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iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max Shipping Estimates Extending Into October

Could have had the phone delivered at home as per usual on the 20th - however It appears I was late ordering my watch and delivery had slipped into mid-October unless I picked it up from an Apple Store - my nearest one being over an hour away.

So it's a day out next Friday to pick up both.
 
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TechRemarker said:
Having ordered every iPhone since the first, this is by far the smoothest order process ever. Store up by 8:02am, and when using the iPhone app (having pre-pre-ordered days before), only took clicking two buttons and was ordered. Incredible. Though of course cue the anti-apple folk who will say, that's because of a lack of demand. But then if dates start slipping they shift to a different tactic and say, oh they are intentionally delaying shipping to "fake demand" even though the numbers always show the high demand, and giving longer times would cause many to not order at all. Or if ordering process does have problems, then people will say with all that money how can they not nail down the pre-order process. Funny to watch. Or like how people complain charging speed not as fast as android, then Apple increases to that amount and then people say, oh well Android has had forever and or suddenly switch to saying people will burn through their battery capacity (even though before it was a pro when android only had). Gotta love it lol.
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Sadly, that pretty much sums things up here.
 
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Trying to pre order through Telstra in Australia and their site has crashed. May have to wait until tomorrow.
 
kaostheory777 said:
Been trying for an hour in Australia... Telstra's ordering system is completely destroyed. Seems to fail at the credit check screen (but they have now completely disabled the pre-order options). Unreal that they weren't prepared! This really shouldn't be an issue in 2024, did they not expect demand or something?!
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It was borked from 10pm which is really poor.
 
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dannys1 said:
Could have had the phone delivered at home as per usual on the 20th - however It appears I was late ordering my watch and delivery had slipped into mid-October unless I picked it up from an Apple Store - my nearest one being over an hour away.

So it's a day out next Friday to pick up both.
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That would make a cracking novel.
 
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citysnaps said:
Spot-on. Apple's path to to selling 600,000 iPhones per day, every day of the year, is to employ shady tactics and moves to piss off their customers.

Apparently for some people that's Business 101 for building customer loyalty and delight in your products, leading to 1 Billion active (and repeat) customers.
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Their response to Apple’s happy repeat customers is that they are all dumb—all how ever many millions/billion of them. They’ll think and say anything to maintain their reality distortion field.
 
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BelgianChoklit said:
A lot of these so called "delays" are pure marketing tricks. I recall last year colleagues of mine who got the 15 Pro / Pro Max and their shipping date was mid October and they all got theirs on launch day in the end...

The last time I recall the shipping delays actually being correct was with the iPhone X launch - which was unseen as I recall myself. I had ordered 3 iPhones X 256GB in the very first seconds so I got it on launch day, but a couple of seconds later shipping had slipped to mid-late December and even 2018.
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Sure Apple would rather you not order a phone becasue the dates are pushed out.
 
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JohnRckr said:
And for what?

Button that none needs
5 yo design
Slow charging speeds
Locked-in-ecosystem design
Mediocre cameras
Pro Max price tag
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I have a 5 y.o. 11 Pro, so...

- I would love to have a camera button
- Design has changed twice in the meantime. Screen is 0.5 inch larger.
- Charging speeds a lot better and now with magnets (so no manual positioning with difficulty)
- Battery 50% better... but even more because my battery health is at 78% (battery is 3 years old, not 5). My 11 is in desperate need for a battery update but Apple didn't want to do that since health was stuck at 81% for ages (while I didn't reach 17:00 on some important days).

You've forgotten what it was 5 years ago. I bet you bought one of those "useless" phones recently yourself?
 
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Orange Bat said:
I’ve read a lot of comments from iPhone 13 owners saying they won’t upgrade this year, especially Pro Max owners. this means people are now waiting up to 4 years to upgrade their phones in some instances. The Pro Max has such a large battery that it’s much easier to get by an extra year and really makes the Pro Max worth the extra expense in the long run. (I understand this is all anecdotal and doesn’t constitute hard evidence)
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Did you see it on TV too?
 
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CarlJ said:
You are looking at a very skewed sample - the people on MacRumors and the Apple/iPhone parts of Reddit are self-selected to be fairly hardcore, compared to the general public, and many have very recent iPhones, often last year's model. But the general public isn't like that. And there's tons of people out there with phones that are older. I don't think it's artificial. If anything, it may simply show a slight imbalance between the percentage mix that Apple predicted and what people actually want.
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There is absolutely no object in this world that could make me wake up at 5AM to preorder it, LOL!
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I live on the east coast so it’s 8am. I preorder my phone right as I was walking in my office
 
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Same, although the apple store app took another 10 minutes before it actually let me order. Says my 16 pro will be delivered mid september. It will be a nice upgrade to my iphone 11 !
 
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Skipping this iPhone after upgrading every year for 10 years with jump on demand.

Didn’t show up in their system, so going back to regular upgrades where the best deals are at, anyway. Switching every year got old.
 
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hangkous said:
I have a 5 y.o. 11 Pro, so...

- I would love to have a camera button
- Design has changed twice in the meantime. Screen is 0.5 inch larger.
- Charging speeds a lot better and now with magnets (so no manual positioning with difficulty)
- Battery 50% better... but even more because my battery health is at 78% (battery is 3 years old, not 5). My 11 is in desperate need for a battery update but Apple didn't want to do that since health was stuck at 81% for ages (while I didn't reach 17:00 on some important days).

You've forgotten what it was 5 years ago. I bet you bought one of those "useless" phones recently yourself?
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This and probably has a 15 and is trying to downplay other people from buying to prevent FOMO.
 
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Relax, there's no need to stress about this marketing tactic. Plenty of great phones are available. If you're using an iPhone 12 or newer, don't get caught up in the hype of a new iPhone launch - your current device is still excellent and can last a while longer. And if you're coming from Android, you're not missing out on much.
 
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16 Pro Max 1TB White - comes next Friday. In an out this year, was much better than previous years. Got in around 8.03 EST and out 8.05
 
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