Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

iPhone X Shipping Estimates Improve to 3-4 Weeks in the United States and Canada

OMG !!! people who were skeptical about supply shortages TAKE that ! ..... wait...

shock horror..... rinse and repeat scenario under Cooks Apple, supply shortage followed by quicker than expected deliveries ....

Enjoy your iPhones tomorrow , others, you will get them sooner .... the line outside the nightclub does not indicate the people inside ... hint hint
 
  • Like
Reactions: deivydas, Oblivious.Robot, aylk and 1 other person
My date has been put forward to the 18th Nov from 3rd Dec in the UK - Still not impressed with the ordering as I was online at 08:01 and the UK store was not available for orders until 08:09 and my mail was timestamped 08:16 - Apple really should have done better than this.
 
  • Like
Reactions: rcipriano, mattysmith118 and HardRain
Makes me wonder if the production woes weren't as bad as they were being reported, or if sales weren't as high as expected (or a combination of both). It seemed like the iPhone 7/7P supplies were constrained much longer after initial release.
I'm thinking about picking up a sim-free version once they release, but that $1150 price tag is still something I'm having a hard time with ($1350 after Apple Care). I guess once the in-depth reviews start coming out, I can make a more informed decision. I'm still on the fence at this point.
 
  • Like
Reactions: aylk, willnpc, ToroidalZeus and 1 other person
Apple is doing great with production now and handling the demand (or the demand isn't really all its cracked up to be).
 
  • Like
Reactions: aylk
mcfrazieriv said:
Not me. I’m still 2-3 weeks out. Yay for “preorders”.
Click to expand...

Yeah Apple really stuffed up with that. I ordered as soon as the App went live and got the 2-3 week ships, no change still.

For a company as big as Apple, their pre-order was pathetically amateur.
[doublepost=1509668902][/doublepost]
Jbusick7944 said:
Stupid Ming. Made it sound like no one would get a phone until March. Never, never again will I believe the production problem forecasts on future launches.
Click to expand...

Let it be a lesson to us all. Also blame Macrumors, they kept 'promoting' that story, over and over again. It was BS all along.
 
  • Like
Reactions: willnpc, redbeard331 and Jbusick7944
Jbusick7944 said:
Stupid Ming. Made it sound like no one would get a phone until March. Never, never again will I believe the production problem forecasts on future launches.
Click to expand...

Why does it matter though? Did you only want the phone because it was going to be so in demand?

Fact is if you wanted one launch day you had to preorder within minutes.
 
xero9 said:
Why does it matter though? Did you only want the phone because it was going to be so in demand?

Fact is if you wanted one launch day you had to preorder within minutes.
Click to expand...
I have one coming tomorrow. So I don't care as it relates to my having a phone or not. I just don't like being BS'd for months and months from "experts."
 
Meanwhile MY pre-order which was attempted at 101AM MST and couldn't get placed until 108AM because the website refused to load is still delivering 17 Nov-24 Nov. #picardrikerdoublefacepalm

Seriously, this pre-order is just as bad as the iPhone 4 one was.
 
  • Like
Reactions: rcipriano
joeblow7777 said:
Remember all the, "No one is getting the X in 2017!" talk? People really bought into the hype.
Click to expand...
Literally no one said that. Everyone knew the first few million preorders would get release day shipping, and the rest would be pushed back by weeks.
 
willnpc said:
Its because there have been many reporting that they canceled their orders. there were reports saying it will be hard to get before for the first few months of 2018...So much for that lol, even Ebay scalpers are not doing as well as predicted, its not that good of a device...Sorry Apple :(
Click to expand...

Right. In no way this may be due to Apple improving th supply chain as they have said.
 
  • Like
Reactions: zooby
My order got bumped from Dec. 11-18 to Dec. 1-8.

I'm about to place a new order, since now new orders are getting 3 to 4 weeks delivery, wich seems shorter than the dates my old order got, keep both orders and cancel one as soon as the other one gets charged... opinions?
 
unobtainium said:
Literally no one said that. Everyone knew the first few million preorders would get release day shipping, and the rest would be pushed back by weeks.
Click to expand...

Oh yes, people said that. Most didn't mean it literally, but lots of people said, and believed, that if you didn't preorder in the first 15 minutes receiving the phone in 2017 would be unlikely.
It all went along with the reports that Apple was only producing 10 thousand units a day. Seriously, people believed this stuff!
[doublepost=1509669880][/doublepost]
JPack said:
Demand was never as high as some people predicted. Simple fact: it's a $999 phone.

Some posters were expecting the X to be a supercycle phone, matching if not exceeding the iPhone 6 launch. Simply silly predictions.
Click to expand...

None of us have the data to know if this is happening because of overestimated supply or underestimated demand. It's silly to declare either as fact based on assumptions and personal opinions and guesses.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Duane Martin and i.mac
xero9 said:
Why does it matter though? Did you only want the phone because it was going to be so in demand?

Fact is if you wanted one launch day you had to preorder within minutes.
Click to expand...

I try to access the Apple Store website on pre order and it open after 15 minutes, only people in the USA was able to access at open time.

The delivery time I got was 2-3 weeks ( Nov 17 - Nov 24 )

I also order 2 more phones after my first order from other country and they have a delivery date from 23 to 30 Nov. I don't understand why if the delivery times have improve my order still is the same in the 2 orders.

Because of this I have already cancelled the second order because it will be easier getting the iPhone in the Apple Store than waiting weeks.

I have buy all the iPhones and in all this years I never see that the Apple Store opens after some minutes from the exact time of the pre order. Also it was unfair to open access to the USA first.

This time the pre order was a mess, Apple needs to check what was the issue and never again do the same to their customers.
 
joeblow7777 said:
None of us have the data to know if this is happening because of overestimated supply or underestimated demand. It's silly to declare either as fact based on assumptions and personal opinions and guesses.
Click to expand...

The data is already flowing out, in the form of credit card transaction data from China.

“Price appears to be a major constraint on iPhone X demand, particularly in China,” Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi said in a recent report that showed three-quarters of Chinese respondents were excited by the upcoming launch, but only a quarter said they planned to buy one.

Some Chinese re-sellers, however, said they already canceled pre-orders for the iPhone X, concerned there wouldn’t be enough of a supply bottleneck to allow them to charge a steep premium - despite some worries about long waits.

“I saw many friends were posting pictures of themselves successfully ordering the iPhone X, so I canceled mine,” said Tony Tong, 29, a product manager at a tech firm in Beijing, who said he had ordered four phones in the hope of re-selling them for a profit. “The environment is bad for scalpers.”
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back