Is this the first year that the Apple Store and the carrier pre-order threads for the US have been combined?
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Other USA Apple.com iPhone Air /17/17 Pro/ 17 Max/ Pre-Release, Order And Delivery Thread
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Yes - The user(s) that used to create these threads and pump life into them are no longer on MacRumors. When they were around, there were individual threads for the different carriers and retailers versus the one size fits all approach this year.
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You've had iPhones delivered by other than UPS? I believe Apple has an exclusive contract with UPS for delivery of iPhones.
Actually I don't think I'm right about that. They only use UPS the most for iPhones but they don't have an exclusive contract. Just my experience that all my iPhones have been delivered by UPS, and most other Apple stuff. Anyway, idc as long as the driver gives me the opportunity to sign.
They do. Anything that guy ordered that wasnt delivered UPS was either A. Not an iphone or B. iphone financed by a carrier like ATT etc
I have had phones delivered by FedEx on launch day more than once.
I wouldn’t come in here and lie about something so silly. I’ve had deliveries from both on launch day. Don’t know why that’s so hard to believe lol
Same here - FedEx has delivered iPhones to me in the past for mishandling my order.
iPhone 14+ was a local Apple store delivery via FedEx because Apple messed up.
And I have had launch day Mac Mini and Studio Macs delivered by FedEx as they were already stateside.
per order there was a limitation of 2 iphones, this time as well
I would love Pacific Blue for the Air. From the 12 Pro/Pro Max. Such an awesome color.
Not necessarily. I ordered the 17 Pro Max Orange 256GB with T-Mobile and yesterday morning I got the tracking number showing up in my UPS account:
In the past, there were several threads, with a USA Apple.com thread plus other threads from other means of purchase. I think that this is causing some confusion within this thread because we don’t have numerous threads.
But you don't get the trade in after 12 months to get a new phone, right, with the straight ACMI? I thought I saw you could use the AC for the IUP which would eliminate the new loan every year.
With ACMI, if you want to trade in your phone after a year, you can. But, you still need to pay off your Apple Card credit card balance for the original phone’s purchase. So, it doesn’t work quite like the iUP.
The ACMI is just a credit card purchase using your Apple Card where you can carry the balance of that specific purchase without it being subject to interest (as long as you pay per the agreement.)
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No one is accusing you of lying. Ive seen the contract when I worked for Apple. The contract is still ongoing. Any non financed carrier iphone is delivered by UPS in the USA. All these other people are exceptions. Fedex delivers it from the store bc of a mishanding. Exception. Someone ordered a ATT from Apple.com Fedex. Exception.
If you order a iphone that is unlocked or connected to any carrier, its UPS. Exceptions arise in locations UPS doesnt deliver too or weird one offs.
I did a ChatGPT on this question of what company delivers launch day iPhones purchased from Apple. I got a fairly lengthy reply, but attached the summary. Notably, while carrier purchase is a factor is possibly using FedEx or another carrier, so is customer location, even when ordered from the Apple Store. This was spelled out in a bit more detail in the main response, but still suggested in the summary.
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I just go this for my Verizon order, my apple order still says processing
Let it go, man. Just let it go.
More action on this thread than the carrier one. Less people interacting then previous years also.
