As a former Apple Employee I can tell you this is TRUE Had my iPhone 4,4s & 5 before we started selling to public
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Apple CEO Tim Cook: iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Demand 'Far Outstripping' Supply
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As a former Apple Employee I can tell you this is TRUE Had my iPhone 4,4s & 5 before we started selling to public
It says that until you actually order it!
I placed an order on the 17th after the store came back online, and it said 2 days. I also ordered a case that said 2-4 days and a remote for my ATV which I have lost that said 2-4 days.
Both the case and remote shipped today (21st) and now the iPad air 2 says 5-7 days after already exceeding their initial estimate by 200%.
Funny how once they take your money, the delivery time goes from 2 days, now to a week plus the initial 2 days.
If supply is so tight, then why have there been multiple stores with them in stock? Tim take care of your pre order customers FIRST, absolutley obsurd that others and myself are waiting for preorders from 9/19 and prior but there has been stock in my locale apple store.
have this same problem with my wife's phone till i signed up for office 365 and get the onedrive app. after it uploaded all the photos/videos to onedrive i deleted from the phone and we can access old photos/videos thru the app
What do you use phone camera for, print graphic poster with 3 ft x 5ft size? The best you can do with a phone camera is posting those pictures on social network and maybe some screen savers on monitors which 99% are not retina display.
Stop the MP ******** on the phone. Really, it's useless beyond 5MP.
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Dude, even Apple has to manage cash flow with profits from one build to go into another. The first build they did for any major release is more expensive than the regular production runs. Also, a scarcity like this is good for creating demand, free press and stock price.
After owning the original iPhone through the 4S model, I switched to the Note series. Aside from subpar support from Samsung with warranty issues, the phone was amazing. I'm definitely eager to see what the 6+ offers, if it ever ships that is!
I ordered 6+ Gold 64GB on Sept 12 16hrs after it's preorder time with delivery date from Oct 13-20, but it's shipped on Sept 26. I got it on Oct 2nd. What's wrong with others?
I just ordered a second one , 6+, Grey, 64GB on Oct 3 and delivery day is Nov 3-10, but expect it to be shipped some time this week and receive by the end of this month.
Advice: don't order through carrier, but Apple.
I am just down the highway from Apple and it also arrived on launch day. Ended up ordering via the carrier store since the Apple Store was jammed.
Immediately came back with delivery on launch day. Two days later, changed to a month. Then two days before launch day, it reset the delivery date. Showed up at the front office with not a minute waiting in line.
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Did you say something so... Idiotic? Really?
BTW, my Canon G16 bought last year is just 12MP and that's a full fledge camera with a sensor 10 times bigger and optics... Well, much much better than the one on the Iphone and all other Smart Phone cameras. It must sure suck worse than that 40MP Nokia 1020 then...
I'll let you guess which one sucks more in this case, the 1020, some random 20MP Samsung or Sony smart phone or the poor 12MP camera...
Maybe you need to open up a camera and physics book so you can actually make sense next time.
Apple is fully aware of demand.
They purposely build only so many.
They will slowly lull everyone into ordering online with a 2-3 week wait, and work on shortening that wait in the name of marketing and profit...
This saves Apple a fortune in over-building on a yearly model change platform.
In the future, the stores will be only to look at the products, and ALL orders will be made-to-order. Once they can get the production down to Amazon-style ship ASAP, this will be it. Stores will be the place for accessories, not hardware.
Oh, and.. I am sure you can over-pay and get it in 24 hours, or little less for 3 day, or regular price at 2-3 week...
Yep.
They purposely build only so many.
They will slowly lull everyone into ordering online with a 2-3 week wait, and work on shortening that wait in the name of marketing and profit...
This saves Apple a fortune in over-building on a yearly model change platform.
In the future, the stores will be only to look at the products, and ALL orders will be made-to-order. Once they can get the production down to Amazon-style ship ASAP, this will be it. Stores will be the place for accessories, not hardware.
Oh, and.. I am sure you can over-pay and get it in 24 hours, or little less for 3 day, or regular price at 2-3 week...
Yep.
Enough of this ****...5S with iPhon6 specs. May 1 out of 10 million people is still interested in that.
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Let's put it this way, demand for quad-core Minis is 'Far Outstripping' the supply.HEY TIM COOK YOU LEFT OUT THE CORES IN THE NEW 2014 MAC MINI !!
ARE YOU SHORT ON QUAD CORES TOO ??
well..I was being sarcastic...but the point i was making was regarding to demand and supplies.
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Anyone who thinks Apple likes people to wait 4 weeks for their phone is just silly. Its the engineering, manufacturing rampup that takes up most of the time. Also, producing 50M phones, tying up 15B in inventory (not producing your other phones in the process!!) seems a bit idiotic. The fact that they're able to manufacture and ship 80-100M phones in 4 months is just incredible as is.
and how much would that usually cost?
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i was being sarcastic.
You should know that no one will click on any link in this forum. Who give the sht about you tube video.
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I didn't see /S
Because - speaking as a Canadian who once had to wait - it's annoying as hell when we have to wait while other countries get it first.
