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

serialiphoneuser said:
No way! Whoa! Totally didn't see that coming! The supply "magically" caught up to demand. Production must have been ramped up so hard!
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So all the other years when this didn't happen they must have just "forgotten" to add in the stock they were hiding? Such logic...
 
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.
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So the $87B aapl just guided for in Q1 will be driven by which phone exactly?
 
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FlyGuyDEN said:
You and me both even though I was attempting pre-order at 101am MST. Stupid Apple.com website.
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Oh yeah I was on the Apple store app at 2:50am Eastern time and didn’t get through til 3:10, after constantly reloading it on both iPhone and iPad. I want my date moved up!
 
JPack said:
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.”
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Stop posting this nonsense. 5.5 M preorders in 5 minutes in China.

AAPL just guided for $87b in revenue and that is iX.

Did you see this Q AAPL just put up with mostly 1 year old products? You underestimate this beast. People are going to buy the X in droves. There are estimates they sold 40m in preorders alone.

All the fake news about production issues are just that...
 
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To add to the pile, I got my order in 11 minutes after the Apple site opened. I couldn't get apple.com to do anything until 9 minutes after pre-orders started. I got Nov 17-24. As of now, that date still holds.

Hoping for a bump in ship.

People who have gotten your dates moved up? They're not all in the Apple Phone Upgrade program, are they? I have a few "non online" friends who have been bumped up, but they're all in the upgrade program.
 
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I somehow have fallen through the cracks in a positive way. Didn't order until 330 am Pacific time on the 27th and my order shipped today, i'm not in the upgrade program. Purchased through the AT&T Website. Hope everyones delivery dates keep getting updated.
 
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kerrikins said:
I'm actually more inclined to believe that either demand has been slower or Apple was fudging the truth when they denied sacrificing standards to improve order times. There was talk of production issues way back before any real hype started to build, so I don't think it was all talk.
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You realize all that "talk" was clickbait articles on the Internet. Please provide source article or PR release direct from Apple that addresses anything you take as fact.
 
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TrickyTreeRed said:
Perhaps Apple might be exaggerating about the demand for the device? Yes there was an initial rush when pre-orders went live, but many are waiting for the reviews to come out or will stick with what they have?
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Apple exaggerating the demand? Not likely.

Apple’s guidance for this quarter is for revenue of $84 to 87 billion. They’re expecting a huge, record breaking quarter for iPhone sales.
 
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jermwhl said:
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.
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Production rates may be ramping up as Apple most likely reduced the specs on the Dot Projector as was reported (and denied by Apple) last month. I'm looking forward to Face ID in the wild 3m from now. ;)
 
burgman said:
You realize all that "talk" was clickbait articles on the Internet. Please provide source article or PR release direct from Apple that addresses anything you take as fact.
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Because all the links and articles that laid out every single last detail of the iPhone X weeks in advance were just 'clickbait articles', right? As I said, there was zero reason for them to be saying back in June and July that there were production issues to 'build hype'. People will buy iPhones regardless of the scarcity argument, I've never understood this logic.
 
I went in to our local Sprint store late that afternoon for the first day of ordering for an unrelated item and they asked if I wanted to order the X.

I did inquire about the delivery and they said they are still operating on Nov 3 delivery. I was a bit surprised as there was no line no people milling about except for those outside playing Pokemon.

They told me to go ahead and do it as I can always look at it and then just cancel it but at least that way I could get it right away. Hard to justify that much money for a phone though, but was tempting.
 
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My iPhone X 64/Silver updated 10 days less. It was Dec 11th and now it's Dec 1st, at the earliest.
 
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kerrikins said:
Because all the links and articles that laid out every single last detail of the iPhone X weeks in advance were just 'clickbait articles', right? As I said, there was zero reason for them to be saying back in June and July that there were production issues to 'build hype'. People will buy iPhones regardless of the scarcity argument, I've never understood this logic.
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FUD articles about iPhone production rates or troubles are mostly clickbait. Every year we see the same thing, and the new iPhone is often backordered 3-6 weeks at launch. Nothing out of the ordinary this year at all. If anything, more availability this year than ever before—launching in 55 countries with only 3-4 week backorder on the most popular model. iPhone 8 is already shipping from inventory.

Apple’s really good at this iPhone thing, and anyone who predicts otherwise, especially based on a few supply chain reports—which Apple has specifically warned against trying to derive meaning from—does so without regard to Apple’s long history of success.

The 2018 iPhones are ready to lock soon and Apple will spend the next 10 months making sure we’ll have a similar availability experience next year. And there will be hundreds of articles published detailing all the production issues for those phones. Some of us will grin and roll our eyes, and some will believe every negative report and will gloom and doom daily, from May through September.
 
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Apple had their poop in a group (you know, you can make anything G rated).

This is looking like an awesome launch, although sad to hear about the 300 stolen, traceable devices. :rolleyes:
 
Apple Corps said:
WTH are you complaining about - I ordered on the 27th and am still 5 weeks out - full cash purchase on 256 Verizon version :)
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Complaining :) I did the same. I was actually up at 1 am MST to order mine. Forgot PIN number. Couldn't reset without waking wife ... waisted time staying up :X
 
drunifex said:
Nope mine hasn't changed still first week of december. I was on the website at minute 1 and it took 15 minutes for the site to open up. I ended up doing my order about 20 minutes after opening. So now if i order one today I get a better shipping estimate to the one I got 20 minutes into preorder. Im so dead sick of this whole process. Last time i join this stupid circus with Apple.
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Just cancel your order, you might anyway once reviews start coming out
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effort said:
:( there goes my resale value
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This is the main reason why shipping times have been pushed up, lots of people hoping to make money thought there was going to be a several month wait, it’s only four weeks so they canceled their orders
 
I'm just wondering about some things...

After the initial rush tomorrow... how often do new iPhones get shipped to Apple Stores? Is it once a day... or a few times a week?

I know we see people line up that first day... but do people keep lining up days afterwards?

And although I don't plan on buying an iPhone X tomorrow... will they be on display in Apple Stores tomorrow? I might go visit them. :p
 
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