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Apple Watch Will Be Available in Apple Retail Stores Starting in June
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I'm guessing the lines won't be long. Anyone who really wants the watch enough to wait in line for it, has probably pre-ordered and most will hopefully have theirs by June.
All pre-orders (orders placed April 10th to April 23rd) should be delivered before they become available in stores, IMO.
So a week or so after my Space Black Link arrives, people will be able to go to an Apple Store and buy one?
A lot of assumptions here but I'm going to assume that only the most plentiful watches will be available at first because there's no way Apple would put a watch in stock on a Retail shelf without first satisfying all online orders first. No way, no how.
A lot of assumptions here but I'm going to assume that only the most plentiful watches will be available at first because there's no way Apple would put a watch in stock on a Retail shelf without first satisfying all online orders first. No way, no how.
A month ago some people were screaming at Apple for not having them in store. Now some people are screaming at Apple for having them in store.
Apple sells through multiple channels. It's ramping up supply, and it's about to start feeding another channel. Apple is NOT going to freeze all channels until the first one is completed!
You ordered on 4/11, a full 24 hours after the launch, when it was already common knowledge about supply constraints. You are a long way down the queue. A different queue is going to start moving.
I hope the complainers on this thread aren't like this in supermarket queues
I'd imagine stores would receive models that are available, not all models. Models, such as yours, which have long delays aren't going to be sticked initially.
It doesn't make sense to hold back ALL models for stores until ALL pre-orders are filled.
As frustrating as it is waiting patiently for my watch, I'm sure Apple execs aren't too happy with the roll-out either. As much as people complain (myself included) Apple's intention was never to have people waiting 2 months for their watch. The stars weren't in alignment on this one. Who knows, maybe they wanted to wait till they had more of a supply to have a successful launch. Wall Street and the suits may have felt otherwise. It's all about the bottom line and return on investment....We will never really know.
Its hard to guage the watch as "phenomenom" because of all the supply issues. Reviews were tepid, but reported early orders strong. Follow on developer demonstrations have been laughable. So where is this product going? How do you re up consumer momentum when you supplies show up months late?
My local Apple Store already has a ton of iWatches sitting around. It seems odd that they wouldn't be for sale though, especially since they take up a pretty big chunk of the available floor space.
There's a principle in play. Order early online and we will get one to you as soon as we can is the inherent message of preorder.
Will they offer an in store service of hassle free pickup of the watch you want and cancel the one you had on preorder with no fear of what you want being out of stock?
I damn well better get mine, sitting at "JUNE", ordered on 4/10 @ xx:08, PRIOR to someone being able to buy the same model and band in an Apple Store.
The watch roll-out is about as bad as it could be given that it's Apple and they usually have a plan. Apple would never say things were bad of course. It's interesting that Tim Cook's strength was supposed to be logistics. Perhaps he put too much faith in a few new people and they didn't make it happen or gave inaccurate time frames. It's also possible that the company made the decision to rush the roll-out to March to make room for Apple TV or other product roll-outs in the 2nd half of the year. Hopefully the watch accessory issues won't affect other products.
Makes sense, so say that as opposed to marketing speak which is vague.
Many people have watches on preorder slated for the end of June delivery, they will probably arrive early or very early, all will be well, at least in PR terms.
There is an arrogance developing which even Steve's reality distortion field didn't fall to as it was contrary to his values.
Folks. If you ordered in April you are about to get a bump forward in your estimated delivery date. Basically, nearly everyone who has an expected delivery of March 22 has either received their watch or it is preparing for shipment. So the March 22 period folks are going to be fulfilled by the end of this week. Apple has basically given everyone after that a June 22 shipment period. Guess what? Apple isn't going to stop delivering watches for a month between March 22 and June 22. Therefore many of the June 22 folks are going to get another email, probably be the end of this week, updating their shipment period.
I'm sure if you pre-ordered, then you will get your watch before it is broadly available in stores. Now if you ordered after April 24, well then maybe you won't.
I'm sure if you pre-ordered, then you will get your watch before it is broadly available in stores. Now if you ordered after April 24, well then maybe you won't.
Frustrating, sure, but isn't this exactly the way it is for every new Apple product? I never pre-order iPhones but by keeping tabs on the Apple Store app I'm still able to get them at my local store before many online orders do.
How long does the battery last with that type of usage? If it had 8GB of onboard storage available for MP3/podcasts I'd get one to replace my iPod Nano watch.
Interesting indeed. I suspect your not allowed to say this but I like that you have. What I don't like is that this sort of comment isn't appended to news that the watches will be in stores.
Just in case they don't manage to fulfil a few, because it's OK to upset a few people so long as the masses are happy.
Incidentally - that's pretty similar to what the store shows for new orders (5-7 weeks)