Placed my order for the Graphite 12 Pro Max 256GB this morning and got a 11/13 ship date. Super excited to get my first iPhone 🙂 Next Friday can't come fast enough. My current phone is 5 years old and has been on its way out all year - screen flickering, camera crashing, not getting texts until a reboot - but I was determined to hold out until the new iPhones came out. Looks like I just made it.
Was really worried that I wasn't going to get a launch day delivery. It took 7 minutes for the app to open up on my wife's iPhone and then spent 8 minutes trying to place the order but it kept erroring out charging the credit card. By then the website was up for me and I just placed the order there with no problems 20 minutes after pre-orders started. The website seemed much better than 2 weeks ago during pre-orders - it took me 30 minutes just to get in then and even then everything kept timing out navigating between pages.