Not too mention the 7 looks better with the matte and jet black colors. Not enough upgrades on the 8 to be called that. It barely qualifies as an S upgrade.
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Here's a Behind-the-Scenes Look at Apple's Pre-Order 'War Room'
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Ahhh... yeah... Okay. I never use the website. Just the app. Experience has taught me it's nearly immediate.
I will cut her slack. She was CEO of Burbery from 2006 to 2014. She probably has a closet full of their coats.
And will people diss Tim Cook for using an iPhone when he leaves the CEO spot at Apple?
Every photo of her is in a white long coat.
[doublepost=1506108473][/doublepost]I am not buying into the idea that everyone is waiting on an iPhone X as the reason the 8/8plus are not back ordered longer and you can get one at the stores today. I was at my Apple store today at 1pm and it was no busier than any other day around the same time. I was looking for 4k TV in 64GB but only 32GB.
I think a lot of iPhone buyers upgraded on the 7, the 8's are not enough of a design departure and the X is a lot more expensive than the 8/8 Plus. They will play the limited lauch stock as if the demand was so overwhelming like they do every year. Where is Apple's typical announcement of how many pre-orders they got or that they sold out of stock when in reality the stock is in their stores and not in supply chain where it could be available. How about you simply fulfill the pre-orders first and then the stores second.
In the video she said that 50% of the orders now come in the app too, I wonder if they optimize the app to be more efficient as well.
Quite possible. I usually open the website, have the app open on my iPad and my iPhone.
I mean it when I say I do not play around with a preorder. I dunno if the X will end my perfect preorder reign, but if it does, most everyone else is probably screwed, too.
It may have a very similar form factor (the 7/7+ cases apparently fit on the 8/8+ phones), but with a glass back, wireless charging, A11 Bionic chips with Neural Engine, faster graphics, improved camera, etc., it is an improved phone, so yeah, it legitimately deserves a new name.
Additionally I think 8, rather than 7S has also a lot to do with marketing in the absence of a truly new form factor.
With Apple facing stiff competition in the Chinese market from Huawei and others, which is a serious threat to Apple's high hopes for substantial inroads into that massive market, I believe choosing 8 as the moniker for this year's iPhones was Apple's attempt at capitalizing on the Chinese superstitions of 8 being a 'Lucky Number'.
Just my .02.
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Ever since the logistics guy became CEO Apple has launched in more countries in Phase 1 and 2 and the time gap has narrowed.
Harrisburg isn't a port at all; but it does have good interstate access, and is relatively close to Philadelphia and Erie, which ARE large container ports.
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Oh, he will...
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I thought they are coming back with the new Mac Pro.
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So, OBVIOUSLY, it WAS "live" for MANY; just not YOU.
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Oh, you mean you would have wanted to see the iPhone 8 REALLY tank???
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They are truly going to have a limited-stock issue with the iPhone X. The issue is the display, which is suffering from low-yield (read: Apple's High Quality-Standards) issues.
No, I would applaud that
(but warn him that some lunatic in his company, as an industry exclusive, chose GLASS as a back cover)
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Yep....What is more important....send one man into space for a show and a little science or handle half of the world pockets in one room .... Think different
[doublepost=1506182983][/doublepost]Why is Angela wearing a lab coat?
BuzzFeed News has put together a video of how Apple prepares for an iPhone launch day around the world.
When iPhone 8, Apple Watch Series 3, and Apple TV 4K pre-orders began at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time last Friday, dozens of Apple engineers were assembled in a so-called "war room" to ensure the process went smoothly.
For around three hours, these engineers sat in front of at least 10 TVs forming a larger display, which appears to show the system status of pre-orders in launch countries. One engineer had a map of the world open on his iMac.
"Over half of the orders that night will come in through the Apple Store app," said Apple's retail chief Angela Ahrendts. "We turn the whole world on at once. I think you saw the map with everything lighting up all over the world."
BuzzFeed reporter Nicole Nguyen then visited UPS's Worldport shipping facility in Louisville, Kentucky, a major hub for Apple products.
Nguyen said the volume of Apple products is so large that UPS has to set aside time to sort just those deliveries. Apple's launch day haul took up an entire large room, and the products later traveled along miles of conveyor belts.
UPS delivers some of the orders to Apple retail stores, while others arrive directly at customers' doorsteps.
Apple retail stores usually attract long queues of customers on launch days, but the crowds have been smaller for today's iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus launch. Many customers are likely waiting for the iPhone X, which launches November 3.
Article Link: Here's a Behind-the-Scenes Look at Apple's Pre-Order 'War Room'
Why is it that women are many more times more likely to have their looks and dress criticized? It's sexism, and it's so pervasive that you and the 20+ others who upvoted you might not even realize it.
Probably more likely trying to hide a horde of gold. With a net worth estimated at over $250 Million, she has a lot.
I'm genuinely impressed by the high quality of this short documentary production that certainly stands as a a shining monument of truth in diametric opposition to all those Apple naysayers out there trying to peddle their self-deluding lies about how Apple will be filing corporate bankrupty relatively soon as a result of decreasing iPhone sales. With over 30 million paying Apple Music subscribers alone, Apple continues to positively demonstrate how their superbly marketed and collectively appreciated eco-system is progressively advanced by their synergistic morphing of hardware and software into the kind of technological achievements worthy of our current generation and those to come. Some sections showing the large room filled with closely monitored Apple computers tracking the initial launch of the pre-order phase reminded me of scenes from favorite movies I've seen where our US military is strategically tracking some globally prominent event with the same kind of conscientious care and concern despite the obvious absence of potentially devastating consequences in Apple's War Rooms where a temporary power outage might be the worst of any nightmare scenario.
Perhaps someday (though not in my lifetime) Apple will actually lease a legion of drones from one of the divisions of the US Military to deliver their iPhones by dropping them into the back yards of those who checked the box marked "Siri Air-Express" earlier that day. As you may have guessed already, those drones will be programmed to say something using Siri's voice from a loudspeaker attached to the bottom of the drone so that right after the package has been delivered, comments like these might be heard by those positioned within hearing distance located below and those wearing Apple's latest AirPods who are tuned into the special frequency listed on the receipt:
"Please tell that angry cow I really wasn't aiming for her backside since my calculations indicated she's usually being milked this time every day! But thanks to the revolutionary Apple-designed iCushion packaging, she'll be off of crutches before she even thinks of contacting a lawyer."
OR...
"Here's your iPhone LXXV and we do recommend you pronounce it as "Apple Eye-Phone Seventy Five" since "EL-XXX-VEE" is a registered trademark for "The Lunar Xylophone Valley Company", makers of the first musical instrument made for and by moon-dwellers."
Perhaps someday (though not in my lifetime) Apple will actually lease a legion of drones from one of the divisions of the US Military to deliver their iPhones by dropping them into the back yards of those who checked the box marked "Siri Air-Express" earlier that day. As you may have guessed already, those drones will be programmed to say something using Siri's voice from a loudspeaker attached to the bottom of the drone so that right after the package has been delivered, comments like these might be heard by those positioned within hearing distance located below and those wearing Apple's latest AirPods who are tuned into the special frequency listed on the receipt:
"Please tell that angry cow I really wasn't aiming for her backside since my calculations indicated she's usually being milked this time every day! But thanks to the revolutionary Apple-designed iCushion packaging, she'll be off of crutches before she even thinks of contacting a lawyer."
OR...
"Here's your iPhone LXXV and we do recommend you pronounce it as "Apple Eye-Phone Seventy Five" since "EL-XXX-VEE" is a registered trademark for "The Lunar Xylophone Valley Company", makers of the first musical instrument made for and by moon-dwellers."