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Apple.com: iPhone 6s / 6s Plus Order Tracking

Brizz1e18 said:
I ordered iPhone 6s 64gb space grey att 12:45pm 09/12/15 on Apple.com, yesterday i got the charge for the cc, just 10 min ago I got a email showing my phone shipped and it shows the phone on support profile! It's coming!
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What country are you in?

And do you have a screenshot?
 
DustinDev47 said:
No, I do not think it's implausible at all. What I'm saying and what you seem to fail to understand is that, while I accept things can go wrong sometimes, I refuse to believe that things will go wrong every time.

And I still don't see why you won't relent with regard to Foxconn. I'm talking about my own personal belief that the "supply issues" are an illusion and a marketing tactic.
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So you think companies that supply components to Apple and rely on stocks to survive, will let it leak that they have issues with what they are supplying and Apple is moving to another manufacturer of the same component, thereby losing money on stock, future orders, and Apple is going to reimburse them on the backend millions upon millions of dollars to make up for their losses to create an 'illusion'??
 
I'm guessing we will start seeing more orders moving to "preparing for shipment" in the next few hours as that is about the time we saw charges hitting yesterday.

Here's hoping at least.
 
DustinDev47 said:
No, I do not think it's implausible at all. What I'm saying and what you seem to fail to understand is that, while I accept things can go wrong sometimes, I refuse to believe that things will go wrong every time.
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Given how many they have to make, how many parts go into it, and how short the lead time is, I'm shocked more doesn't go wrong.
 
Steve686 said:
He is saying unlike the 5/5s that had production issues consisting of chipped and scratched edges when people received them brand new, Foxconn is steaming along as fast as it can without problems.

I think. :/
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I read somewhere (I know, vague) that FoxConn has to eat something like 5 million phones a year that don't meet QA standards.

Yes manufacturing issues arise, we just don't believe they arise at this stage of the game. They have been making parts for at least a month before the event. And when they do run into yield issues, they parachute in a battalion of engineers to figure it out and get things back on track because you can't make money off a phone you can't manufacture. As well, it wouldn't surprise me to find out that suppliers face penalties if yield falters and slows down the whole process. So when they commit to Apple, they know they must keep the commitment and if an issue arises it's dealt with very quickly.
 
Wavnut said:
For those of you who upgrade your phone every year. Why? Not being mean or anything, just wondering...
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Because I can just hand down my old phone to another family member. Nobody else in the family cares as much about having the latest gadget. So I do 1 iPhone upgrade per year for a family with 3 iPhones. The other person has a Samsung Galaxy, and I upgrade that one every 2-3 years as needed.
 
Nanotyrns said:
Yes manufacturing issues arise, we just don't believe they arise at this stage of the game. They have been making parts for at least a month before the event. And when they do run into yield issues, they parachute in a battalion of engineers to figure it out and get things back on track because you can't make money off a phone you can't manufacture. As well, it wouldn't surprise me to find out that suppliers face penalties if yield falters and slows down the whole process. So when they commit to Apple, they know they must keep the commitment and if an issue arises it's dealt with very quickly.
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Yes, and this is why that whole thing with GT Advanced Technologies never happened. And it sounds like the parachuting in of a battalion of engineers is exactly what happened, and the result was, "Not fixable in time. Transfer orders to the backup supplier." Really, a month is not a lot of lead time.
 
KdParker said:
You can still check on apple.com to see if there was an issue, Some have needed to readd credit card information when using apple pay.
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I just called Apple again and there's nothing wrong with my order. I also went on apple.com. Nothing wrong there either. It could be that the people who needed to re-add their credit card info, had to do so because they restored instead of an update.
 
On the flip side, my religious holiday is on Thursday and Friday next week, so I've got that going for me which is nice
 
CodeSpyder said:
I just called Apple again and there's nothing wrong with my order. I also went on apple.com. Nothing wrong there either. It could be that the people who needed to re-add their credit card info, had to do so because they restored instead of an update.
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Ahh. That might be the difference.
 
CodeSpyder said:
I just called Apple again and there's nothing wrong with my order. I also went on apple.com. Nothing wrong there either. It could be that the people who needed to re-add their credit card info, had to do so because they restored instead of an update.
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I did a restore to revert from 9.1.

A lengthy call with Apple yielded no expected issues on receiving a different device number in Apple Pay.

I'm going to assume Apple had done some research on this scenario.
 
Just checked mine still says Processing and no charge yet. Looked at apple support and no phone on there also didn't see my iPhone 6plus on apple support.
 
Just checked my Amex and i got charged :). Never thought i would be so happy to see a charge on my credit card! So, now that that's happened--when can i tell UPS to hold it for me at their store? If it is UPS. I know i can't do it now, but i do have a my choice account with them. All your help has been greatly appreciated this week!
 
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DustinDev47 said:
No, I do not think it's implausible at all. What I'm saying and what you seem to fail to understand is that, while I accept things can go wrong sometimes, I refuse to believe that things will go wrong every time.

And I still don't see why you won't relent with regard to Foxconn. I'm talking about my own personal belief that the "supply issues" are an illusion and a marketing tactic.
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So lets assume things are going perfectly in the manufacturing side. There's still going to be supply issues. How many of new key part X do you have, which limits the total units you can have assembled? How many units can you assemble in X lead time? How many should you assemble with that lead time?

You don't want to over-order parts, key parts will always have lower yields if they are new (such as the 3D Touch display components), and you are going to set your initial final product order based on projections. So while I can maybe buy as much as I need for 90+% of what goes into the 6s, there's always something slightly different and new that requires ramp up time to get right and improve yields. If it isn't a new component, it is a new manufacturing technique, etc. And Cook as COO always ran a fairly tight pipeline. So if their initial demand estimates are off, I would be utterly shocked if they were overestimated.
 
CodeSpyder said:
I just called Apple again and there's nothing wrong with my order. I also went on apple.com. Nothing wrong there either. It could be that the people who needed to re-add their credit card info, had to do so because they restored instead of an update.
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Reading about this make me glad I didn't use Apple Pay on the app but instead ordered at the website. I did a restore on my iPhone for iOS 9 which I don't normally do and it might have created a problem.

Funny though -- Apple Pay removed my CapOne card but not my debit card on my phone and took both off the watch when it restored.
 
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