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So, ****ing developers can't develop or wait a few weeks to get the new X? Your email and browser don't work on your old phone, or what? Haven't you lived your whole life without an iPhone X? What's the big deal?

Unit testing, dude. The form factor changed. All I have to work with is an emulator in Xcode. Grow up.
 
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I still don't know I bother buying these products anymore. Seriously!! I purchased on the pre order a T-Mobile, Full Price Silver iPhone X 64GB, being delivered between the 17th-24th. Yesterday I changed the shipping address to someone else's house in my family (nearby address, BTW), because I won't be able to be home to sign it when UPS arrives. For my surprise, they changed the delivery dates to 20th-27th. When I tried to go back to previous address, the dates didn't improve, but stayed the same. Called apple and now I'm waiting for the supervisor's call (let's wait and see). Couldn't be more upset and made that sure to a guy called Charles yesterday. The agent told me everyone else's getting their phones before previously estimated (I almost mentioned only Upgrade Program iPhones seem to be having this benefit). LET'S WAIT AND SEE.
 
So, ****ing developers can't develop or wait a few weeks to get the new X? Your email and browser don't work on your old phone, or what? Haven't you lived your whole life without an iPhone X? What's the big deal?
You aren't asking for sympathy but you gotta know it sounds like you're mad at Apple because you made a strategic error. And no, afaik, preorders have never been designated to sell out before local retail receives stock.
Perhaps, just hear me out, it's time to exercise some impulse control... and perspective. It's just a phone. You'll survive. You're why on earth question... rhetorical right?:D
Thx for offering the definite answer in the quest for pre-order functionality.
 
This kind of logistical nonsense is making my inner Apple loyalist die.

Why on earth would anyone in their right mind ever stay up until midnight the night of a pre-order, struggle to get the damn thing to work, finally make a purchase at 12:06am and then get a 2-3 week delivery window... when anyone could walk into a store and just pick one up?

Aren't preorders supposed to sell out all available stock of an item before local retail receives any of them? I don't understand this siloing of quantities for specific sale. All this does is cause people like me to get burned.

Even more infuriating is that I'm a ****ing developer and I see kids holding iPhone X's on the trains I ride to work. I don't have the device I ordered but kids do. It goes to show you how much animoji and emoticon touch bars are Apple's core now. I had an equally terrible experience buying my watch series 3 edition white ceramic.

Perhaps it's time to listen to the other tribes on what they've been saying about Android and the Surface products.

It's because Apple has become waaay too mainstream now. Apple has always been a premium brand, it got mainstream, now everyone is crying every year like "Apple is too expensive! Blah blah cry cry". It's not a right to be able to buy Apple products or any premium products for that matter.

It would be ridiculous to cry on the internet over how expensive Porsche and Ferrari and Lamborghini etc are, but somehow for some people this whining is justified if its about Apple smh.

Apple has been screwing over Mac users for a few years now, because they make so much more money on iPhones nowadays it's ridiculous. Do you remember Apple being a computer brand? Pepperidge farm remembers.... They're focusing on kids and the asian market because there is a lot of growth, they should be making products for professionals (or at least PRO products, their own naming).
 
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