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

[ProbablyDylan]

iPhone 16 Pro, so fast that it showed up for preorder a day early.

 

[CharlesShaw]

Or perhaps Apple is trying to identify leaks?

 

[fwmireault]

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.

I stand corrected, I relied on the information from the article. Thanks!

 

[Fftzyy]

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

You realize it is Friday in Germany before it is in the USA? People are not very international here I see.

 

[svish]

Don't think so. Expecting pre orders to open only on Friday.

 

[widestload]

Isn’t there a presidential candidate debate on the 10th that’ll sap a lot of news space? Maybe Apple wants to avoid that?

 

[Alexrat1996]

Whatever works I have to be up before 8 am est to order it anyways.

 

[Glideslope]

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

Sketchiest rumor on planet earth.

Let's not overlook the event being a Monday. It could happen.......

 

[Alexrat1996]

Let's not overlook the event being a Monday. It could happen.......

In my opinion, this could be weird because the only thing they change was the time to the morning time, but it will be very strange if they swap date also but if they do swap the date I would assume the time would also change

 

[dandrewk]

Just as long as they don't continue to have the start time in the middle of the night PDT.

 

[btrach144]

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)?

If this is true, then I do truly wonder if it’s to avoid Friday the 13th.

Which, would have no impact on the actual launch date and my guess is that it would remain on Friday Sept. 20th.

If anything, I wonder if this also gives their shipping team 1 extra day to start preparing phones to leave China.

 

[Apple_Robert]

I don’t believe the rumor.

 

[Alexrat1996]

Just as long as they don't continue to have the start time in the middle of the night PDT.

I prefer at 8 am est get me up early to start day

 

[CJM]

Would be great if so.. Getting married that weekend so a day early would actually give me time to get an order in.