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Apple Claims Largest Ever First-Day iPhone Pre-Orders of 600,000

Typical Apple instead of giving customers an explanation about the white iPhone they boast their high sales. Maybe if they stop patting themselves on the back long enough they might give an explanation.
 
Apologies don't cut it

Just because this was the biggest iPhone release so far, one could still have extrapolated from how well they have gone so far and done a much better job anticipating the demand.

Apple has blamed AT&T every time ****'s gone sour. Fine. Here's a "think different" idea - how about next time, Apple, you cache AT&T's subscriber data - at least the data about iPhone owners.

Actually, they don't even have to pre-fill the cache. Just save the answer you get back the first time so that when (not if) the process crashes further in you don't have to go all the way back to AT&T after having forced the customer to start over.

I mean, duh!
 
nsayer said:
Just because this was the biggest iPhone release so far, one could still have extrapolated from how well they have gone so far and done a much better job anticipating the demand.

Apple has blamed AT&T every time ****'s gone sour. Fine. Here's a "think different" idea - how about next time, Apple, you cache AT&T's subscriber data - at least the data about iPhone owners.

Actually, they don't even have to pre-fill the cache. Just save the answer you get back the first time so that when (not if) the process crashes further in you don't have to go all the way back to AT&T after having forced the customer to start over.

I mean, duh!
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Considering AT&T ran 13 million eligibility requests yesterday I can't blame Apple.

And that was only one carrier.
 
deenybird said:
I think they should do away with this whole pre-order nonsense. If you want a phone come launch day then you should show up at the store.
Do you want it so little that actually driving to a store to buy something seems like too much work? And to think that some people on launch day will be turned away because someone wasnt willing to take off work and had ordered online is ludicrous.
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In the real world people have thing called "jobs." Sometimes even "families."

In a capitalist society, we indicate our desire to have something by exchanging money for it, not by holding a vigil to demonstrate our moral worth to possess it. It is much more efficient that way.

Aside from which, why should people who are too lazy to preorder receive priority over those who did?
 
600,000 worldwide, or US only?

If this number is only US sales, what will the world total be?
 
Wow! I was among those yesterday who spent the whole day trying to get an order through and then finally got one to go. I was pretty adamant in a couple of posts yesterday that they should have been prepared, but who could have anticipated that the pre-orders would have been 10 x that of the 3GS? That's just phenomenal. No wonder their poor servers were taking a dump! I'm just glad I managed to get an order in under the June 24 shipping cutoff.

nsayer said:
Just because this was the biggest iPhone release so far, one could still have extrapolated from how well they have gone so far and done a much better job anticipating the demand.

Apple has blamed AT&T every time ****'s gone sour. Fine. Here's a "think different" idea - how about next time, Apple, you cache AT&T's subscriber data - at least the data about iPhone owners.

Actually, they don't even have to pre-fill the cache. Just save the answer you get back the first time so that when (not if) the process crashes further in you don't have to go all the way back to AT&T after having forced the customer to start over.

I mean, duh!
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Uh, no... Nobody in their wildest dreams could have anticipated this, sorry. If someone would have said that this would be 2 or 3 times as big as the 3GS launch, everybody would have been saying "well, maybe", but 10 times as big? Come on. Everyone on the planet would have said that you were off your rocker.
 
Wow. I am not getting an iPhone 4 for me, but I "reserved" one for my wife. I tried repeatedly to pre-order, but could never get by the screen that checks AT&T elgibility.

(She's elgible -- she's using an "ancient" four year old dumb phone with an almost dead battery.)
 
I pre-ordered online at Apple.com

around 2pm PDT - no problems. Confirmation email came about 2 hours later: June 24.
 
iSee said:
Wow. I am not getting an iPhone 4 for me, but I "reserved" one for my wife. I tried repeatedly to pre-order, but could never get by the screen that checks AT&T elgibility.

(She's elgible -- she's using an "ancient" four year old dumb phone with an almost dead battery.)
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4 years on one battery? She can plug it in you know. :eek:
 
bigjnyc said:
Typical Apple instead of giving customers an explanation about the white iPhone they boast their high sales. Maybe if they stop patting themselves on the back long enough they might give an explanation.
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Why do you feel like Apple owes you any explanation for the lack of a white iPhone?
 
Unlike the clusterf*&k from two years ago when they launched the iPhone 3G, iOS2, MobileMe and the App Store all on the same day, Apple is launching iOS4 on June 21. Hopefully that relieves some of the traffic next Thursday, but not likely.
 
sndcj1 said:
After reading the boards on the new data plans and how they would hinder everyone, the fact it is STILL tied only to ATT, on the new phone specs (EVO did it first!!!), on the things the new iPhone "just can't do", I figured I'd be able to walk into an ATT store on launch day, buy a handful of these turds.
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Please don't buy "one of these turds". Run down and get an HTC Bazoodle with all the cool Droid open source stuff. Everyone will be much happier.
 
The Phazer said:
No, sorry, but this is simply incorrect. The server load is far from unusual in e-commerce and grown up business solutions, and there are more than adquate solutions on the marketplace to connect them together with sufficient throughput.

Phazer
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Apple and ATT leased server space from Amazon, wasn't enough.
 
bigjnyc said:
Typical Apple instead of giving customers an explanation about the white iPhone they boast their high sales. Maybe if they stop patting themselves on the back long enough they might give an explanation.
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It was well-publicized in MacRumors, and all over the place, that the white phones would not be available right away. You take your disappointment and make a federal case out of it.
 
alhedges said:
In the real world people have thing called "jobs." Sometimes even "families."

In a capitalist society, we indicate our desire to have something by exchanging money for it, not by holding a vigil to demonstrate our moral worth to possess it. It is much more efficient that way.

Aside from which, why should people who are too lazy to preorder receive priority over those who did?
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^This +100000
 
Disasterous product leak

Perhaps Gizmodo should be enlisted to (pre-)announce future versions. ;)
 
i had to go to a 3rd party outlet to reserve mine, and now i'm definitely camping out. activations are going to be hell though, can you imagine the pandemonium when everyone gets their iphone boxes and plugs em into itunes? :(
 
I love how Apple and AT&T launched a DDoS attack on their own servers. Who needs hackers or an army of bots when you have hordes of crazy iPhone consumers? :)

And they will do it again next Thursday.

GL
 
Swift said:
It was well-publicized in MacRumors, and all over the place, that the white phones would not be available right away. You take your disappointment and make a federal case out of it.
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+1. Quit whining about how apple didn't tell you about the iPhones. Apple never tells anyone anything, that's why this site exists. If you don't like it, go buy a droid ;)
 
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