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'Incredible' Response to iPhone 6 and 6 Plus as Apple Sets Overnight Pre-Order Sales Record

Tekzilla said:
Is there any chance of any of our dates being moved forward?

Like I don't know if I've seen a single 128GB+ scheduled for launch day delivery? Mine is in the shortest window I've seen which is 7-10 days.
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My wife's silver and daughter's gold iphone 6+ 64 GB AT&T phones are delivering 9/19. My gray iphone 6+ 128 GB AT&T phone is delivering the same as yours -- 7-10 business days.
 
Trapezoid said:
yep, but I honestly don't see it from all android fans. It's some Samsung fans that are more rabid than the craziest apple fanboys. And I can't stand Samsung as a company.

But htc, lg, moto they're all great companies and make great phones.
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That sounds like a generalization.
 
Hooray! I was able to reserve a 64GB 6 on a 2 year contract at my local Bell mobility store. They will call when their stock comes in on the 19th and I simply pick it up. No lines, no fuss, no waits for a later date. I can't wait :D.
 
Interesting, 30 minutes ago it said my phone was backordered and would ship in 21-28 business days... about 10 minutes ago I got a text saying my order is processed and is preparing for shipment. I logged into ATT.com and it also states "preparing to ship".

I hope it comes on Friday! 6+ 128gb space gray.
 
I don't know which one to get... The plus has better specs and almost twice the battery life but it's humongously big, it's a phablet.
 
Macinva said:
Interesting, 30 minutes ago it said my phone was backordered and would ship in 21-28 business days... about 10 minutes ago I got a text saying my order is processed and is preparing for shipment. I logged into ATT.com and it also states "preparing to ship".

I hope it comes on Friday! 6+ 128gb space gray.
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Lucky you :D

I was able to pre-order my wife's iPhone 6 128GB with AT&T this morning.

I'm going to do what I do every year. Stand outside the AT&T store near my house on Friday and hope they have the 6+ 128GB in Space Gray so I can upgrade my phone. I upgrade every year since I have 4 lines on my family plan and I alternate between my line and my mom-in-law's line (she doesn't use a smartphone). This year, it was her line that qualified for an upgrade; so I'll have to do this manually on Friday which is why I didn't do it online (otherwise AT&T, in all their glory, will slap on a data plan on her line). :rolleyes:
 
bookcase said:
THANK YOU! :) This is for 10GB shared data, and your breakdown makes perfect sense. I've gone ahead and ordered the two iPhones (64GB Plus, space gray), which have an estimated delivery of October 13–20.

But I don't understand why I had to place two separate orders, nor why I can't have them delivered to my work address. Regardless, I appreciate the insight of all of you who helped me figure out the costs of Next vs. contract.
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You can actually tack on another $80 to the total cost of the 2-year contract route, because AT&T charges a $40 activation fee for each phone on the contract (went up from $36 to $40 recently), whereas for phones added to a Next plan, there is no activation fee at all.

So it's actually even a bit more of a difference; $5,198 for 2-year contract vs. $4,818 for Next.
 
how are people lining up for the iPhone at the Apple Stores located in the malls? are they lining up at the entrance nearest the store?
 
ugcop said:
Of course I take responsibility for staying up all night. I blame APPLE for the poor experience. It comes from their insistence that everybody come on line at the same time. If you can't build a better system and they haven't then roll the product out at a manageable speed so that your system can function properly.
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Waaaaaaaaaa!
 
Would be cool to know my # as I got my preorder in at 11:58PM PT on Sept. 11th for the space gray 64gb through AT&T!
 
"Apple is doomed".

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Every year the same complaints.

"Apple is creating "artificial" demand" is a big one I see. WTF would Apple want artificial demand when those can be actual sales numbers?? I would rather have actual devices being sold than to fake the funk.

It's like saying, all 10 of "x" item are sold out. I rather sell 100 of "x" item and show the world that there is a REAL demand for my product. And Apple DOES have a real demand for their iPhones, so I highly doubt they need to create any artificial demand.

As for the servers crashing and what not, you have AT LEAST 9 million people all trying to put in their order at the same time, if we are to go by Apple's statement that demand is even bigger than last year. I don't care who you are, that many MILLIONS of users trying to access the same thing is akin to a Denial of Service attack in a way.

I purchase tickets to music festivals such as Coachella, Electric Daisy Carnival, Tomorrowland, TomorrowWorld, and those festivals have attendance of about 100-150k people per day, and whenever tickets are released, it's the same thing, servers crash, tickets sell out sometimes in a matter of minutes. iPhone sales are a magnitude of times bigger than a music festival, so don't be surprised when there are hiccups. I don't think anyone else sells that much of ANYTHING in one day.
 
Yes, its is incredible to see the Apple Store still down at 3AM PT.

It's also incredible that no other manufacture could get their stuff in either.. :)

A first for Apple... hopefully, not the last.
 
All these people griping about the store being down for 2.5 hours, don't know much about web site traffic loading.
Apple opened up the iOS App Store for upgrades, then Australia, NZ, HK, Parts of EU then GB and the rest of the EU then by 2:30 AM US & Canada.
All done over a 2.5 hour period. NOT all at once. That would have been a disaster.
The traffic was well handled I placed and order on Apple.com at about 2:35 AM PST web site load times were excellent.
It was actually smart to do it like that as EU was morning and North America was sleeping and mostly ordered in the morning.
 
Does popularity equal success? Mediocrity sells. Quality is inherently exclusive.
 
So you are saying to hate on the popular product (Apple) and root for the underdog? That is some twisted mind logic. We all fall from grace at one point or another. If you want to buy something, then buy it. Don't blame your peer pressure for making you do it. Plus generalized statements about how peer pressure is making people buy apples products is very misinformed.


isoft7 said:
How dare I do anything but suck Apples e-dick around here? Right? Lets just be honest... that's what you're trying to say.

Read what I wrote, please... I said I am SURE they're selling well, but, year after year, release after release, Apple does these same sorts of press releases. "WERE SHOCKED WITH THE SALES!!! THEYRE AMAZING!!! RECORDS ARE BEING SMASHED!!!"

...but yet, they never release actual numbers. If these figures are ALWAYS so astronomical, why don't they just give out numbers?

Don't even try to give me that "Then Samsung will know!" ********, because if Samsung wants to know, they will know. They're a huge company with friends in very high places.

The fact remains, Apple knows a big part of driving sales is fooling consumers into thinking everyone else is also buying their products. The old "Keeping up with the Jones'" social commentary. Peer pressure drives a great deal of Apples sales.

Why are so many buying the Plus before even holding one? Why are so many buying these huge phones after years of complaining about large phones?

Simple... peer pressure. It's important to the Apple community that you always have the "best", the "newest" and the "top of the line". Form over function every time.
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But they did last year, just a week after. Says how many sold the first weekend (3 days)

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/201...e-Sales-Top-Nine-Million-Sets-New-Record.html

and the year before.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/09/24iPhone-5-First-Weekend-Sales-Top-Five-Million.html

and the year before that.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/10/17iPhone-4S-First-Weekend-Sales-Top-Four-Million.html


isoft7 said:
How dare I do anything but suck Apples e-dick around here? Right? Lets just be honest... that's what you're trying to say.

Read what I wrote, please... I said I am SURE they're selling well, but, year after year, release after release, Apple does these same sorts of press releases. "WERE SHOCKED WITH THE SALES!!! THEYRE AMAZING!!! RECORDS ARE BEING SMASHED!!!"

...but yet, they never release actual numbers. If these figures are ALWAYS so astronomical, why don't they just give out numbers?

Don't even try to give me that "Then Samsung will know!" ********, because if Samsung wants to know, they will know. They're a huge company with friends in very high places.

The fact remains, Apple knows a big part of driving sales is fooling consumers into thinking everyone else is also buying their products. The old "Keeping up with the Jones'" social commentary. Peer pressure drives a great deal of Apples sales.

Why are so many buying the Plus before even holding one? Why are so many buying these huge phones after years of complaining about large phones?

Simple... peer pressure. It's important to the Apple community that you always have the "best", the "newest" and the "top of the line". Form over function every time.
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psac said:
Hopefully good for my Apple stock. I got my 128 GB iPhone 6 pre-ordered from AT&T (premier customer, renewed a 2 year contract) at around 8am ET with no hassle. I hear some other people had problems. ;) :D
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I was able to get on to att.com 7 minutes before the store was to open, 2:53 AM EDT! I could have ordered 3 minutes later, but it was showing shipping of 14-21 days for the iPhone 6 Plus model. So I waited 16 minutes for the apple store to open up, it never did (until 2:45 hours later), so I pre ordered from AT&T. I got their text that my order went though an I should expect a shipping date of NOVEMBER 9-27th! And that was ordering 16 minutes after the store was to open!

So I hope the fact that you ordered the 6 and not 6 Plus as late as 8 AM EDT, you won't have to wait next year for your iPhone 6!

I ended up ordering another iPhone 6 Plus three hours later at the Apple store for only 7-10 shipping days. And it went through later yesterday! I succeeded the order and was already on the phone with AT&T and they were able to cancel my November delivery! So now I'll get my iPhone in 2 weeks instead of 2 months.

Perhaps you can still, even a day later, get a quicker shipping date through Apple than the November-January shipping dates through AT&T?
 
The apple store did open I ordered from there at 310 AM ET

I had to hit the back button and refresh a bit but I got it to go.
 
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