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Long Lines Forming for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Launch in Australia
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Nope, I'd be pissed off and change provider for a start. I'd then find the next best deal I could get and order through that carrier with the standard waiting time. Actually for the first time since the 3G I might even just move away from Apple and go and get something like a HTC One M8 instead, it's very good and Apple don't seem to have the advantages they used to in design and UI. The tie to iTunes and US-Centric features that are getting more common are becoming enough to have me being 50/50 about staying with Apple as it is.
It's not selling at all*!!!
*for those of you that serious, think about it for a few...
Breaking news. Apple has currently sold NONE of its new phones. Sure it has STUFFED the sales channels. But those phones sit on shelves and in back rooms and none of the stores have managed to sell through the product to customers. It is looking like a disaster of epic proportions for Apple!!!!
agh, ok i see you like embracing ignorance. talk to me again once you walk out of your perfect world.
No China Launch
Keep in mind that the phone isn't launching in China right away. So China scalping infrastructure has been dusted off and will be in FULL EFFECT. I may swing by the Apple Fifth Avenue store to see the perpetual line of nice little Chinese ladies waiting online to buy an iPhone to be shipped off. On a sunny day the line is quite colorful as they frequently bring sun umbrellas.
Keep in mind that the phone isn't launching in China right away. So China scalping infrastructure has been dusted off and will be in FULL EFFECT. I may swing by the Apple Fifth Avenue store to see the perpetual line of nice little Chinese ladies waiting online to buy an iPhone to be shipped off. On a sunny day the line is quite colorful as they frequently bring sun umbrellas.
Because its publicity for their mall and Apple is good for foot traffic of people with money. Basically, it is all about the moolah.
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Apple stores are 100% getting more than 30-50 (that would be dumb). I'd say att least 200 phones.
Agree!
I ordered a 128GB Silver Iphone 4.7 on the 16th through the Verizon site. I just got a text stating that it will be delivered on the 19th. Lines are soo 2012
I ordered a 128GB Silver Iphone 4.7 on the 16th through the Verizon site. I just got a text stating that it will be delivered on the 19th. Lines are soo 2012
Lucky I wasn't there, because I get massively aggressive when people cut in line. No chance they would have stayed there without saying them to go away and if they give me lip duking it out.
We probably would have gotten arrested, but hey, I would still have a smile on my face ;-). Oh, line cutters rely on people saying nothing... USually when you confront them firmly, they slink away..
Yes, places like New York city may have a larger proportion of scalpers to regular people, but in the rest of America, I bet that 95% of the people in line really want to buy an iPhone.
I have been in line on some launches of Apple products, and I have NEVER met someone who is buying a phone/tablet to sell to someone else. Somehow those people with NO experience seem to know it all.
And my line experiences have always been wonderful. I get to the store about 1-2 hours before it opens, and stand and chat with people who love Apple. I get phone numbers, email addresses, even a date once, and find out tips and tricks with Apple products I never knew. Then after the store opens, in between 30-45 minutes, I have my phone/tablet and I'm out. This is middle of America, not NYC, so that is very likely different.
I am down with the whole preorder thing. But when your carrier is T-Mobile lol... Well... Let's just say I will be in line tonight at my apple store
Sounds nice. Here in NYC you would have to get there much earlier, maybe even the day before, and you are going to wait a long time for that line to be processed. In either case, the launch day crowd is mainly users who really want the device. The line gets funny the next day. At that point the fanboys have gotten their stuff and the line becomes much more dominated as a percentage basis with scalpers. In years past at certain points it would be nearly 50% little ladies waiting patiently all day on a line until that relatively random moment when the Apple person comes out and says another shipment is available for sale.
That's a fact!
That's a fact!
I pre-ordered this year, but when they don't do a pre-order I've done the line thing and its a lot of fun believe it or not!
That's a fact!
I pre-ordered this year, but when they don't do a pre-order I've done the line thing and its a lot of fun believe it or not!
Similar experience
I get a new iPhone & iPad every year and when Apple has not offered to pre-order, I have done the Apple Store line wait. All have been great experiences, met some very cool people and learned a lot.
I still prefer the option to pre-order, however I'm sure I'll do the line thing again just for fun, or if no pre-order option is available.
I get a new iPhone & iPad every year and when Apple has not offered to pre-order, I have done the Apple Store line wait. All have been great experiences, met some very cool people and learned a lot.
I still prefer the option to pre-order, however I'm sure I'll do the line thing again just for fun, or if no pre-order option is available.
I too was able to preorder 8min early at 253am through att.com order went through rite away and had the confirmation a few seconds after the order went through but I ordered the iphone6 64 gig grey not the plus version. And have a delevery for tomorow. I never looked at the delevery time for the plus. I'm curious as to what the shipping time was though
Look at all those Chinese Scalpers ready to steal all the iPhones to bring back to China!! Totally not Fair !!!
The latest type of attack ad, which started in political attack ads, is to attack your opponent's strengths.
Exaggerate their strengths, then mock them, and make the opponent not want to bring up their strengths again because the exaggeration will be what people think of.
A lot of people fall for it.
A few people says Obama is the chosen one? Exaggerate. Act like everyone who supports him calls him Jesus and prays to him. There. Now you can pick on people who even slightly like Obama equating them to nut jobs.
An opponent is liberal on some issue. Say the opponent supports gay marriage. Say 'liberal', show them in a cartoon driving a 60's bus with 60's flowers, show people in sunglasses, baggy pants at Woodstock smoking, and now everyone equates that opponent to everything that's wrong with the 60's.
An opponent is conservative on some issue. Say the opponent supports the NRA. Show the opponent in a cartoon of the old west swilling beer and toting a firearm. Show crazed lunatics in an old western bar shooting the feet of dancers. Now people think of this opponent as a loose canon.
It's the same thing Samsung has picked up with Apple. Apple fans love Apple products and want it on day one. Exciting! Not many other companies have such excited customers.... But... equate all Apple fans as weird nut jobs/sheep for standing in line, equate all Apple fans as not knowing anything but loyalty to their mother ship. And the Samsung fans eat it up.