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Apple Announces Over Two Million iPhone 5 Pre-Orders in First Day of Sales
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Damn!! You guys just always do it right,
you show us the phone
we complain
you start preorders on a friday
we customers set a new world record
o yeah we still complaining
you show us the phone
we complain
you start preorders on a friday
we customers set a new world record
o yeah we still complaining
In all listed capacities, I fail to see the innovation.
Look, its a good product, but call it what it is. The iPhone 4G. Faster everything. Stop saying its more innovative than anything else. Its not. There's faster phones on the market, and that was demonstrated on Geekbench (Jellybean SIII smokes the rumored A6 in the test). Its a nice phone, it'll sell like hot cakes. The complaint is Apple's gone conservative, stale, boring, etc.
I got an iPhone 5. Its better than my old iPhone. But I don't see the projected differences sans LTE. And SIII has 2x Ram iPhone 5 anyway.
In the official press release it states that the majority of pre-orders will be delivered on Sept 21st. What is a majority? Is that half the pre-orders? I ordered mine at 12:56 AM PST, that is less than an hour after pre-orders started, my order status states an October 5th delivery.
The worst part is that when I placed my pre-order, the website was indicating that it would deliver on Sept 21st. When I received my confirmation email the email said a delivery date of October 5th. I thought that can't be right, so I immediately went back to the Apple's website to see what it was saying the delivery date was and it still was indicating "Delivers Sept 21st".
I sure hope my order somehow gets bumped up! Heck I leave for China on the 23rd and really want my new iPhone 5 to play with on the plane. If I don't get it, do you think Apple will let me pick it up from the factory?
I think it's best you don't get that phone for your trip cause I can guarantee you some Chinese gang will hold you up for that thing knowing they can sell it for probably $2,000 american
Ok so I see all these moments on the Verge and the like saying "welcome to last year". But if LTE and big screens were that important wouldn't some of these iPhone 3GS/4 owners already have moved on to another phone like the S3? I'm sure some have but with these initial sales figures it sure seems like a lot of iPhone users held out for the iPhone 5.
i know this is sarcasm.
But I do not think you know what innovative means
making something faster, doesn't necessarily mean innovative
(please don't take this as me taking anything away from the iphone5, it's a good phone, in line with the top end phones from everyone else. But Innovative? is it bringing something truly new to the table? Some feature? item? design queue or element unseen or unrecognized?. No,it is not)
Great phone. Great product. But the term Innovative is getting smacked around like a wet towel in a locker room.
Well yes it is.
1. Integrated Touchscreen Display Technology.
2. Best smartphone screen to date (Color accuracy)
3. Thinnest overall design with best performance to date and stronger!
4. Full custom designed processor which I believe will prove to be the fastest smartphone by far.
5. The best charging/data connector to date (Samsung will copy soon)
I think the problem is we expect Apple to make some science fiction phone and do not understand that is not reality. The iPhone 4 still holds it own among top smartphones. If you think it is possible to make a smartphone a clear display or a paper thin phone right now you should stick to movies.
I'm a little surprised. My impression was that this round had fewer countries added. If it's launching in more countries concurrently or more came on board pre-launch, I guess that would make sense. Some of the prior phone releases included a lot of new carriers or countries, which obviously had some impact on growth. I'm not sure what's driving it this time unless they're just accepting pre-orders from a larger portion of the globe.
These hypothetical comparisons of people become very old. You'd have to be a very boring person to identify yourself by the phone you carry.
Exactly! I think a lot of people just don't realize how limited that initial stock of new iPhones is. Out of 2 million units sold, maybe 25% of those sells will get delivered on Friday - launch day. The other 75 % will get delivered anytime after that, including possibly two weeks after launch day. Apple has also, more recently in the last couple of years, limited the initial pre order stock, so that they could have a lot more units in their stores on launch day. It used to be the other way around for Apple. They used to basically just blow their stock during the pre-order and not worry about how much stock they had on hand at the stores, after all a sell is a sell and people are still getting it launch day, but rather through the mail.
Then Apple saw that fewer people were queuing up at their stores, and the launch didn't appear, at least to observers and the media, that the product launch was as massive, because so many people were sitting at home waiting on the delivery truck. That doesn't make for great visuals. What makes for great visuals is huge lines queuing up outside of your stores.
What Apple realizes is and what they have learned is that when you run out of iPhones on launch day at your stores, people get a lot more angry, than they do if you push their delivery date back by a week or two. Sure some people will not be happy about getting their iPhone delivered a week later because they ordered an hour too late, but most are not going to cancel their order, so Apple still makes money. But when you run out of iPhones at your local store and people are waiting in long lines, they will get angry and they will go home mad, and many will not come back.
Apple is just not going to blow their initial wad on pre-orders any more like they used to. They will stagger their stock in 3 or more different segments.
SIII is a quad-core and has 2GB of RAM. iPhone 5 is dual-core with 1GB of RAM, yet they are not far off in performance. Android phones need more horsepower because everything on it is less efficient.
But, but, but, but it has 2X RAM!
Excited
With so much criticism I feel like I can't be excited to get the iPhone5. So... I came onto an awesome community to encourage the rest of you awesome bastards.
iPhone 5...................
Seriously, I'm really excited.
With so much criticism I feel like I can't be excited to get the iPhone5. So... I came onto an awesome community to encourage the rest of you awesome bastards.
iPhone 5...................
Seriously, I'm really excited.
Nope, evidence of innovation is the new processor. Apple did something original there.
Just a few innovations that we know of;
- A chip that is designed specifically for running iOS. Runs faster than 4core, double the ram, higher speed chips.
- Most possibly higher LTE speeds vs other phones in the market (yet to be tested).
- In-cell touch panel, that will reduce energy use.
- Integrated body style that uses the back plate as the skeleton.
- A new way to take panaroma pictures rather than stitching up several pictures.
I do not understand how these are not innovation.
I don't find that video to be a parody or funny at all. I have a great sense of humor. Great, I tell you!
I paid full retail price.
I put it on my credit card.
At least I can pay it off in chunks.
This is the problem of America today. Pay it off in chunks?! So what's your effective purchase price including APR?!
I would never take a loan out ever to purchase any item. In fact, waited till I had $$$$$ in the bank to buy a brand new car with a cashiers check.
Whats with people who can't afford apple being so obsessed over it.
But hey whatever pleases you I guess. So this is how hipsters are able to afford their products.
the chip design itself could prove to be an Apple innovation. While the ARM Cpu concept and design isn't itself, If Apple did manage to bring development in house (still rumoured) and expand on the CPU with brand new on die features. Yes, Innovative.
the in-cell touch panel isn't apple's invention. we've seen it already. I'm looking for it now (but my googlefu is failing)
the integrated body isn't new either. However what impresses me is how Apple managed to get the antennae's working thorugh the metal casing. That could prove to be the most innovative feature.
Panoramic Apps have been available for all platforms, including iOS for years. this is not innovative. All apple has done is move it as a part of the OS applications, than a 3rd party one.
There's nothing wrong with the iphone5. People are just shocked that there's nothing really groundbreaking new. There's nothign the iphone is bringing it's customers as a tangible that everyone else hasn't really already done.
again, the iphone 5 is NOT A BAD PHONE. it' s a top tier, top of the line device. people buying it aren't going to be upset by doing so. There might be a small omission with the NFC thing, but for the majority, your iphone will do everything. People can piss and moan about the screen size, or lack of real change to the design, But thats purely subjective and not everyone will share that opinion.
SIII is a quad-core and has 2GB of RAM. iPhone 5 is dual-core with 1GB of RAM, yet they are not far off in performance. Android phones need more horsepower because everything on it is less efficient.
But, but, but, but it has 2X RAM!
I believe that the US version of the S3 is dual-core with 2GB of ram. The rest of the world is quad-core with only 1GB or ram. I can't remember what Japan and Korea's specs are.
Apple said the "majority" will be delivered on 9/21, so that would be at least more than 1 million. The others will likely slip into October.
My point.
Yes not Apple`s invention. Still an innovation, commercialized by iPhone before others.
They have used similar techniques in their Macbook line up with air and pro. Not new. New for phone.
Yes, but is there an app that creates panorama in a way Apple does? As opposed to stitching big pictures together, Apple is processing segments of the photo and creating the panorama right there as the photo is being taken. Kind of like taking a still video I guess.
What I`m seeing with iPhone 5 is similar to iPhone 4. Most innovation with iPhone 4 was related to the design. A4 chip, all glass with new antenna. And people were crying there was no innovation. These things take years to make sure they work and work well.
Sorry, you are making Apple responsable for not making the iPhone5 compatable with a non existing network? By the time O2 or anybody else got up and running,iPhone6 will be there.
If LTE is so important, why are you with a network, that is not providing it? Regardless of the handset, NO phone can get you LTE on O2.
Same.
the innovation they're bringing (i wont say there was none in the iphone5, didnt mean to imply that either), isn't what we typically think of with the tangibles.
it doesn't do anything that the other devices do. there's no brand new feature that suddenly does things the other guys can't.
for the most purposes, users will be able to do everything they do on the iphone, as they can with everyone else. There's no longer that one defining feature of the iphone that nobody else can do.
This isn't a problem! people are so fickle these days. they want to see the type of innovation that will set apple ahead of everyone else again.
it just isnt there yet (who knows what the next greatest THING will be. if we did, we'd be investing in it!)
But to call making things "faster" as innovative... is a gross misuse of the word innovate.
Thats all i was getting at in regards to my first comment
"THE IPHONE IS INNOVATIVE BECAUSE ITS 2X FASTER!"
Please.
What a bizarre world we now live in .. you think I am belittling people by stating the fact that the UK iPhone is incompatible with 4G for 50% of users .. and we should blindly over look that fact cos folks are happy with the purchase of an item they havent even received yet ... but dont worry I know I am in the minority. In here at least. Luckily not everyone is as narrowminded and will jump when Apple click their fingers .. ironically I am no Apple hater or Android thusiast .. I have a iMac .. Macbook ... iPad .. two iPhones a Nano and two shuffles .. I suppose I m just a bit old fashioned in that I buy things that are worth upgrading if I think Ill use the feature/s. And I can separate myself from peer hysteria and media hype and 'sales figures' .. I was going to buy a new Seat Ibiza when I saw the brochure come through the door .. new restyled front .. new engine .. new price ... but oddly .. I didnt upgrade .. no need .. despite their increasing sales ...
What I am saying is .. itd be blissful ignorance (certainly in the UK) to jump on the BuyAnythingThatsNewBandwagon - cough up the £400 to get a 'new' model that is thinner, flatter, longer and lighter .... and a bit quicker .. tell you what . I'll save the cash and get up earlier in the morning to allow for my iPhone 4's 'sluggish' behaviour ... and spend the money on something else .. or hey .. I could save it .. and NOT spend it on whatever Apple reckon everyone else IS buying ...
Trouble is Im in a double minority here .. UK .. and ... on O2 .. what were the chances of finding anyone else in similar setup ... hello?! Hello?
Then it means that a majority of handsets were pre-ordered in the first hour, with the other 23 hours seeing much lower pre-orders.
Doesn't seem too logical to me, but Apple has the raw data, we don't.
strange, i didnt see the comment you were replying to advocate his opinion as the rules of the forum. can you quote that bit for us? thanks.
what i did see, was a comment alluding to the neurotic behavior of so-called haters -- those who gravitate to a special-interest website, largely populated by enthusiasts supportive of said special interest, and trash it. thats a neurosis. itd be like going to a Good Parenting forum and trashing breeders and kids. or a Star Wars site and slamming it. thats crazy. and im sure people do it. but it's still crazy.