The fact that you believe that was the case for iOS products is a bit ridiculous. We're talking about numbers that are an engineering feat in themselves to have been met.
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Apple Watch Sold Out in Less Than 6 Hours as Shipping Times Slip on All Models
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The fact that you believe that was the case for iOS products is a bit ridiculous. We're talking about numbers that are an engineering feat in themselves to have been met.
Apple has earnings later this month (23rd I think) and I am almost certain they said they would not discuss sales of the Apple Watch for that earnings report - considering it won't actually release until the 24th, it makes some sense. Though I am sure many analysts will be making wild predictions from 1mm to 10mm.
Some of the late breaking news about being able to send and receive texts with no phone and over 1000 apps already submitted may have swayed more people into buying. Just a guess though...
So you have a $600 watch on your wrist, an $850 phone in your pocket ... thieves will notice you're worth a lot of money walking down the street...
just sayin'
Of course they have NEVER noticed a Rolex, or Tag etc...
You just provided a direct example of what Lars T. said. Not an alternative. Besides, when your a 3/4 Trillion dollar company, you don't need to get cute. You have product? You sell it and make more. The sales quarter will end soon and everyone internal to Apple as well as the investors rely on those numbers to justify their jobs, bonuses, and options. There is no upside to leaving anything in storage. At worst, you get cute and do so, more reviews and end users come out slamming your product, the bloom is off the rose and you now have a backed up pipeline and warehouses of unsold product that now go fire sale as interest has waned, not gotten better. The idea of falsely creating scarcity just makes no sense and would easily cost people jobs.
Here is how it could be. Maybe they want to see what is popular before they ramp up production on those types that are in high demand.
Wouldn't that be something a reasonable person could suggest regarding an intentional restriction?
When I say waterproof means not for divers but something like 10m to 30m max. I am a swimmer and surfer. I would love to track swimming as my daily activity. At some point Apple will figure this out. Most high end watches are waterproof to some degree so I do think this is something Apple have on their minds.
I am almost certain (because I have seen analyst complaints, lol) that even if they vaguely discuss sales, they never break down sales of a product. They never reveal the breakdown of iPhone sales (6 versus 6 plus etc), so they sure won't for the watch either. They will let us know how many sold opening weekend, or leading up to launch day, but that's all we will get.
Same here. No issues at all, set alarm for 11:55pm, woke up, ordered through Apple Store iPhone/iPad app, went back to bed within a few minutes. 4/24 to 5/8 delivery window.The Apple Store App seemed to come up for preorders before the online store - had no issues at 12:01 PDT ordering two watches for April 24 delivery
*I've learned this from previous iPhone releases. Seems like the app is almost the only way to order to ensure release date/week delivery.
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I ordered my iPhone 6+ the morning of the release and was given a delivery date of 4 weeks. I ordered the SS Apple Watch with Black Classic Buckle the morning of the release and was given a delivery of 4-6 weeks. I do not believe that Apple had supply equal for the Watch as the iPhone but one had three colors and three memory sizes and the other had 3 versions and two sizes and many color combinations. Not sure any company would make millions in each variation in hopes it meets demand on everything.
Apple does use BigData analysis to try and determine demand and targets, but there are just too many versions to get the right number for supplies.
This is just my educated guess... which still means just a guess.
I don't understand why so many people have such a defensive reaction to other people posting predictions of this product failing. Almost as if they are taking the Apple watch criticism personally.
Just because YOU want one, doesn't mean that the next person who doesn't want one is an idiot.
I guess you believe we never landed on the moon and that the evolution theory is crap too. If something doesn't fit your way of thinking there must be a conspiracy.
Between those two, only the moon landing has been proven. The other is theory.
Please explain why they would do this. And please do so from the point of view from a company that wants to make a profit.
Exactly, especially a whole new product. It's not like a iPhone X to iPhone XS, where most fof the tooling stays the same.
Apple never wins. If sales are underwhelming, people call it a flop. If they sell out rapidly, people criticize their supply chain.
Sometimes it works the inverse of this. I've placed orders with 4-6 weeks lead times from Apple and gotten it earlier...
Tim Cook knows what he is doing
apple are masters at this game. I just hope people that really want one, can get it ASAP . I ordered 2, and if I do not keep them, will offer them to people who really want them, that I knowThere I was at 12:01am reloading the page until I could order.
Ordered a black stainless at 12:04.
Delivery in June?
Ordered a black stainless at 12:04.
Delivery in June?
HUh?
No, the idiots are the people saying the Apple Watch is going to fail, no one should buy one, and that long shipping times are a result of artificial scarcity.
No, the idiots are the people saying the Apple Watch is going to fail, no one should buy one, and that long shipping times are a result of artificial scarcity.
Here we go again with the "Apple sells out of _____ on opening day!!"
1)Define sold out today? Did Apple sell a million? 50,000?
2)They weren't even shipping until a full week later anyway
3)Apple (and other companies) are notorious for "selling out" on a new product launch so they can go tell the media and their press conferences how overjoyed they are and cannot keep up with demand. Yeah. Right. Apple announced the Watch 6+ months ago and couldn't seem to manufacture, say, 20 million in 6 months?
4)Apple sells out and instantly there won't be any more until at least 4-6 weeks from now?! 4-6 weeks is an eternity in the tech world.
5)4-6 weeks seems to indicate that Apple made very few Watches...so few that, gee, it will take at least 4-6 weeks for Apple to make more. My guess is Apple manufactured maybe 2 million Watches...again, that weren't even supposed to ship until next week anyway.
Don't get me wrong...it's great that Apple and Macrumors and other media outlets are tooting the horns that Apple sold out of the Watches...but let's be realistic in that this is simply advertising and under-manufacturing.
1)Define sold out today? Did Apple sell a million? 50,000?
2)They weren't even shipping until a full week later anyway
3)Apple (and other companies) are notorious for "selling out" on a new product launch so they can go tell the media and their press conferences how overjoyed they are and cannot keep up with demand. Yeah. Right. Apple announced the Watch 6+ months ago and couldn't seem to manufacture, say, 20 million in 6 months?
4)Apple sells out and instantly there won't be any more until at least 4-6 weeks from now?! 4-6 weeks is an eternity in the tech world.
5)4-6 weeks seems to indicate that Apple made very few Watches...so few that, gee, it will take at least 4-6 weeks for Apple to make more. My guess is Apple manufactured maybe 2 million Watches...again, that weren't even supposed to ship until next week anyway.
Don't get me wrong...it's great that Apple and Macrumors and other media outlets are tooting the horns that Apple sold out of the Watches...but let's be realistic in that this is simply advertising and under-manufacturing.
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Evolution itself is not a theory, things evolve and have evolved, no question about this; and no this doesn't contradict the idea of Creation.
People who believe this are ridiculous. Apple only makes money if they sell stuff, and you can't "create" demand through scarcity - you create price bumps through scarcity.
Example: if the meth supply goes down, more people don't want to buy meth. What happens is those who want to buy meth pay more for it.
The fact is, it takes time to make things. This isn't cereal, where there's a huge pool of possible producers making a bunch of commodity items that people can stock in inventory for weeks. This is something brand new, made to relatively tight tolerances.
Bah. We 'Murkins measure such things in Imperial craptons, as you UKians (of all people) should know.
Please explain how they manage to under-produce AND sell record iPhones every release?
The numbers aren't out for the Watch yet so it remains to be seen if this pattern continues with this product.
The numbers aren't out for the Watch yet so it remains to be seen if this pattern continues with this product.