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Other If iPhones will not be announced tomorrow, then why are iPhones being taken off display in tech/carrier stores?
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How many carriers have you seen do that? It may just be them running low on stock too.
There are nearly 1,000 Best Buy stores across the U.S.
Some guy on Reddit finds in one store, iPhone displays were taken down and assumes nothing else (cleaning, software maintenance, theft, etc.).
If something was happening, you would see some action from the world's largest mobile carriers - China Mobile, Vodafone, T-Mobile, etc.
Some guy on Reddit finds in one store, iPhone displays were taken down and assumes nothing else (cleaning, software maintenance, theft, etc.).
If something was happening, you would see some action from the world's largest mobile carriers - China Mobile, Vodafone, T-Mobile, etc.
Pre-order ads. The carriers don't know the specs, but they know the dates.
Right now, it's crickets.
Even if they were announced tomorrow, it’s basically confirmed that COVID constraints are resulting in an OCT-NOV launch. Why would stores take down displays a month ahead of time, and not use that opportunity to firesale their stock? Doesn’t make sense. I’m not totally convinced we’ll see phones tomorrow.
With all the sporadic civil unrest in Portland, maybe it was just a precaution should the store be looted.
I don't recall ever seeing adverts for the phone before it was released in previous years.....
All the carrier stores I have seen do not have any phones in display regardless of manufacturer. It’s appointment only in some places too due to COVID. It’s been like this for months.
If this proves accurate, I really like what Apple is doing, by using the digital media events with the Apple Watch, Airtags, followed by the iPhone having its own real spotlight staggered away from some of these other products. All it does is give traction to the main core products, where the sub-accessories like the Apple Watch/AirPods have their event.
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Ordered an 11 pro max online from tmobile yesterday. The website said it was in stock as of 9pm cst yesterday when I ordered with a ship date of 09/15 - 09/16. Is this supposedly across retail stores only (ex. Best Buy) and not carrier stores?
Cannot see how a new watch, an iPad and iOS 14 is going to take 2 hours to talk about...
Every media outlet is mentioning phones, there's going to be some pretty annoyed customers out there expecting phones if there are none. My money is on them announcing at least the 5.4" 12 model as there's also been a fair few leaks of the device/casing/cases etc like there always are just before a phone release.
But who knows, we shall have to wait and see...
Every media outlet is mentioning phones, there's going to be some pretty annoyed customers out there expecting phones if there are none. My money is on them announcing at least the 5.4" 12 model as there's also been a fair few leaks of the device/casing/cases etc like there always are just before a phone release.
But who knows, we shall have to wait and see...
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Seems like the keynote today isn't about the iPhone (short of there being some sort of "one more thing" type of surprise).
