Interesting that O2 have put nothing on their website about it. The other networks in the UK seem to be so far behind EE.
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HomePod preordering
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Yeah think it's due to the partnership EE have with apple...
I'm wondering if adding the HomePod to my EE line how much it would be monthly.
Yeah but considering it’s just us chatting, demand should be low enough that we’ll all get one in the morning. All good.
Now that I think about it, the Store didn’t even go down as it usually does for a new product. This launch is weird.
Looks like the four or five of us that are up right now will have a good chance to snag one later today, haha!!
Given the ‘27.1’ date on Australia‘s store, it’s a good bet (at least the next one to try for).
It's certainly not true that Apple has always specified a time. In fact, I'd guess it's less than half of releases they actually specify a time. From there, it can be fairly random anywhere from midnight Cupertino time to some morning hour where stores are about to open.
So for future reference, never make the assumption they will specify a time or even stick to a pattern.
From pressing Command+R so many times for the last 20 minutes, I have now nearly memorized all the text on the www.apple.com/homepod/ page.
It looks like I sacrificed animals, firstborn, and prayed to pagan gods for nothing. Going back go to bed since I have work in the morning,
For the next launch I'll write a Web page scraper that wakes me up when the product goes on sale. Yeah, that's the ticket!
For the next launch I'll write a Web page scraper that wakes me up when the product goes on sale. Yeah, that's the ticket!
Makes me think Apple might go with 13:00GMT (00:00 27/1 Australia). I think resellers aren't supposed to (or are scared of) taking orders before Apple!
I am working from home today so keeping a close eye on this. This is obviously a soft launch so no fanfare. I think you are right and this will be a 1pm launch in the UK and a more reasonable time of the day for our friends in the U.S
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You would think Apple could at least give its supporters a time slot to buy, but no!