Maybe Apple should take a leaf out of Dominos Pizza, and build an App that lets you monitor the production of your machine...
Stage 1.

check you are worthy of a machine and have cash
Stage 2.

chuck your order on a pile somewhere in china, and select at random which to make first
Stage 3. Nice people in China collect all the parts to make your device
Stage 4. Its in the oven... and sizzling hot! (oops wrong app)

Stage 4. Nice folk in China make you a nice scratch and issue free device
Stage 5. Send customer a Preparing to Ship notice, and make them wait a day
Stage 6. Play Origami with packing, and print label to shipping address
Stage 7. Shipped along with the other 2m devices that are in short supply

Stage 8. Arrives in destination country, awaits for the nice folk at UPS to give us a tracking number
Stage 9. Delivery day - And your out at work as tracking did not update sooner
Stage 10. Work out how to flat pack box, and put somewhere safe and work out how to switch on mac.