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

[willnpc]

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.

There will be many used like new for sale soon, they might brandish them as “refurbished”, not only will they be problems because it’s a first generation device, I think a lot of people are really going to miss the home button
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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.
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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.

It’s called Macrumors lol
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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?

Bingo
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Mine only moved up a week

It will move up more, just give people a chance to return them

 

[Surfin3591]

So let me get this straight, if I order an iPhone X today, it will ship before my phone that I preordered at 3am (which still shows Dec 1-7 ship date).

What the hell is that about Apple?

 

[STOCK411]

So let me get this straight, if I order an iPhone X today, it will ship before my phone that I preordered at 3am (which still shows Dec 1-7 ship date).

What the hell is that about Apple?

It’s going to move up. Don’t worry

 

[larrylaffer]

They're not bricks. They're not going to be bricks.

You simply do a logic board swap, and now you can sell the device new. Authorized repair shops all over Asia buy legitimate logic boards for this purpose.

You get an iPhone X for free, pay a few hundred to swap the logic board out, and then sell it for $1000. It's easy money, and it's been going on for years.

 

[PJivan]

Bingo

Why you speak as if you have any clue, do you realise that regardless if you are right or wrong you are still just guessing? You don’t even have a vague idea of how supply chain and production works on this scale, Is it really that hard to be humble on the internet? Not trying to be mean or attack you, just a tough.

 

[pnoyblazed]

surprised to see no unlocked version for the X.. I just want the Qualcomm version

 

[Rockondevil]

So let me get this straight, if I order an iPhone X today, it will ship before my phone that I preordered at 3am (which still shows Dec 1-7 ship date).

What the hell is that about Apple?

I was just wondering the same myself. Currently looks like if I order another one it'll come at the same time if not sooner than the one I ordered literally 2 minutes after "pre-orders" started.

 

[Pman17]

Reselling seemed like too much of a risk. Apple has the sources and power to get the iPhones pumping out of China. They've done this for 10 years. On the other hand Google is a newb to these kinds of things with the ghosting Pixel 2.

 

[trunten]

This makes me quite happy that scalpers won’t get their pay day. Good to hear

 

[Mascots]

How exciting!

Hoping to get my phone prior to the 10th (ordered about 12 minutes after the gates opened), but we'll see

 

[BvizioN]

Remember all the, "No one is getting the X in 2017!" talk? People really bought into the hype.

That is just people talking **** in this forum as usual. I don't think anyone toke that seriously. I ordered mine not because of the hype but because I wanted one. Ordered 6 minutes after pre-orders were opened and the 3-3 weeks window has not improved ever since. Not that I am in a rush or something.

 

[DribbleCastle]

This makes me quite happy that scalpers won’t get their pay day. Good to hear

They might lose $50 per phone but there going to make money.

 

[BvizioN]

Demand was never as high as some people predicted. Simple fact: it's a $999 phone.

So how do you come to that conclusion? Yes, phone being $999 is a fact, we know that. Since when have the price bothered that much Apple costumers? Yes, they are unhappy about it, they complain about it but at the end they end up buying one.
Honestly, without concrete figures of devices sold is hard to speculate on anything. It could be that production issues did never existed for this one, it could be that demand was not high, or it could be both. Eventually I think we will find out.

 

[Madhava]

That is one cute Apple employee...

That was the first thought came to me when I saw the photo and was looking for this comment.

 

[cloudyo]

My worst case delivery date improved by one day, lol. Its still in the 2nd week of december.
If i ordered now i‘d probably get it sooner...

 

[thisandanickel]

I ordered soon after midnight on October 27. My delivery date hasn't changed and it's worse than if I ordered today.

 

[bumfluff]

so nov 10th got moved up, Dec group is moving up, and now new orders are moving up

everyone except the forgotten souls in the nov 17th-24th group

whoever is responsible is a savage and an idiot

 

[urbZZ]

Why do all these pictures show people buying 2 phones at once? Are they just trying to resell? This just makes no sense at the moment.

 

[shareef777]

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.

Yep, Apple’s brand power isn’t THAT strong. Hopefully this knocks them down a peg or two so that they realize they need to remain price competitive with their competitors.

 

[djcerla]

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.

Way off. A large portion of iPhone sales were already priced around the $1000 mark.

What’s “silly” is not taking into consideration Apple’s own guidance for Q1 2018, which is massively up YOY despite one less week of sales this year. And their guidance is consistently conservative.

 

[red_december]

Man, all these "reports" about iPhone X being in limited supply. There were about a thousand people who queued overnight at Apple Store here in Singapore. I woke up at 7 am and walked into a reseller shop in my neighborhood and managed to get one within an hour. Sheesh.

Cancelled my order from Apple which was supposed to arrive in 2 weeks.

 

[hbt15]

so nov 10th got moved up, Dec group is moving up, and now new orders are moving up

everyone except the forgotten souls in the nov 17th-24th group

whoever is responsible is a savage and an idiot

i'm in the 28/11-4/12 group here in australia. I pre-ordered within 10 minutes of it opening. I can go online to apple Australia now and have one quicker than my pre-order. WTF apple!

 

[nexusrule]

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.”

Have you ever heard the sentence «The plural of anecdote is not data»?

 

[phoni]

Supply and demand...

 

[Verita]

My order has moved back from mid-December to late November. Hurrah! Ordered four and a half hours late, as my son was born two hours before pre-orders came on and then medical crisis with my wife caused me to be somewhat distracted at the time!

They're in shops here in NZ for sale, but only on contract not bare.

Get your priorities right. Family can wait.