Your kids would think you were derranged. It's just another mass hyped consumer item, which will be in landfill within a decade. Big whoop. LOL.
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iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Go On Sale in U.S. and Canada to Huge Lines
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Your kids would think you were derranged. It's just another mass hyped consumer item, which will be in landfill within a decade. Big whoop. LOL.
(quoting you again but i had an 'oh, right, maybe that's what they meant' moment)
the line snakes back&forth 20 times on one block (the 5th ave store has space for it.. it's not just a sidewalk in front) ?
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If you're getting more for your money then you aren't paying a premium, you're just paying more for more.
I just came from the Mall of America Apple Store which is located directly across from the Microsoft Store. The Apple Store was very crowded with a long line out front. The Microsoft Store had about 10 customers milling about inside. There were three Microsoft employees standing side-by-side at the front window staring outside at the Apple Store like they were trapped in an aquarium.
I looked at the 6 and the 6 Plus. I'm not a fan of the 6 Plus. It's a 6 for me.
I looked at the 6 and the 6 Plus. I'm not a fan of the 6 Plus. It's a 6 for me.
Mall of Georgia Experience
This morning, the store I was at didn't do anything with the reserving of phones for those of us waiting in line - not just no paper cards, no reserving at all. No one past the first couple of folks knew if standing in line was going to do any good at all. At least if they did the reservation thing like they promised, we would know, could reserve a phone and come back after the line died down, or just commiserate with the others left out of the opening day fun. After 12 hours I was next in line only to be told they were out of all Verizon phones and if I wanted to come back tomorrow I could stand in line all over again. Needless to say, I've attended my last Apple Launch. Apple, you disappointed me.
This morning, the store I was at didn't do anything with the reserving of phones for those of us waiting in line - not just no paper cards, no reserving at all. No one past the first couple of folks knew if standing in line was going to do any good at all. At least if they did the reservation thing like they promised, we would know, could reserve a phone and come back after the line died down, or just commiserate with the others left out of the opening day fun. After 12 hours I was next in line only to be told they were out of all Verizon phones and if I wanted to come back tomorrow I could stand in line all over again. Needless to say, I've attended my last Apple Launch. Apple, you disappointed me.
I picked up two iPhone 6 phones today at the AT&T store in Frackville, PA. I got to the store at 7:15am today and I was only #7 in line. The first 3 people got in line last night at 8pm.
The store only had 4 iPhone 6 Plus models in stock and they sold to the first 4 people in line. There was only 10 people in line when the store opened at 8am today and some people went home early when they heard the 6 Plus models were already sold out.
The store only had 4 iPhone 6 Plus models in stock and they sold to the first 4 people in line. There was only 10 people in line when the store opened at 8am today and some people went home early when they heard the 6 Plus models were already sold out.
I waited in line today for 45 mins. and I was only #7 in line. I got two iPhone 6 models.
On the way home from dinner I noticed a campground on Colorado Blvd in Pasadena. Beach chairs, cheap blankets, huge iceboxes full of fat snacks washed down with sodas all night long, all for a cellphone ?!? I was curious, all them hipsters, now much like homeless people waiting as if someone paid them but with too much time and money for a phone, just where did urinate and defecate at night before the store opened? It is clash of civilized technology with savage-like acquisition.
What a crap launch!
For the sixth year in a row my girlfriend and I went out on launch day morning to Destiny USA mall to wait in line. For the first year we left empty handed. It wasn't for lack of trying as for the first time we split up, she waited in the Apple Store line, I in the AT&T line. She was around 60th in the Apple Store line out of at least 400, and I was 13th in the AT&T line. Neither of us could score a Plus.
It's just a phone so I'm not overly upset by the fact I couldn't get one, but I don't like how the situation was handled by Apple and AT&T. What really has torqued us and many others today is that the AT&T store never got any Plusses outside of the 16GB model. Many of us in line repeatedly asked AT&T staff about availability but they refused to answer citing Apple policy. WTF! Apparently it is Apple's policy to not allow resellers to divulge ANY inventory details. This amounts to bait-and-switch as several of us were waiting to purchase a product which was not even available, but because of Apple rules, the reseller, AT&T in this case couldn't even tell us.
Those in the Apple Store line didn't fare much better. Despite waiting since around 5 am this morning around 60th in line, my girlfriend wasn't visited by an Apple staff person offering a reservation until around 8:15, at which point she was told she was SOL if she wanted a plus.
I guess Apple really values the media circus over their customers. This time it is going to backfire on them. I know I've lost a great deal of respect for Apple today and I am sure I'm not the only one.
For the sixth year in a row my girlfriend and I went out on launch day morning to Destiny USA mall to wait in line. For the first year we left empty handed. It wasn't for lack of trying as for the first time we split up, she waited in the Apple Store line, I in the AT&T line. She was around 60th in the Apple Store line out of at least 400, and I was 13th in the AT&T line. Neither of us could score a Plus.
It's just a phone so I'm not overly upset by the fact I couldn't get one, but I don't like how the situation was handled by Apple and AT&T. What really has torqued us and many others today is that the AT&T store never got any Plusses outside of the 16GB model. Many of us in line repeatedly asked AT&T staff about availability but they refused to answer citing Apple policy. WTF! Apparently it is Apple's policy to not allow resellers to divulge ANY inventory details. This amounts to bait-and-switch as several of us were waiting to purchase a product which was not even available, but because of Apple rules, the reseller, AT&T in this case couldn't even tell us.
Those in the Apple Store line didn't fare much better. Despite waiting since around 5 am this morning around 60th in line, my girlfriend wasn't visited by an Apple staff person offering a reservation until around 8:15, at which point she was told she was SOL if she wanted a plus.
I guess Apple really values the media circus over their customers. This time it is going to backfire on them. I know I've lost a great deal of respect for Apple today and I am sure I'm not the only one.
I can only speak for myself, but perhaps you forgot that Apple's servers were bombarded from 12am until almost 3am Pacific time. I tried staying up but I could only last so long (I lasted until about 1:45am) before giving up. Unfortunately I have a job (I'm an adjunct professor, if I don't show up, I don't get paid) and had to be up early in the morning.
I did try for a phone today, but the store nearest my campus had 3,500+ people in line before 8am! So, I will keep looking for inventory each day.
Went on launch day. Queued for hours (Apple store Covent Garden).
Fights broke out. Security completely lost control of the situation. All this happened at about 4 in the morning. All for a phone. It was more like a Michael Jackson concert than a phone launch.
Didn't get the phone and didn't bother waiting till 8. I hear the 6+ was sold out even before the store opened.
Never queued for a phone before and will never queue for a phone ever again. I'll go back to waiting a month for the mad rush to die down and walk in off the street and pick the phone up. The reason I broke from that routine is because I wanted as much value for my old phone as possible (iPhone 5 64 GB) and the price would plummet after the iP 6/6+ release so I sold my phone before getting a new one and currently I have no phone.
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iPhone 6+ pre order ship date went from 19th/9 to 3-4 weeks in 20 minutes.
The chances of getting a unlocked 6+ launch day delivered to your door were almost non existent and that is why a lot of people (myself included) went to the Apple store on launch day to try and pick up the phone. Never again.
Fights broke out. Security completely lost control of the situation. All this happened at about 4 in the morning. All for a phone. It was more like a Michael Jackson concert than a phone launch.
Didn't get the phone and didn't bother waiting till 8. I hear the 6+ was sold out even before the store opened.
Never queued for a phone before and will never queue for a phone ever again. I'll go back to waiting a month for the mad rush to die down and walk in off the street and pick the phone up. The reason I broke from that routine is because I wanted as much value for my old phone as possible (iPhone 5 64 GB) and the price would plummet after the iP 6/6+ release so I sold my phone before getting a new one and currently I have no phone.
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iPhone 6+ pre order ship date went from 19th/9 to 3-4 weeks in 20 minutes.
The chances of getting a unlocked 6+ launch day delivered to your door were almost non existent and that is why a lot of people (myself included) went to the Apple store on launch day to try and pick up the phone. Never again.
Apple is pretty sure you will forget all this in a week or two when you really do get your hands on you 6+.
Except their reservation system that the cards are linked to went down before stores even opened in western Canada. No one knew if they'd be able to get the phone they wanted.
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You mean the pre-order website that came up three hours late in the early hours of the morning and had the 6 plus sell out of launch day stock almost immediately? That pre-order? A lot of people who lined up were people who were unable to successfully pre-order. Others simply like to line up, and there's nothing wrong with that. Certainly not evidence of "no life" as another poster mentioned.
If you have no phone now, you evidently are not in need of a communication device nor reliable and uninterrupted communication. You want the latest gadget.
The problem was that their tracking system said it was ready for pickup. People were upset that they were told one thing only for it not to be true. Companies should be held accountable for not delivering on their promises, and need to be prepared to handle anticipated surges in volume.