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Furthermore, how long has Apple and the carriers -- certainly AT&T -- been doing this? If next year is the 10th anniversary for the iPhone, that's ten years. While I love Apple devices and I really like AT&T's ordering process, you'd think that the actual DevOps behind the sites would get a process down by now?

Personally, I don't understand why AT&T, Apple and/or whomever don't use Amazon Web Services (AWS) or similar scaling architecture to scale up as the traffic gets crazier, then scale back down as the traffic simmers down. That's the whole point of renting space at data centers, and if it's not Amazon, I know there are other vendors that provide rentable machines/capacity on their data centers.

I have never understood why that doesn't happen. Then again, maybe it's not a site issue, per se; it could be a billing systems issue or some such. In telecom, it's called "busy hour," the theory that states that you should provision how much capacity you need to reasonably handle the busiest time of your business -- without a meltdown.

Well, there are lots of pieces to the puzzle. Place an order on Apple's website, and it has to handshake with AT&T or one of the other carriers to confirm your eligibility and contractual details. So on and so forth. They could all go nuts and put in 10,000 x the normal required capacity on each part of the system to handle these once-a-year peaks, and spend a ton of money doing it, but they won't. They will go part way and call it good enough. They will figure "well, we only have enough stock for 5% of the initial orders anyway, so why make it possible for even more orders to flood in?"
 
10pm Central is the cutoff for FedEx in Dallas. Worst case, shipment will hit Memphis at 12:06am and then be en route to you after that. I am sure some (or all) of us will be watching the various flight tracking websites tonight.

Here are links to the three flights scheduled tonight from DFW to Memphis:

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/FDX1280/history/20160916/0156Z/KDFW/KMEM 8:57 departure
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/FDX1201/history/20160916/0238Z/KDFW/KMEM 9:38 departure
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/FDX1365/history/20160916/0401Z/KDFW/KMEM 11:01 departure

Thanks for the info, man. Really helpful. I'll be lurking, and hoping for all of you
 
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You seriously need to calm down. Even your avatar needs to calm down.
lol lad
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Might want to check other threads plenty of 256, including plus jet black, have moved to preparing to ship or shipped from Apple. Just not from AT&T yet

im sure we arent talking about threads lmao , we are talking about att lad
 
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That makes them just sound EVEN MORE incompetent that everything was down on the biggest sales day of the year.

Same reason my damn order didnt finally go through until 4:29am EST; their damn upgrade portal took almost 1.5 hours of erroring out to check out.

ATT.com lost my future orders already. First and only time ever ordering anything from their site.
I ordered on the next plan via trade in and mine went thru at 3:01 est ..my phone still hasn't shipped cause att sucks they also screwed up my next plan...I swore I selected the 12 month upgrade with trade in plan.... but it says 18 month trade in so I called first rep said she could fix it but the systems were down so call back later .... called back next rep said they don't offer 12 month trade in upgrades ...told her all my other phones have been on a 12 month uprade and her response was oh yeah we use to do that... no she just was a damn idiot ... they clearly are just messing up everything possible on these preorders
 
Did anyone in Florida get their phone shipped?

I was just wondering the same thing lol. I'm in Central Florida. But no updates though.

7P Gold 256GB; Ordered at 2:58am 09/09/2016;
shipping dates: 09/23-09/30

Didn't get my pre-order in 2014 until 09/23 the Tuesday after launch and I pre-ordered at 3:11am 09/12/2014(pre-order day)...AT&T is doing it again smh
 
I ordered on the next plan via trade in and mine went thru at 3:01 est ..my phone still hasn't shipped cause att sucks they also screwed up my next plan...I swore I selected the 12 month upgrade with trade in plan.... but it says 18 month trade in so I called first rep said she could fix it but the systems were down so call back later .... called back next rep said they don't offer 12 month trade in upgrades ...told her all my other phones have been on a 12 month uprade and her response was oh yeah we use to do that... no she just was a damn idiot ... they clearly are just messing up everything possible on these preorders
Same thing for me, I'm seeing 18 even though I very clearly chose the 12 plan instead of 18. I figured I'd just deal with that once the phone ships, but maybe that would be a mistake? Who the hell knows anymore.
 
Lol nah I live in Texas

party pooper lol , shoulda played along.

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I'm just done with this. This is messed up. Still pending, and when I tried to order online when it opened up, there was an issue. I go in, first thing, they take an hour to fix the issue. I ordered around 11am. Barely any of you ordered that late. I'm assed out... #itapout
 
Hey Guys,

I know I literally just signed up for this site, but that was the only way I could update everyone on my progress. I was able to preorder a Silver 7+ 128GB by 3:00am (EST) on the 9th but was given a Sep 23 - Sep 30 shipment date. Up until maybe an hour ago, my order status said "Preparing for Shipment" but when I used the *6737# method, I was told that my order was backordered.

I literally JUST got an email saying my shipment is on it's way and I can expect it by tomorrow (9/16) via FedEx. I live on the East Coast. For all those with shipping dates later than tomorrow, it seems like there's still hope.

My order page has been updated to say shipping as well and FedEx says my package has been picked up from Memphis, TN
How long was it on backorder?
 
This pisses me the F*CK off, why have a preorder event, and have it at 3AM on the east coast, and those who stayed up that late not get their phones on launch day, while others who ordered at 8AM or later on Friday are getting theirs tomorrow. ATT and Apple both messed up big time.

Tell me about it. I place three orders of iPhone 7 matter black 128 GB. One on 9/9 7 am, one one 9/9 10 pm and one yesterday. Two are for my family members and one is for me (the earliest one). I have received tracking info on all but the one ordered at 7 am...this is infuriating
 
This is my first iPhone. What if when it gets here tomorrow, I end up not even liking it lol. I don't have any other options since the Note 7s have been recalled.
 
I was just wondering the same thing lol. I'm in Central Florida. But no updates though.

7P Gold 256GB; Ordered at 2:58am 09/09/2016;
shipping dates: 09/23-09/30

Didn't get my pre-order in 2014 until 09/23 the Tuesday after launch and I pre-ordered at 3:11am 09/12/2014(pre-order day)...AT&T is doing it again smh

I am a floridian. Posted above. No movement on iPhone 7+ same window. Ordered in the morning.
 
What is the latest you can get notified of delivery for tomorrow? Tracking, updated status on AT&T.com, or using *6737#, etc. Thanks.
 
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