But still plenty of 15 Pro available, so long as you step up the memory, and/or want a different color than Natural.
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Apple Store Down Ahead of iPhone 15 Pre-Orders
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Full screen shot. Order went through at 11 minutes after the hour when I got an error message and many error messages after! Apple didn’t let me know till 27 minutes after that my order was already placed. I was about to have 3 iPhone orders when I went to my MacBook to order through the website, as well as Safari on my iPhone.
Sounds like what happened to me on Apple Store app... after hit place order, just sat there spinning. Finally said session timed out... than I could not get back into the app.
But I got a confirmation email, with the right information. I click the order number, and brings up the correct information in Chrome.
Still not showing on my apple account in orders... but I believe this happened before over the years... in an hour or so, it shows up in the "normal" order history.
Looks like I got lucky. It took me 24 minutes to place the order, but my 512GB Blue Pro Max will be delivered on the 22nd.
In this case we are not talking about just many users. We are talking about everyone hitting Apple's web site / store at the same time.
That being said, disabling the store during an Apple event and before preorders start are a ritual. It has little* to do with a technical necessity.
It also has the practical effect of preventing shoppers to order old devices minutes/hours before the new gear is put online.
(*) The only plausible reason I could think of is to clear and refill all content delivery caches reliably.
In Austria the store opened 15min past the announced time - crashed several times - and from second one the Pro max 256GB in natural Titanium was sold out..
Other colors or upgraded memory was available for sep 22 for about 30min..
I think that was easy to predict - and maybe apple just wanted us to upgrade the ram by not offering enough of the base version to last for 10 seconds?
I will get mine on Oct 3 - as I resisted to change color or ram 😎😁
But the store was this time really not up to the usual apple standard - it crashed way to often..
Cheers,
thomas
Other colors or upgraded memory was available for sep 22 for about 30min..
I think that was easy to predict - and maybe apple just wanted us to upgrade the ram by not offering enough of the base version to last for 10 seconds?
I will get mine on Oct 3 - as I resisted to change color or ram 😎😁
But the store was this time really not up to the usual apple standard - it crashed way to often..
Cheers,
thomas
My order of blue PM 256g said shipping was Sept 22 when the order went thru, but the confirmation e-mail I got from Apple says Oct 2-4. Oh well.
Anyone have an order which doesn't show in your account, and when you click the email confirmation order number you get sent to /sorry and "Something went wrong"?
My saved pre-preorder had a payment error, and I had to change its payment type to complete checkout. That's the one which says "Something went wrong" when trying to view it's data.
After I got the error, I tried preordering a second with the original payment method, not from the saved pre-preorder, and it worked fine. But, now I seem to have two preorders for pickup next Friday, albeit one is some nether realm
My saved pre-preorder had a payment error, and I had to change its payment type to complete checkout. That's the one which says "Something went wrong" when trying to view it's data.
After I got the error, I tried preordering a second with the original payment method, not from the saved pre-preorder, and it worked fine. But, now I seem to have two preorders for pickup next Friday, albeit one is some nether realm
wooohooo, don't you just feel warm and fuzzy when you know you are right? hehe'waits for the numerous threads of 'website crashed/stalled now showing 2 ordered, what do i do?' threads
it happened
Apple Store crashes and errors on order/pre-order day probably shouldn't be much of a surprise as these sorts of things have been occurring since the early years of the iPhone.
If it was so easy then even a non-technology based company wouldn't have problems. Check the Ticketmaster shutdowns with Taylor Swift concerts, or the posts of people having problems with their orders:
I forgot to post on Instagram that I did the pre-order because I was so emotionally drained from the 30 minutes of refreshing the Apple Store app on iPad and iPhone and also refreshing their desktop website in Safari and Arc.
just a few examples. Although I have worked with large systems do confess that I haven't configured them. If you have experience working with these kind of back end system then maybe you can explain why people experience all of these problems, as they do occur every year with iPhone ordering.
That Apple and some other companies s*ck doesn't refute that it's easy. Your quotes are irrelevant. In Apple's case it's probably done intentionally to drive up the hype. Otherwise, it's either incompetence or being cheap. They won't spend more if the system can handle most events, and swifties will buy tickets even if they have to sit in front of a screen whole day, clicking refresh. They'll sell what they have anyway, and they can't sell more with a better system.
my order didn't work. after applepay phase gave many errors so I gave up. the experience sucked.
then an hour later i got an email that it is ordered.
it is quite unprofessional how this is handled considering they are releasing phones each year.
then an hour later i got an email that it is ordered.
it is quite unprofessional how this is handled considering they are releasing phones each year.
just got an email that there is a problem with the payment. that's odd because I used apple pay and I'm using it daily, also used it today and I have more than enough limit for getting the iphone.
Then I tried 3 different cards from 3 different banks on the order page, including one company card. all got stuck at the last part and then site kept giving internal errors.
Such an unprofessional way of doing things at apple.
I don't even know if i'll be able to get my phone.
Then I tried 3 different cards from 3 different banks on the order page, including one company card. all got stuck at the last part and then site kept giving internal errors.
Such an unprofessional way of doing things at apple.
I don't even know if i'll be able to get my phone.
I believe most plans have reduced EPP pricing widely, not just on newly released things. There’s still a few things that you’ll get a few percent off, but the days of 15% across the board on almost everything seems to be gone.
I feel like the Store crashes were new. I’d almost always get in via the App while the website was reloading. This was the first time, for me, that the site came up while the app went bonkers.
One thing that’s interesting is right now when trying to order, it’ll say “In store Pickup available on Sep 22”… until you go through the process and, when you choose pickup, it’ll check your area for stores and, if none have pickup available, THEN it will tell you you can get it delivered in Oct or Nov.