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iPad Pro Pre Order?
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I'm quite skeptical of this since Apple haven't announced when it will actually be on sale yet!
You don't have to trust him/her. I've seen him/her multiple times on this forum make dubious claims about the availability while sounding as if s/he were absolutely certain, but s/he has absolutely no source to back them up.
You said that last week! Nobody except Apple themselves know when it will be available for pre-order or even if it will be up for pre-order it could just go on sale.
No, Apple would never put something on sale before all retail employees are up to speed on it.
Yes. (I'm a fan).
I just wish apple would just outright say look...its coming out on this day, you can pre order it on this day at this time...WHY IS THAT SO HARD OR SECRETE...
me personally i am already sold on the product and fully plan one way or another on getting one ASAP! THAT SAID, it makes a ton of sense for apple to realize that, and say to potential costumers the date and time when i can pre order and purchase one and not keep us in the dark!
Other companies say a product release window and usually a few weeks before that window begins they have dates and times available. Hell microsoft announced the date the surface would be available at retail and pre orders in there keynote. I really wish apple would do the same as people often need to budget accordingly to purchase there products. I mean yes we know the price of it, but people like me have to plan out ahead of time!
me personally i am already sold on the product and fully plan one way or another on getting one ASAP! THAT SAID, it makes a ton of sense for apple to realize that, and say to potential costumers the date and time when i can pre order and purchase one and not keep us in the dark!
Other companies say a product release window and usually a few weeks before that window begins they have dates and times available. Hell microsoft announced the date the surface would be available at retail and pre orders in there keynote. I really wish apple would do the same as people often need to budget accordingly to purchase there products. I mean yes we know the price of it, but people like me have to plan out ahead of time!
How did they screw up? I pre-ordered and got mine when they said I would. So did friends of mine and lots of other folks on the forums here.
Here is the verbiage from the original 9 to 5 Mac post.
"Apple plans to start selling the 12.9-inch iPad Pro on Wednesday, November 11th via both its physical retail and online stores, according to multiple sources."
To me this says no preorder.
"Apple plans to start selling the 12.9-inch iPad Pro on Wednesday, November 11th via both its physical retail and online stores, according to multiple sources."
To me this says no preorder.
I think we will get a pre-order later this week. I picked up an ATV4 easily in the store after launch day but I feel the iPad pro will be a little bit more
difficult and will probably order as soon as possible.
difficult and will probably order as soon as possible.
And then (like with the Apple TV) you will get your pre order, delivered, after it becomes available in the store. LOL
They really don't need to hype it much. We're all doing a fine job ourselves!
I actually think the opposite - pre-orders should be the standard and stores come later. having a trustworthy pre-order system is the best way to go, people double order because it's a horrible system they put in place..
I'm trying to think of the downside of this scenario. Let's say you pre-order several days in advance, then before your device arrives, it becomes available in-store. At that point, you buy it in the store and when the one your pre-ordered arrives a few days later, you return it (unopened) to the store.
Either way, you're covered, right?
This seems sort of definitive. The fact they say both retail and online sounds like more than a rumor.
But then again, BS grows on trees
UPDATE! FRONT PAGE!
Now to confuse matters, they are saying the 13th, but 'may' accept pre-orders earlier.
This is exactly the type of vague rumor I come here for.
Kudos
Or it was a typo. 11th is still the only rumor as of now, Cue did say only a couple more days whatever that means.
He said only a "few" more days, which to me means more than a couple, more like 3-5 days, which would get us close to Nov 11 again.
MacMall just updated their iPad Pro page with models and accepted my order today. (Don't get too excited – their estimated ship date was November 30, so I've no assurance they can even announce the release date yet. But that's still a development versus yesterday.)