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Seriously, where the watches at?
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Well, there were two of us in this very short thread that got charged. I know some people in the Modern Buckle and Black SS threads were charged last week. Probably more if you check the other threads.
And we are only a small sample.
Yup. A buddy of mine received his 38mm BSB on Friday. Odd thing is, he had no advanced warning...UPS just showed up, and he happened to be home at the time.
The hyperbole is strong.
People don't post confirmations of their iPhone 6/6 Plus orders... is that because Apple's not delivering any more of them?
How long do you expect people to post their confirmations? After a few days or couple weeks of them, there's little motivation for people to keep posting their new confirmations .. the first few/wave of them, sure; there's some communal excitement there. But after that? Not as much. Just because people aren't posting confirmations doesn't mean people aren't getting them.
This is a disaster of a launch, which is a shame because this is a vastly superior first gen product compared to the iPhone or iPad.
I think the misstep has been how in the dark everyone has been every step of the way. I ordered a 42 SS WSB that, thankfully, delivered on launch day, but I was counting on (and was told by Apple employees at two different Apple stores, both of which carried "edition" models so you'd think those stores would "know") that they'd have all bands on launch day. Now, those same stores aren't sure if they'll get them before the end of June. That's bad. The iPad had accessories in store on day one. The whole profitability of this device, I'd expect, is in the bands. The link bracelet costs more than most consumer electronic devices. To not have that ready to roll on launch day in store is inexcusable. Ditto with the other bands where the margins I'm sure are close to 500% or better. I have a leather loop and it's fantastic but it's not that involved a band or that fine a leather, it's inexcusable to not be able to mass produce these when the demand is there.
I think the misstep has been how in the dark everyone has been every step of the way. I ordered a 42 SS WSB that, thankfully, delivered on launch day, but I was counting on (and was told by Apple employees at two different Apple stores, both of which carried "edition" models so you'd think those stores would "know") that they'd have all bands on launch day. Now, those same stores aren't sure if they'll get them before the end of June. That's bad. The iPad had accessories in store on day one. The whole profitability of this device, I'd expect, is in the bands. The link bracelet costs more than most consumer electronic devices. To not have that ready to roll on launch day in store is inexcusable. Ditto with the other bands where the margins I'm sure are close to 500% or better. I have a leather loop and it's fantastic but it's not that involved a band or that fine a leather, it's inexcusable to not be able to mass produce these when the demand is there.
I got a 42mm space grey for launch which I liked so much I ordered a steel WSB with shipping a June shipping date that was dispatched on Friday.
My other friend had their Steel BSB delivered a few days after launch too.
My other friend had their Steel BSB delivered a few days after launch too.
Yup. A buddy of mine received his 38mm BSB on Friday. Odd thing is, he had no advanced warning...UPS just showed up, and he happened to be home at the time.
That's how we got our missing link bracelet last week. Zero warning. No "out on truck."
It just appeared.
They have not missed a promised delivery window yet have they? stop crying.
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I got mine on April 24th.
As did I, honestly we were lucky what we wanted is what they had ready. I still haven't seen Apple miss dates yet so the whining makes no sense. You got the delivery window when you ordered.
OP,
After reading all of your posts in this thread, it's apparent that you have no idea what you're talking about.
After reading all of your posts in this thread, it's apparent that you have no idea what you're talking about.
They charged my card a week earlier. They declared my package lost because they'd not seen it at UPS in over 5 days. Then? It magically appeared with no delivery notice. Needed a signature so it was good that someone was home.
If you look at Mac's, MacBook's, iPhone's and iPad's, there are usually only a handful of options for us to choose from. With the Apple Watch, there are 38. There was no way Apple could "estimate" which versions to make the most of to fulfil all our orders on launch day.
There has been a public holiday in China which has affected production.
There has been an issue with the Taptic Engine.
The bands are slow to make.
Apple has to make millions of products, utilising numerous suppliers, with hundred (thousands? millions?) of employee's - all while maintaining secrecy.
The point is there are a lot of reasons why you don't have your watch today. I didn't save enough money in time and didn't order until 9th May, and I'm not in the US, so I'm probably much further down the queue than you are. But I enjoy coming to this community and seeing how everyone is getting on with their orders, because it gives me a little hope.
Personally I think Apple's biggest mistake was making "their most personal device ever" and only having a 2 week pre-order window (after announcing the product 5 months earlier). They would probably have been able to fulfil more orders if the March announcement was before Mobile World Congress and the pre-orders started straight after (just to dominate headlines / blog posts).
Mistake, may be the wrong word here as I remember with the iPhone 6 Plus, stock was very limited on launch day (19th Sept). But Miraculously there was plenty of stock on 30th Sept when we all got paid. So I would expect there to be an element of Artificial Supply issues for the next two weeks and loads of stock from the end of the month onwards. We still have 1 whole week left of the products "first month of sales".
Conversely,I think what you should have done is contributed to this community in a different way. There was no need to start this thread. There are plenty of other threads, whether you want to discuss orders for a specific model, or orders for a specific country, or fully commit and start tracking planes.
Don't worry, if you have an order, you are still likely to be one of the first to get one in your group of peers.
Still not happy go here: www.apple.com/feedback
Yeah. There's no way in hell Apple, the first company on track to become worth a trillion dollars, could have expected that there would be at least ONE order of each model and size of watch. This line of reasoning that "there's no way they could have predicted stock" is absolute bull.
The public holiday lasted 6 months? Oh, I didn't know that. Any type of issue with parts should have also been dealt with by now.
Then of course you don't understand what people who ordered at 12:00 on April 10th who still haven't gotten past pending are going through. With zero communication about delays, I might add.
yes. It could have been handled better. That's the problem.
There's plenty of need for this thread. It's been 5 weeks since pre order and not every model has shipped. It makes no sense. This has never happened before in Apple history, they are a HUGE company. There's no excuse for this type of negligence, especially for the most expensive lines of this product. Things like availability in random boutique shoppes where Joe so and so can just walk in off the street and buy a model people have been waiting months for with no effort just to flip on eBay is only adding fuel to the fire. Take the fanboy goggles off and this launch is an absolute disaster. The Watch deserves better than this.
Yeah, like they'll ever respond. At this rate, I doubt I'll ever receive a watch at all. Or maybe they'll put a Milanese Loop in the wrong box like so many people are now reporting.
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Same... ordered April 12th!
Yep. Apple rewards the people who ordered the cheap-o model with quick delivery. Too bad there is a cost: your watch looks like a knockoff of the real deal.
This is the first time Apple has launched a product with so many different variations on models.
Apple is dependent on its suppliers to have the proper materials in hand to ship their products. In a case where there are so many different models with an array of different materials required for each, it stands to reason that they could have a glut of materials required for some models, but a dearth of materials for others. And, so, you can end up with a situation where some models ship sooner, and others ship later.
We ALL knew when the different models would ship before we paid our money. This isn't negligence on Apple's part, it's gross entitlement on the customer's part.
I'm still waiting for my black stainless steel (due 'June'). I knew it would ship in 'June' at midnight, April 10th; I placed the order anyway. It would be awfully childish of me to sit here now and start complaining about 'delays'. There is no delay. As far as I can tell, it's still on schedule.
At first I was going to say there is no need for this thread, but I think I will agree: there is a need for this thread. It provides a place to capture the irrational and inappropriate belly aching and hopefully mitigate its presence on other threads.