Did you get the 6? If so, that's why. The 6+ is the one that's delayed. I ordered under Premier and my 6+ is saying within 21-28 business days.
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Apple's iPhone 6 Plus Pre-Order Shipping Estimates Slip to 3-4 Weeks
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Did you get the 6? If so, that's why. The 6+ is the one that's delayed. I ordered under Premier and my 6+ is saying within 21-28 business days.
iPhone 6 looks like another iPhone 4, same specs with more pixels. Can't run iOS 7 on it for lack of RAM and CPU. Tick, Tock. iPhone 6 S doubles RAM and CPU.
True. But it's one of those things that still can be criticized by a few I suppose. We'll have to wait and see how good the display is. If it's really a significant improvement from the previous generation in colors, contrast, etc, it'll be great.
I'm so tired of the DUR HUR SAME MEGAPIXELS MEANS THE SAME QUALITY crowd.
Once you've over 6 or so, it's not the number of pixels that counts, it's the quality of the pixels. How much light each can gather, noise level, and so on. A good example is that an 8MP professional SLR will completely destroy a cheap 8MP pocket digicam ANY DAY. (And destroy the iPhone's camera too!)
Megapixels mean little these days. Pretty much all cameras have enough pixels to make a sufficiently sharp image. It's all about noise per pixel and light sensitivity these days.
People need to get that through their head. We will preach it til the end!
Don't know why I am surprised
You'd think Apple would do better research about what people will actually order. The ATT site went live for me at 1:58am Central. I was done with my order for a 6+ Gold 126GB at 2:02am. Got an email that said 14-21 days. When I got up, I had another email telling me Oct 22nd.
Seriously?
You'd think Apple would do better research about what people will actually order. The ATT site went live for me at 1:58am Central. I was done with my order for a 6+ Gold 126GB at 2:02am. Got an email that said 14-21 days. When I got up, I had another email telling me Oct 22nd.
Seriously?
I only asked because i ordered from ATT 15 mins earlier than the official pre-order 2:40am EST to be exact. And still got a shipment date of 10/02-10/13. Either the plus is in high demand or lower in stock.
Just want to say I agree with you.
I have the OnePlus One which is the same size and resolution. I can't see any pixels unless my noise is touching the screen(doing this also makes the eyes hurt). I'm hoping the 6 Plus will have a brighter screen, better colour vibrancy and less reflection under the sun.
I got through to access my order and it said I can't due to "the policy of your wireless service provider." Seems like it's different than with the 5
Join the club, i ordered mine 20 minutes before it went live and got my conformation at 2:44am EST and still got dates of 10/02-10/13
i agree mostly, but higher RAM makes a difference in refreshes and such, and it matters to many people. i was pretty shocked they didn't bump the 4.7 and go even higher than the 'possibly-maybe rumored' 2gb on the 5.5. this iOS8 better be frickin magical and stop blanking out pages on my 5S when i browse more than 1 tab in safari, assuming that it's iOS8 that truly matters. the refresh action is getting old and i'd personally like an improvement here. y'know, like anyone else who owns a smartphone that apple doesn't make.
I'm wondering if they can't just use compressed memory for the cache as well, sort of how they do in Mavericks. This might be something coming in future iOS releases.
What is the general consensus with sales? Will they be better or worse than in the past? I think people are upgrading less and less.
Mix of both. This is the same story every year, people should be used to it by now. They up numbers and production each year because the last year they were overwhelmed. And each year they are overwhelmed again. It's just the nature of the business, it's not unique to Apple so I don't know why a lot of ignorant folks are pretending it is. I've experienced the same with other smartphones (my wife prefers Android).
You either accept it, or you go back to basic phones. (or choose smartphones no one else is interested in at all)
android phones have more RAM to handle all the bloatware that ships with the phone that you can't uninstall and that runs in the background. it's not like any of it used on anything useful
I only ordered mine from ATT, because for giggles i tired to log in 20 minutes early and it let me. I was waiting for it to eventually lock up and never did
. So i went for the gold thinking i was slipping in early Had the same issue as the rest of the UK bods here. iOS app responsive around 8.25 but showed all models as currently unavailable. Website came up around 8.30 and scored a gold 128GB 6. Confirmation email at 8.39 quoting delivery on launch day.
Whilst the delay was irksome it'll matter not one jot when for the first time in a decade I'll be able to get all of my music on one device - last time I could do that was for the iPod Photo 60GB. The 6 announcement had me at 128GB, price be damned.
Hoping that the reservation/virtual queuing is extended and works for everyone else planning on store pick ups: the fun and camaraderie of the early morning queueing for the iPhone 4 seems to have given way to gangs of scalpers and hostility in recent years, to the point of police being called to the Manchester Arndale store either last year or the year before.
Sympathies for those who's chance came late, or like one of my friends, ordered a 6+ at the earliest opportunity but have a 7-10 day wait minimum. It'll be worth it when you get it.
Whilst the delay was irksome it'll matter not one jot when for the first time in a decade I'll be able to get all of my music on one device - last time I could do that was for the iPod Photo 60GB. The 6 announcement had me at 128GB, price be damned.
Hoping that the reservation/virtual queuing is extended and works for everyone else planning on store pick ups: the fun and camaraderie of the early morning queueing for the iPhone 4 seems to have given way to gangs of scalpers and hostility in recent years, to the point of police being called to the Manchester Arndale store either last year or the year before.
Sympathies for those who's chance came late, or like one of my friends, ordered a 6+ at the earliest opportunity but have a 7-10 day wait minimum. It'll be worth it when you get it.
That sucks. I would hope that it's not a case of something getting screwed up because it went live early.
But yeah, looks like the Plus is in really high demand.
Personally, I ordered last year from Apple, literally the moment the 5s went available for order. Got the base space gray. Emails came from Apple every other day or so until it got up to 8 weeks. Didn't get it until the last Friday of November. The experience wasn't all the different than when I ordered through my carrier with the 4s, and so it seems to make little difference and the deal through my carrier is better. And I don't mind the wait. So why not?
Other have rightly taken you to task for many of your points. I will add another.
The 6+'s screen effectively is 2K. When people talk about 2K and 4K, they are talking about the horizontal resolution, not the vertical resolution. A 1080p screen, which the 6+ has, is 1080 x 1920. It's the 1920 one looks at and says (effectively) "2K". True, it's not 2048, which would technically be true 4K. However, in practice, especially at this screen size, the difference is meaningless.
No different than in consumer televisions where everyone uses UHD and 4K interchangeably even though the resolutions on these are 2160 x 3840. Obviously 3840 is shy of 4K (even more so than 1920 is to 2K) but it's used as such.