So, I'm curious if anyone has been reading any reports anywhere on this but I'm curious about a couple things related to AT&T's new method of preordering. First, how I did it was I logged into my account and left it at the upgrade page at 9:00pm central. Set my alarm and came back about 1:50am and the screen was now on the AT&T count-down Iphone X preorder page and jumped right to the count-down at 2:00am. It said it was holding my queue and I had a 4 minute wait. I never touched the screen-no refreshes. Ordered and done with a confirming email at 2:09.
It seems to me that AT&T's method of telling me I was in a queue and showing me a timer kept me from killing their network with refreshes. The question I have is whether my logging in early and leaving it there put me higher in queue and/or not refreshing the page kept me in a better position. It seemed to work very smooth to me, but I see others had a number of issues with their place in queue being cancelled and other delays. I wonder if refreshing was one of the problems for them. Or possibly having multiple pages open under the same account in different queues was screwing things up for them?
BTW, I did the same thing with Apple.com, both on my computer and on my iphone. Didn't get into the apple store on either until at least 15-20 minutes after launch
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