Sketchy Rumor Claims iPhone 16 Pre-Orders Could Begin on a Thursday Instead of Usual Friday

[MacRumors]

Apple's annual iPhone event is scheduled to take place on Monday, September 9. Typically, this would suggest that iPhone 16 pre-orders would begin on Friday, September 13, but German blog Macerkopf this week claimed it heard that the pre-orders could instead begin on Thursday, September 12. The report did not elaborate on the source of this information, nor did it provide a reason for this potential change, so skepticism is warranted.

It is worth noting that Apple's annual iPhone event most often takes place on a Tuesday, but the upcoming event on September 9 will be the first-ever iPhone event to be held on a Monday. It is unclear if the event being held one day earlier than expected has any relation to pre-orders potentially starting one day earlier as well.

In any case, Apple will reveal when iPhone 16 pre-orders will actually begin during its event. Will it be a Thursday or a Friday? Place your bets.

Article Link: Sketchy Rumor Claims iPhone 16 Pre-Orders Could Begin on a Thursday Instead of Usual Friday

 

[vertsix]

Yeah because they would change tradition that has been a thing for over 15 years. /s

Sketchiest rumor on planet earth.

 

[tomms11]

Could it be to give them 1 more day to ship out devices if they will be shipped from India instead of China?

 

[scrapesleon]

they start the keynote on a Monday I guess it could

 

[tonmischa]

Maybe they are trying to avoid „Friday, the 13th“?
Might be seen as bad karma by some people…

 

[BarrettF77]

13 is considered a unlucky number by some. It’s a stretch but who knows.

 

[contacos]

Next thing you tell me they won't have to take down a whole website to update a product detail page

 

[sw1tcher]

If iPhone event is one day earlier (on a Monday instead of the usual Tuesday), and...

if iPhone pre-orders do start one day earlier (on a Thursday instead of the usual Friday), then...

will iPhone launch day also be one day ealier too (on Thursday, Sept. 19 instead of Friday, Sept. 20)?

 

[antiprotest]

Nah that's too much innovation for me.

 

[Cirillo Gherardo]

I mean, the event is taking place 1 day earlier than expected, so it's possible.

 

[H.E. Pennypacker]

Who cares. No one is rushing to pre order iPhone anymore especially in mass. Sure they will be sold out for a few weeks 48-72 hours after the pre order opens but I do feel there is less desire to always “have it first” with the common public.

That said I’ll be preordering at 12:01AM because I am a nerd.

 

[Porco]

This news is so shocking it will take me a week to recover. Well, maybe 6 days, but that’s only my sketchy estimate.

 

[pepsijunky]

Come on man.

 

[fwmireault]

Yeah because they would change tradition that has been a thing for over 15 years. /s

Sketchiest rumor on planet earth.

I mean they have already changed the tradition by scheduling the event on a Monday, which is a first for an iPhone event. I still think that the preorders will start on the following Friday, but this rumour still sounds plausible to me. Why would they need an extra day to prepare the preorders?

 

[mcru21]

keeping things interesting

 

[Blackstick]

Could it be to give them 1 more day to ship out devices if they will be shipped from India instead of China?

They're typically waiting in Anchorage, Alaska having cleared US customs by the time preorders begin.

 

[jbachandouris]

But we still have to wait until the following Friday to get it so the day isn’t very helpful.

 

[bigandtasty]

Dang, this is one heavy rumor.... Thursday to Friday! Crazy times we're living in 🙃

 

[sw1tcher]

It is worth noting that Apple's annual iPhone event most often takes place on a Tuesday, but the upcoming event on September 9 will be the first-ever iPhone event to be held on a Monday.

I mean they have already changed the tradition by scheduling the event on a Monday, which is a first for an iPhone event.

iPhone 3G was introduced on Monday, June 9, 2008
iPhone 3GS was introduced on Monday, June 8, 2009
iPhone 4 was introduced on Monday, June 7, 2010
iPhone SE (1st gen) was introduced on Monday, March 21, 2016.

iPhones started being introduced on a Tuesday starting with the iPhone 4s (Tuesday, October 4, 2011)

Apple has held an iPhone event on a Wednesday (for iPhone 5 on Wed, September 12, 2012, and for iPhone 7 on Wed. September 7, 2016) too.

 

[klasma]

Next thing you tell me they won't have to take down a whole website to update a product detail page

I think the reason they do that is that the “down” page requires significantly less resources to serve to all the people who are pressing F5 on key repeat.

 

[macduke]

iPhone 3G was introduced on Monday, June 9, 2008
iPhone 3GS was introduced on Monday, June 8, 2009
iPhone 4 was introduced on Monday, June 7, 2010

iPhones started being introduced on a Tuesday starting with the iPhone 4s (Tuesday, October 4, 2011)

Dammit you beat me to this comment by a minute, lol. The article is wrong, but it is the first Monday event since they moved to the September/October release cycle.

 

[klasma]

Isn’t this because it’s a leap year?

 

[Jamie0003]

Lol no

Also who cares

 

[Dwalls90]

It feels like this is only being based on the fact that the event was moved forward a day. The pre-order day doesn't really matter because unless Apple is also releasing the new iPhones on the following Thursday vs. Friday, it's not like they're accelerating the real release timeline. I think that really matters to most is the total amount of time from actual release/event until the device is available for sale.

 

[one more]

And what would that change on a large scale? 🤷🏻‍♂️