Will anyone be getting up early...say 4am... to check the store?
Yep, me. Sadly... geez what a sad existence... I'll be waking up every two hours on an alarm and refresh the store. Great.
Will anyone be getting up early...say 4am... to check the store?
i don't think so. with limited quantity, there'll be no pre-order as they(att or apple) don't want to break their online system again![]()
Anyone thinking that due to the limited supply that Apple will make these not available online and only through their B&M stores?
The iPhone 4 White is due to 'ship' at the end of the month. For this to work without a pre-order system is unlikely. Particularly given that Apple has already said that they (the white version) will be available in limited quantities.
That being said, if the pre-order system is in place like it was for the black and probably will be for the white - we should start to see this this week.
Tomorrow has been talked about on these forums as the earliest instance this could happen, and if so, this will probably take the shape of a 5.00am ET release like the black.
Has anyone else pegged tomorrow morning as a likely date/time for the pre-orders to start for the white? Or will it be Thursday? Or no pre-orders at all even?
How likely is that this time tomorrow we will all be complaining about the lack of availability of the white iPhone and how unstable the Apple Store was etc. lol?
You're assuming that 'ship' means 'ship to customers'. That may not be the case. They could mean 'ship to the stores', and still satisfy Job's statement on Friday. The closer it gets to after that 30 day window for those who ordered the Black iPhone, the less likely there will be a pre-order for the White phone.
Think about it this way. Pre-order for the Black phone was on 6/15 with a ship by date of 6/23. That's 8 days (6 business days, 7 days with US Mail). For them to have something similar, a pre-order would have to happen no later than 6/23 to make a ship date of 6/30. That would mean that an announcement would have to come no later than this Wednesday (allotting a day's prep time for their servers), plus ATT's servers. From today (and it's past EOB here in California), 1 day's lead time certainly wouldn't be enough for that type of announcement.
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You'd certainly think they'd make an announcement of some sort but they most likely won't. They don't view it like the iPad and iPad 3G, more like 32GB vs 64GB. If the 64 wasn't available at launch it'd probably just pop up in the store with a shipping time.
this is absolutely ridiculous.
**** you Apple, **** you Lens Technologies and **** you Steve Jobs.
this is absolutely ridiculous.
**** you Apple, **** you Lens Technologies and **** you Steve Jobs.
LOL - it's not looking too promising is it?
So is an earlier poster correct in that if it were to appear in the next couple of hours or so, we would have known by now as the site would be down?
I am still keeping the faith till at least 4AM EST lol!
Still holding out hope for 10-11 AM EST launch. Apple Store goes down and comes back up with the white iPhone![]()
I sure do hope so. Getting up at 4am only to be dissapointed is the worst. But I'm still hoping for the best. If not today then possibly tomorrow or Thursday at the latest![]()