I really don't think Mr. Jobs cares. Either way, he's still probably soaking in a bath of $100 bills right now.
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Apple Claims Largest Ever First-Day iPhone Pre-Orders of 600,000
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I really don't think Mr. Jobs cares. Either way, he's still probably soaking in a bath of $100 bills right now.
Just Wait Until June 24th
You think crashing servers was bad, wait until the afternoon of the 24th. AT&T's network will be brought to it's knees with the faster web surfing and everyone is going to be video calling everyone else and the internet will crash.
I can't wait, it's like the Myan's were predicting it!
LanPhantom
You think crashing servers was bad, wait until the afternoon of the 24th. AT&T's network will be brought to it's knees with the faster web surfing and everyone is going to be video calling everyone else and the internet will crash.
I can't wait, it's like the Myan's were predicting it!
LanPhantom
Here's another question: I was finally able to make a reservation for launch day at my local Apple store last night through the Apple store app. I got the confirmation email. But the Apple site isn't showing it. And curiously enough, the Apple site isn't taking reservations anymore either. Are these reservations still valid, even though I can't look it up anymore? This seems odd.
Um, reality check:
1. face-time is WiFi only. No impact on AT&T's 3G network.
2. The web surfing is not any faster than the current crop of iPhones. The only difference is that the phone is capable of HSUPA, meaning that the UPload speed of the phone is potentially faster, not the download.
3. A fairly substantial percentage of people getting the iPhone 4 will be retiring some other AT&T phone.
There will surely be a bump as people (like me) play with their shiny new toys, but I don't think it's going to be the apocalypse you're predicting.
U sound like a sore loser - why would one want to waste their day waiting in line? I'd rather be at home away from the zit faced kids and get it delivered.
I unfortunately Got a store reservation - I don't know about waiting all day
Yup I had a similar situation, tried to order from AT&T but thought it failed so later in the day ordered it from Apple except I was charged for both iPhone 4'sone charge from AT&T and one from Apple both for the same line and at the subsidized price, hmmm guess I am going to have an extra 32gb iPhone 4 to sell
I would guess that with all the problems, once AT$T & Apple have reconciled their respective orders, they will run a script across all orders (both companies) to see what phone numbers have more than one order against them. They stand to loose too much $$$ just to let these extra orders go at the reduced price. Once they do this, they will cancel "extra" orders as appropriate. There have been reports today that some people are getting emails form AT$T stating they have more then one phone ordered per line and therefore one was canceled. They have several days to figure this out before things start to ship. The good news is that once this happens, maybe some of the pre-orders that are scheduled to ship after the 24th, will be moved up.
PS - this is just my opinion based on my business / IT experience. I have no inside knowledge of this.
The press release said "Yesterday Apple and its carrier partners" ... Given that AT$T is the only "carrier partner" in the US, I'm assuming that the "S" on partners means the number includes all carriers for all countries.
The factory has been working full out for some time now. Based on factory output capacity Apple knows how many they will have available for the launch, so they made sure they took pre-orders for what they can ship for the 24th. Once these were gone, the date moved to 7/2. It looks like it has now moved out again to 7/14. I would like to know how many they allocated for in store reservations and walk ins vs. pre-orders. I'm guessing Apple will release a statement after the 1st weekend with total sales worldwide. I'm thinking it could be as high as 1.5m.
... That's it?
So 600,000 was enough to crush a network serving as a wireless base for 85 million + customers? Give me an unlocked iPhone so I can take my business elsewhere, what a ***** joke...
Lol! I hope you're being silly!
^^
Not entirely clear on what you're saying. But I don't think AT&T expected as many requests as it received within a 24 hour period. Last year's pre-sale started June 8 and lasted nearly a week.
So if they sold out of their initial - delivered by launch day - stock, they moved at least 100,000 phones inside 24 hours.
The Apple site, at least triple that number.
The only thing I can compare this kind of immediate crush to, is concert tickets. Try getting concert tickets to a U2 show at a 100,000 seat stadium *the moment* they go onsale. It's not pretty and online portals tend to have a melt down.
Not entirely clear on what you're saying. But I don't think AT&T expected as many requests as it received within a 24 hour period. Last year's pre-sale started June 8 and lasted nearly a week.
So if they sold out of their initial - delivered by launch day - stock, they moved at least 100,000 phones inside 24 hours.
The Apple site, at least triple that number.
The only thing I can compare this kind of immediate crush to, is concert tickets. Try getting concert tickets to a U2 show at a 100,000 seat stadium *the moment* they go onsale. It's not pretty and online portals tend to have a melt down.
Sorry, got torn away before I could add the question:
How long did it take to sell out of 3GS preorders last year?
Sprint did not reveal numbers. One analyst's guesstimate is maybe 150,000 over the first weekend for Sprint.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20007187-94.html?tag=mncol;txt
Still, relatively impressive as those are numbers from only one market.
I figured it was my browser that was telling the site that I was mobile. If it's from a laptop and a 3G card, would it know that if the browser was showing firefox on windows (no Macs allowed at work). How to they track that it's mobile? If they can, how do they know when I'm hooked to ethernet .... everything else is the same? Anybody pay for the ABI report?
I remember that pre-order started on the 8th, and by June 13th, AT&T announced they could no longer accept pre-orders for June 19th iDay delivery.
There were media reports on June 13th that they'd sold out, but I think it really meant they were sold out of *launch day* pre-order stock.
This year they've stopped selling pre-order phones, and Apple's delivery dates have slipped twice.
We may see 1 million pre-orders before the end of this week.
Probably about as many as there would've been iPhone 4 pre-orders, if AT&T hadn't given a million customers advanced upgrade status
Can't wait to see them explain that to their stockholders this time, after having their stock get hit a year or so ago for the half or more billion dollars tied up in 3G and 3GS subsidies. Guess getting people locked in for two years is worth it to them.
Apple is telling people who try and order now that they can no longer reserve or pre order an iphone 4. They are telling people that they will be able to walk in on the 24th and pick up an iphone on a first come first served basis. This is likely false hope for many people as I can't imagine that the in store supplies, that are not already reserved, will last very long.
The launch day at Apple stores is going to be nothing short of chaos.
The launch day at Apple stores is going to be nothing short of chaos.
Probably not as many as the number of customers sprint lost last quarter wa wa waaaaa. So let me do that math there is like 10 people on sprint divided by the 10 cities with 4g = 2 dudes got an evo 4g and the other 8 canceled.
Hope activation doesn't blow like the 3g launch or they just let us take it home again.