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I'm surprised that the iPhone 6 4.7" is still showing 9/19

rainking

rainking

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I thought for sure by now that everything would be 3-4 weeks for delivery. I know the 6+ is. Makes me wonder if they just had a really huge supply of the 6 or if not much people are ordering them and all went with the 6+.
 
rainking said:
I thought for sure by now that everything would be 3-4 weeks for delivery. I know the 6+ is. Makes me wonder if they just had a really huge supply of the 6 or if not much people are ordering them and all went with the 6+.
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Probably because everyone freaked out, made multiple orders by accident, and freaked out at the multiple orders and cancelled the orders.
 
The 6 Plus is probably last year's gold. They didn't make as many because it was essentially the riskiest product they launched. Turns out people really wanted a large screen I guess.
 
I mean it's good news for folks that wanted the 4.7" and didn't want to mess around during the first hour of pre-orders. They could have woke up this morning or even pre-order it when they got out of work. Just surprised. I don't think I've ever seen an iPhone launch where they were still delivering on launch date.
 
I still think the rumors of production delays on the 5.5" is a factor here as well as pre-order crowd being more "techy" and inclined to order the 5.5" I guess we'll never know since Apple doesn't break down sales figures by model. The rumors were that Apple was gearing up to produce 80-90M IP6's this quarter.
 
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jkim3691 said:
Probably because everyone freaked out, made multiple orders by accident, and freaked out at the multiple orders and cancelled the orders.
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This

Apple has to realize by now that most of it's fanatics are NUTS. Especially the ones (like me) willing to pre-order a phone for MSRP in the dead of the night without ever even seeing it in person.

Then, throw a curveball and make it really hard AND slow to pre-order (not to mention full of errors), and do it during a launch that only happens once every 2 years (for non-S models) and you create a frothing mess of people frantically trying to order from every device in the house, and then as soon as they realize one order went through but for the wrong delivery date they want to cancel THAT and re-order again.

Multiply that times about 100,000... and, ya: mess.

I'm dissapointed in Apple. I really am. This ineptitude is alarming for a company worth more than most countries. They HAD to know people were going to go nuts. I don't even work for Apple and I knew. Everyone knew.

Apple didn't?

No way Jose....
 
lordofthereef said:
The 6 Plus is probably last year's gold. They didn't make as many because it was essentially the riskiest product they launched. Turns out people really wanted a large screen I guess.
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I think that might have been true for the Gold 5s, but churning out the iPhone 6 Plus sounds more like a supply constraint problem.
 
JayLenochiniMac said:
I think that might have been true for the Gold 5s, but churning out the iPhone 6 Plus sounds more like a supply constraint problem.
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I honestly think it could be both. I am certainly not an Apple market analyst, but I didn;t expect the Plus to be as popular as it seems to be, especially when a large portion of the hardcore fans were even stating they would go with the 4.7 inch screen due to size issues.
 
itjw said:
This

Apple has to realize by now that most of it's fanatics are NUTS. Especially the ones (like me) willing to pre-order a phone for MSRP in the dead of the night without ever even seeing it in person.

Then, throw a curveball and make it really hard AND slow to pre-order (not to mention full of errors), and do it during a launch that only happens once every 2 years (for non-S models) and you create a frothing mess of people frantically trying to order from every device in the house, and then as soon as they realize one order went through but for the wrong delivery date they want to cancel THAT and re-order again.

Multiply that times about 100,000... and, ya: mess.

I'm dissapointed in Apple. I really am. This ineptitude is alarming for a company worth more than most countries. They HAD to know people were going to go nuts. I don't even work for Apple and I knew. Everyone knew.

Apple didn't?

No way Jose....
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I couldnt agree more man. THERE HAS TO BE A BETTER WAY.
 
lordofthereef said:
The 6 Plus is probably last year's gold. They didn't make as many because it was essentially the riskiest product they launched. Turns out people really wanted a large screen I guess.
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I disagree. I think it's the opposite.. Knowing the 6+ has extra feature to differentiate the 6 it was a way to drive demand for that particular model. Just imagine if everything was even between the two.. I think it would be even across the board in terms of demand. It would probably be heavy support for the 6...
 
rainking said:
I thought for sure by now that everything would be 3-4 weeks for delivery. I know the 6+ is. Makes me wonder if they just had a really huge supply of the 6 or if not much people are ordering them and all went with the 6+.
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I think they made a buttload of 6's. There's no way the 6+ outsold the 6. Just because a lot of people on here are cooing about the 6+ with all those awesome extra features, once people see how ridiculously large they are, the masses will be getting the 6.
 
The new iPhone is also not being launched in China as it has done so in the past which may have made quite a big difference in supply.
 
Blorzoga said:
I think they made a buttload of 6's. There's no way the 6+ outsold the 6. Just because a lot of people on here are cooing about the 6+ with all those awesome extra features, once people see how ridiculously large they are, the masses will be getting the 6.
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Or they can say the 6 is just a small upgrade and want the bigger one. Point is it can go either way.
 
Ludatyk said:
I disagree. I think it's the opposite.. Knowing the 6+ has extra feature to differentiate the 6 it was a way to drive demand for that particular model. Just imagine if everything was even between the two.. I think it would be even across the board in terms of demand. It would probably be heavy support for the 6...
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2nded

itjw said:
This

Apple has to realize by now that most of it's fanatics are NUTS. Especially the ones (like me) willing to pre-order a phone for MSRP in the dead of the night without ever even seeing it in person.

Then, throw a curveball and make it really hard AND slow to pre-order (not to mention full of errors), and do it during a launch that only happens once every 2 years (for non-S models) and you create a frothing mess of people frantically trying to order from every device in the house, and then as soon as they realize one order went through but for the wrong delivery date they want to cancel THAT and re-order again.

Multiply that times about 100,000... and, ya: mess.

I'm dissapointed in Apple. I really am. This ineptitude is alarming for a company worth more than most countries. They HAD to know people were going to go nuts. I don't even work for Apple and I knew. Everyone knew.

Apple didn't?

No way Jose....
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doubt it. It costs money to build the infrastructure to support that much bandwidth. Apple Store was semi-down for 2 hrs before returning to normal operations. The cost to build it up so it never went down is most likely greater then taking that 2 hr hit. Just think how much extra capacity they would have sitting idle during the rest of the year.
 
itjw said:
This

Apple has to realize by now that most of it's fanatics are NUTS. Especially the ones (like me) willing to pre-order a phone for MSRP in the dead of the night without ever even seeing it in person.

Then, throw a curveball and make it really hard AND slow to pre-order (not to mention full of errors), and do it during a launch that only happens once every 2 years (for non-S models) and you create a frothing mess of people frantically trying to order from every device in the house, and then as soon as they realize one order went through but for the wrong delivery date they want to cancel THAT and re-order again.

Multiply that times about 100,000... and, ya: mess.

I'm dissapointed in Apple. I really am. This ineptitude is alarming for a company worth more than most countries. They HAD to know people were going to go nuts. I don't even work for Apple and I knew. Everyone knew.

Apple didn't?

No way Jose....
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Look at it this way: you know Apple has huge capacity on its servers, but you also know how wildly popular their products are. The demand simply overwhelmed their capacity, it happens. It should be expected. My order went through in 10 minutes. I had three devices going, and the iPad mini won.
 
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