Today you also have to ask, how many will actually work completely without warranty over the next few months? This is one phone where I would not delay in getting Apple Care!
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Apple Says iPhone X Will Be Available for Walk-In Customers at Stores on Launch Day
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Today you also have to ask, how many will actually work completely without warranty over the next few months? This is one phone where I would not delay in getting Apple Care!
I agree with you that a lot of people were probably embarrassed to admit they were going to drop $1,000+ on an iPhone, but guess what? It is OUR money and we can do what we want with it! Screw people who want to judge us just because we want (and have the means) to drop $1,000+ on the first completely redesigned (first with OLED and FaceID etc...) iPhone since 2014 with the iPhone 6/6+. If people want to judge me, bring it on. As far as I know, none of you go to work for me, or pay my bills. My money is mine, yours is yours. Do not judge people because we are in a position to buy nice things, whatever they may be.
How is that elitist? All available phones should be made for order and if all of those units sell out during the preorder, then so be it. Having them available in store is fine if there are a surplus of units, which there won't be. Otherwise, this is just marketing by having the long, traditional lines that the media can cover. I'm not saying those willing to camp out aren't as loyal as the preorder crowd, they're equal. But you have to see how this is a marketing ploy...
i really mean no disrespect to you but AA becoming CEO would be the day Apple truly loses their collective minds. A fashion background exec in charge of a tech firm that's already under scrutiny of becoming too focused on aesthetics and accessories? Yikes..
If the weather on November 3 here in Orange County is going to be similar to yesterday and today at 103-106 degrees, then forget it. Won't line up. It's almost Halloween and today's heat feels like being in Las Vegas during July.
We really don't know what the inventory will be. It all varies with allotment for pre-orders and then whatever is left over is for walk-ins. It could vary from store to store. Tim Cook is vague with it. Yeah, there will be inventory for walk-in but could be less than 5 left once all pre-orders are handled. If you could be #1-#10 for walk-in, and you still might NOT get one. Pre-orders get first dibs.
Super hot weather will prevent me from going. Just two weeks ago, we had brush fires in Tustin, Orange, and Anaheim Hills. Was a complete mess. Couldn't work that day. If it's going to be 95-100 degrees that Nov 3 morning and we all need to stand outside the mall, I will just head out to the movie theater after 11am for Ragnarok to cool off. I walked my dog around 8am today and it felt very warm for a morning.
We really don't know what the inventory will be. It all varies with allotment for pre-orders and then whatever is left over is for walk-ins. It could vary from store to store. Tim Cook is vague with it. Yeah, there will be inventory for walk-in but could be less than 5 left once all pre-orders are handled. If you could be #1-#10 for walk-in, and you still might NOT get one. Pre-orders get first dibs.
Super hot weather will prevent me from going. Just two weeks ago, we had brush fires in Tustin, Orange, and Anaheim Hills. Was a complete mess. Couldn't work that day. If it's going to be 95-100 degrees that Nov 3 morning and we all need to stand outside the mall, I will just head out to the movie theater after 11am for Ragnarok to cool off. I walked my dog around 8am today and it felt very warm for a morning.
I agree with you that a lot of people were probably embarrassed to admit they were going to drop $1,000+ on an iPhone, but guess what? It is OUR money and we can do what we want with it! Screw people who want to judge us just because we want (and have the means) to drop $1,000+ on the first completely redesigned (first with OLED and FaceID etc...) iPhone since 2014 with the iPhone 6/6+. If people want to judge me, bring it on. As far as I know, none of you go to work for me, or pay my bills. My money is mine, yours is yours. Do not judge people because we are in a position to buy nice things, whatever they may be.
Well said. I damn sure am not embarrassed Lol. IDGAF.
I am extremely curious now. Most Best Buy's are doing a midnight release of COD, will they tie that into an iphone X release or make people wait until store opening on that Friday. People could be camping out for 2 totally different reasons as well if they both are midnight releases, lol.
How gutted would you be opening the box and finding a problem, knowing you won’t get a replacement for 6 months...
It always puzzled me why Angela wanted to do away with lines at the store before and on launch day.
It’s such free publicity that the media loves to gobble up.
Having said that, Apple announcing availability at some stores is possibly going to deter the availability of online preorder deliveries as they would foreseeably not want droves of people lining up for only 20 phones per store?
Apple. Such a shot in the bucket for the last few launches at crunch time.
Very different examples. This has been an odd year for an iPhone cycle, with one coming out six weeks prior to the "big" upgrade. It was basically an S model without production issues, so yes, it was possible to buy that model same-day pretty easily.
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With the 7Plus I believe many people had to wait several days, if not weeks, for replacement phones.
With the 7Plus I believe many people had to wait several days, if not weeks, for replacement phones.
Well, the debate of who is more loyal between someone willing to camp a line for many hours versus sit in the comfort of their home preordering then waiting for delivery has just been started.
Depends how many issues there are I guess, and how fast they go through the replacement stock they have. But it certainly won't be 6 months without a phone.
If the phone is DOA, I'm sure they will have it replaced fairly quickly. If it's the usual 'my screen is yellow' they might make you wait.
If that's the case that stores only get that amount, they better make that clear to people waiting outside their store the day/evening before. You don't want to have 100+ people waiting hours, some in the cold, only to find out the store only had 20-30 in stock. You could have some "problems" if you do. One more thing, maybe Apple should require that iPhone X purchases made the first few days/weeks can only be completed with a valid credit card, some government issued ID like a drivers license and activation through a US carrier (or some proof you're a current subscriber of AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint, etc).
Interestingly, the 8 was the only Apple product I've ever had difficulty getting here in NZ -- every store we went to had sold out, and I ordered it online instead. I would have ordered online originally but we made the decision to get it temporarily when we were out and so assumed that going to somewhere in the mall would be easier. Previous phones and other things right back to the first day of iPad there has never been a problem.
I suspect they've sold a lot more iphone 8's than people might imagine. And I'm sure they'll sell a heap of the X.
They do seem a bit contradictory.
I think this phone is going to sell much better than people think.
I also suspect that lackluster sales of the 8/8 plus mean that they need some stores with queues out front for marketing and shareholder pep rallies.