Heh. Whenever someone complains about the high price of Apple's goods, all we need do is point to the masses that call day after day for no good reason.
When I started my career back in '93 at IBM, we figured the cost per call was $45 (that's the warm body and all the training and infrastructure to support them). And that was on an average 8 minute call. I wonder how much more expensive support is for companies these days.
It doesn't seem to matter how much we explain that there's nothing the reps can do for you, people continue to call in and waste everyone's time.
All those with "June" should take a deep breath and feel lucky - lucky you don't have a date range, as that means you'll have your watches very, very soon. Those of us that had "July" now have date ranges...our expectations have been set - no early June deliveries for us.
You will have your watches soon.
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I was just comparing AW shipped to states in the U.S.
It seemed to be happening to the Sport Space Gray. Others in the U.S. We're getting them before mine. So, my order time seemed to be +25 seconds then I finally received mine.
Seconds? We've been over the whole "there's no quality of service on e-mail delivery" topic, yes? The e-mail confirmation times are a good approximation of order sequence. Nothing more. E-mails are sent to a farm of IMAP servers that are usually ordered in a "round-robin", not load-balanced measure. Why? Because people don't care that much about the order in which e-mail is sent.
This is why some people got their confirmation e-mail 9 minutes (or more!) after ordering.
That time stamp was never designed by Apple to be an indicator of where you are in the queue; we just decided to use it as one.
It's all perception. This is how it appears as you continue to wait for your watch, but we're such a small sliver of the orders, there's almost certainly neighbours getting their watches that you don't see.
several times a day.
