Yep, me. Sadly... geez what a sad existence... I'll be waking up every two hours on an alarm and refresh the store. Great.
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Likelihood we will get to pre-order the WHITE iPhone 4 TOMORROW?
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Yep, me. Sadly... geez what a sad existence... I'll be waking up every two hours on an alarm and refresh the store. Great.
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
I don't think it will be a pre order like you think, it will be just an order. That being said I wouldn't imagine them being available for order until next week at the soonest.
I don't think so. Then the people who don't have Apple Stores near them would be 100% SOL.
Sorry but I am so pissed that there is even a need for a thread like this. Apple should have told us an exact date last Friday, preorder or not, that the white version will be available. Imagine if this were a book launch of large magnitude like Harry Potter was. Part I of Deathly Hallows will be out June 24. Due to manufacturing difficulties, Part II will be available in the second half of July. Two weeks left in July and no confirmed date, just "late July." Imagine the outrage from that scenario. Yet here we are, speculating about something we have every right to already know about.
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.
BL.
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.
Exactly right. For some, that is considered a pre-order, buts just a plain'ol' order IMO.
My local AT&T store told me (grain of salt taken) that I wouldn't be able to order a white iPhone in a store (direct fulfillment) until they had ran out of stock (post July 30th).....I also called apple to ask the same question....I was told by an apple sales associate ( grain of salt taken) that I would not be able to order a white iPhone until the 30th of July....so me and my wife will be patiently awaiting the crack of dawn; of the 30th of July to roll around.....So I'm gonna say the likely hood of a pre-order for the white iPhone is slim...
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!
If the phones are shipping July 30th then at some point prior to that there must be a pre-order - at least 3-days prior. Could be next Tuesday, but like all, will check later.
The fact that Steve didn't say anything about pre-orders for the white at the press conference worries me. I think they'll more than likely just show up in stores and on the online store. I can't wait to get mine!
Actually, don't. Apple will be too concentrated on their 3rd Quarter Financial Results conference call, set for 7/20. Unless they did back to back to back announcements, no pre-order is going to happen.
BL.
Still holding out hope for 10-11 AM EST launch. Apple Store goes down and comes back up with the white iPhone
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
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
Well, historically, Tuesdays have been the day Apple would put new things in the store. So if not today then my hopes are definitely going down for pre-orders to happen at all.