The way your post reads, it seemed like you said the white fronts are on the black phones. Or I could be extremely exhausted from constantly checking for phone status....
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Roll call - Oct. 4th - Oct. 10th original ship date
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I'm pretty sure they've already announced them and they have bigger batteries. But still the hump. But you're right. Not on the site yet.
They were saying they would've bought the silver because they knew the blacks would sell out fast, but they don't like the white fronts so they opted to go for black instead of silver anyway.
No. My bad. I reread it. I meant I would have taken silver but it only comes in white front. That left only black back as option. Most popular.
I Pre-ordered from costco with verizon but I'll still post updates in that thread!
Greetings everyone.
Texas here.
Still disappointed the early preorder made no difference but oh well.
Texas here.
Still disappointed the early preorder made no difference but oh well.
man- if I had to wait till november- I'd just wait for the next iphone. hell if this really does last another month for delivery i may do the same.
Thank you for the link to this thread...great to know I'm not alone in this. I can't help but notice that most of the people that ordered shortly after pre-order was available and are stuck with an Oct. 4th - 10th are all on ATT
No problem! We all have to get through this together lol but yeah I'm with AT&T also. You might be on to something lol
I haven't noticed but that would make sense because the only reason it took me so long to place my order was because the disconnect between Apple and ATT servers while I was on the Apple Store App. Finally got it on Apple.com though. Anyone else had that problem?
I didn't. But it took me awhile because Apple website didn't come up for me until maybe 2:07am CST. Smh
AT&T here too. It seems that no matter what I do, AT&T finds a way to screw me!
lol...Not sure if I am or not but I guess we just have to wait and hope they bump up the dates. I've never had this problem before and I've pre-ordered like this at least three times...
I had one installment left on Next. I kept trying to order through Apple Store app but it would only tell me to wait until Sept 27 to be eligible or pay full price. I gave up and went to bed. Woke up at 5 am and looked at the AT&T app where --hey look at that-- it let me pay the last installment. So I did and ordered on the Apple app but by then... pass the gravy, please.
The 6s Plus never had one either, probably because of the battery life it already came with
Were you trying to upgrade on Next again? Apple notified me of the remaining Next payments I have, but still allowed me to place my order. However I went the IUP route...
I have a 3:15am order through apple for Tmobile 7plus 32gb Matte Black and I have 0ct 4-10
what screwed me was I had a 16th date but applied for a barclays card, got accepted, went to the checkout screen and was given the OCT...
Not sure if it was really a joke, how could anyone tell what the trend was going to be this year? Before pre-orders even started Apple warned of low supply so that was the first hint that it was going to be crazy. I think them, and probably everyone else way underestimated the number of plus models that would be sold this year. I am usually in the average group of people and decided this year I wanted a plus. The improvements just made it an easier decision. I'm sure Apple wished there was more supply because ultimately that brings them more money faster. I'd rather see quality come out with a delay then end up with an exploding battery.
In regards to this thread, I am in the 4th through 10th bunch, although I actually started out on the 23rd. due to early morning lack of sleep stupidity I completely screwed up. When I picked my 128 black phone I noticed as the screen was sliding over that the date said the 23rd. It took me by surprise because it was about 10 after at that point and the store just came up. I had to think to myself when the release date was and googled it real quick. I then went back to check the availability of the other colors. So that was one delay. The next delay came after I had gone through the whole process and ended up on the accessory screen with the phone in my bag. I decided I was going to order a case separately so I could use a different card. Since I don't use the app much my initial tired reaction was to hit the top navigation button which I thought went back to the cart. I believe it was labeled Summary, can't remember. Next thing I know I'm picking a new phone. Did the same thing again and ended up with 2 in my cart and an error saying I could only replace one phone. After the 3rd attempt I finally realized my mistake. Now I am extremely computer literate (network engineer for a long time, and programmer for a few years), so I was baffled that I was missing the obvious. 3Am with only a few hours of sleep the night before will do that I guess. So I cleared the two extra phones from my cart and checked out. By that time I had hit 10-4/10-11 range and was disappointed. This preorder period was one that couldn't take any mistakes or delays. In the end I'm not mad or worrying much about it because I have way bigger things to deal with. The only thing I am slightly irritated about is that my next plan is likely now shifted back a month because by the time the phone is activated the next installment will be posted on my bill. Last years trade in was handled before the next bill so nothing skipped a beat.
So in the Apple pre-order thread I've seen multiple people on the west coast who seemed to be able to access the app or webpage a few minutes before everyone. As someone who is very aware of development and the network engineering side I've thought about how that could happen. Normally if a DNS record is changed it takes time to propagate throughout the internet. So people closer to the source of the change would see it before others who may be father away or on providers who may be farther down the line in regards to larger backbone providers who will see changes right away. In this case though modifying the store and webpages wouldn't necessarily be DNS related. Once they push the new pages out to the web server (likely a cluster or server farm here considering the amount of traffic that hits it), it would most likely be immediately available. So assuming that is the case, the next thing is the location. If the data is being served out of a datacenter on the west coast, users on that side of the country will have a shorter round trip time to the servers and would likely have a better success rate at hitting it, especially when thousands or maybe even more are hitting it at the same time. Those who are closer to the source are possibly going to have a better success rate and could get in sooner, especially if things are being limited somewhere along the way due to the high load. There is a lot of things happening behind the scenes to be able to handle large loads like they deal with on days like those. From what I am seeing it is about a 5 minute difference from when west coasters were placing orders until the people on the east coast were able to do so. Normally it wouldn't be a big deal as it would take a few hours to sell out of opening day stock. But this time around 5 minutes ended up being a week or two delay. So I could be wrong here, just speculating based on years of working in the industry. I would love to see what they actually do to handle all of this at once. its not perfect but they have learned a lot from previous years where connectivity was a mess.
Sorry for the long winded post, hopefully I didn't lose everyone
People with those end of September dates have had a lot of movement between yesterday and today. That makes me kinda hopeful. I really jerked myself around ordering JB but I just had to have it. Hope it turns out to be worth it for me.