
Got a good friend who has done the line at the Apple Store in Oberhausen (D).
So, if you really wanted it, you should have gotten it already.
i woke up and drove straight to the apple store instead of fighting the online rush at 3am
I'm not a huge fanboy that has to have the latest greatest. My current phone is simply on it's last legs.
I am quite simply fed up with the poor supply chain management, and the rough treatment of customers. I certainly don't think Apple "owes me" anything for being a prior customer, anymore than Subaru or Sony does. Though all companies need to put at least the minimum effort into maintaining brand loyalty, even Apple.
However the incredibly vague ship date of "October" is kind of vexing. That is a window of a couple days, to a month and then some.
I would not have such a hard time with it if Apple wasn't bragging about selling so many phones, and then moving on to debut the phones in more markets and more carriers.
If this was a restaurant I would still be waiting for breakfast while dinner is being cooked.
I've never waited for a phone. I have a prosumer account, and fully expected mine to be delivered before I'd even sold my 5....Well, that was 8 day's ago and still nothing except "Processing" I've emailed them asking if a color change would help...It's become an inconvenience now, but Apple clearly got the numbers wrong.....I wish I'd stuck to black now..