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iPhone 14 Pro Models Ordered From Apple Today Unlikely to Arrive in Time for Christmas in the US
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That's bad news... I couldn't stand the wait now that I simply couldn't return to using an earlier iPhone with a significantly worse camera than the 48 Mpixel 1x one in the 14P.
I wonder if this also applies to spare parts used to fix iPhones. That could be more of an issue. One could simply keep using an older smartphone until a new iPhone becomes available but it's a bit more hassle if your current iPhone can't be fixed due to shortages.
It’s called “under promising, over delivering”. Very common practice.
One of my employees too. He ordered Saturday from AT&T and received yesterday.
Good luck with that. Jingle all the Way springs to mind 🙂
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For a single Christmas present, $1000 is a lot.
I ordered a 1TB 14 Pro Max last week and picked it up the same day. Watch the stock and you can get them in store pickup.
just give the person a nice card showing the iPhone is ordered, a gift card to buy a case, and some nice chocolates.
Well, here in the U.S. there are TV advertisements for $70,000.00 pickup trucks as Christmas gifts. There’s even one where the husband buys TWO of them and the wife gets to pick the color she wants. Just saying.
Well yes, for the instant gratification crowd. NBC News aired a segment last night of young girls sobbing uncontrollably because they couldn’t get tickets to Taylor Swift’s upcoming concert tour. Ticketmaster’s website had crashed one male fan was demanding it be fixed IMMEDIATELY or else!
I guess if you're mostly alone in the world and only have one gift to buy for the only person in your life you care about then $1000 might be feasible, but people who have family and friends to gift for, $1000 is the TOTAL budget for many.
BTW, how do you like your Tesla?
This announcement is not for users but for the streets. When showing their quarterly results next quarter they'll be able to explain the drop in revenue and rightly point out that they warned everyone.
Chances are that you wouldn't get it this Friday or anytime soon, they'll have a handful of devices in stock and except for a few customers everyone else will get a notification that their order cannot be fulfilled. That's how it usually goes since these listings for popular hardware are often already outdated by the time you find them, the systems are too slow to keep track of remaining stock when demand is crazy. You can always try but unless you get lucky you'll end up talking to a support rep about when you can expect the refund. Best Buy is no different, they've already embarassed themselves earlier this year with the "Best Buy totaltech program" where you'd pay money to improve your chances of getting your hands on limited stock.
People who are looking for that iPhone now might not get it Dec 24th but then Apple is still estimating late December. I am sure whoever didn't preorder won't care about a couple extra days, right? Is Christmas going to be ruined if you tell your spouse they'll get a new iPhone the week after? I already feel bad enough knowing that our delivery couriers work SEVEN days a week for multiple weeks, with up to 12 hour shifts each day. They say they do it "voluntarily" and when asked why they say that if they don't work sat and sun, the workload on Monday would be so high they couldn't catch up.
So please keep in mind that there are people out there who take a big hit to their physical and mental health just so we can enjoy the holidays a bit more with some new tech.
Yea those elves are trained on the latest graphics processors and can pump out 1k etch a sketches a day, so I'm sure they could produce lots of iPhones by XMas
$1200 is my full Christmas budget for everyone lol
Exactly, we might not even spend that total for Christmas Gifts
They’re all available for delivery from Best Buy for tomorrow in every color/carrier/storage configuration. Best Buy’s stock status is accurate.
Unfortunately that's becoming the weekend norm for our family. A trip to Sam's Club/Costco/grocery store and a tank of gas. 😒
This is true no matter how much money people have. I am well off. I know a lot of people who are much, much, much more well off. No one is spending $1000 on a single Christmas present. What you spend on Christmas presents isn't intrinsically tied to how much money you have, in the sense that it doesn't just keep going up forever. I also think we're past the point where buying someone else an iPhone is a little weird. Amongst spouses, sure. Parents buying for young children, sure. Beyond that? People need to buy their own iPhones so they can manage their own plans. And Pro iPhones? Who is buying Pro iPhones for someone else?
The whole premise of this article is nonsense.
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