Walmart Receives iPhone 4s, Apple Confirms Early iPhone 4 Deliveries on June 23rd

[iGary]

One shipped and got the e-mail that it will be delivered tomorrow (it's in Newark, NJ), the other "Not yet shipped."

How many "Not yet shipped" folks are out there?

 

[Captainobvvious]

I am getting a tad concerned because my tracking still says June 24th.

It is only a day away so I have no doubt it will get to my local facility tomorrow... I wonder if they are actually going to deliver it before the tracking says. Little worried.

I don't mind waiting until Thursday but it will kill me to wait all day at work for it to arrive only to find that it didn't.

 

[cmaier]

I'll bet Apple is releasing early because AT&T dropped the ball and shipped with delivery on the 23rd. Apple had to do something to keep the minions happy.

However, for those of us with a 24th delivery date, don't get your hopes up too high for early delivery. FedEx has this nasty habit of not delivering early. Whenever a package arrives early at the destination depot, they always hold it and not deliver it until its designated delivery day saying in the tracking, "not due for delivery".

For example, a package was shipped 3 day express and it arrives at the local depot on the 2nd day. Instead of delivering it that day, they hold it until the 3rd day. Same for 2 day delivery if it arrives in one day.

I hate when they do that

Kenny

Apple sent emails saying to ignore the date and promising it will come tomorrow. Your anectdotes are, for the moment, trumped by apple's explicit promise.

 

[Iloveapple!]

No they're not. People interested in a Droid have zero interest in the restrictive iPhone OS and App store, and they sure as heck aren't interested in AT&T.

yeah you're right, that's why AT&T has the most smartphone users out there.

(where's that sarcasm key?)

 

[Donz0r]

I am getting a tad concerned because my tracking still says June 24th.

It is only a day away so I have no doubt it will get to my local facility tomorrow... I wonder if they are actually going to deliver it before the tracking says. Little worried.

I don't mind waiting until Thursday but it will kill me to wait all day at work for it to arrive only to find that it didn't.

Did you get an E-Mail from apple saying 23rd? The email clearly says that the tracking may show a later date - but it's coming on the 23rd

 

[guitargoddsjm]

Yet the people you took the biggest shot at are the ones that post on this forum. Mac users.

Go back to your cave, troll.

Anyways, I'm super pumped. But I'm almost considering selling it to make some extra money to pay for my computer...

 

[stadlin]

It's certainly not going to be split evenly among the 5 countries. The US is going to get a much higher percentage, especially considering the phone will be offered by Apple (major), AT&T (major), Walmart, Best Buy, and Radio Shack. It's a good point, but it's still a very large volume for a single day window.

sure the USA will get the biggest allotment due to its population

308 Mio inhabitants in US -> 48% (something about 288k iPhones)
127 Mio inhabitants in Japan -> 20%
82 inhabitants in Germany -> 13%
65 Mio inhabitants in France -> 10%
61 inhabitants in UK -> 9%

total potential iPhone owners: 643 Mio (0.093% of the population orderd one )


By the way: 5% of all iPhones were sold in Switzerland with a population of just 8 Mio. Compared with the USA, a regular swiss person is 4.5x more likely going to buy an iPhone than his friend from America.

 

[CplBadboy]

Anyone in the UK received their shipping confirmation? Ordered mine from the online store on release day but was wondering whether that going to an O2 store tomorrow might be an option to get one. If not Im due for one next week!

 

[scuzzbug]

Wish I was getting an iPhone 4 tomorrow, or even on thursday... unfortunately Australia is looking at a July/August release date. It makes me sad .
So Everyone getting one within the next week be happy

 

[bytethese]

Anyone who ordered from AT&T, does your FedEx tracking number actually work yet? Mine has been invalid since I got it yesterday morning... I have no idea what this means for delivery dates either. Will I get my phone on 6/24?

Just checked, and finally it does for me. Until I just checked it wasn't in the system. Heck, even my AT&T pre-order says estimated delivery is June 23rd by 3pm!

 

[sasebastian]

got an email from apple last night telling me it will be here before launch date. needless to say, I got a chubby while reading that email.

 

[mgmusicman94]

I got my email too. Apple's probably doing this to lighten the load on AT&T's servers because we all know AT&T wouldnt be able to handle activations all in one day. But also it might be because Apple has some sympathy for the people who tried to preorder on the 15th and couldn't get through until 10:00 at night, like me.

My original order said July 2nd, then it was prepared for shipment early, then the date was changed to the 24th, then it changed to the 23rd! I'm so excited.

 

[luv2hum]

is anyone else thinking poor poor justin.....when we get the phone tommorow, I think we should go over to dallas and show him all the features he could have had if he were to just wait at home like the rest of us.

 

[ihaveNFC]

Apple's probably doing this to lighten the load on AT&T's servers because we all know AT&T wouldnt be able to handle activations all in one day. But also it might be because Apple has some sympathy for the people who tried to preorder on the 15th and couldn't get through until 10:00 at night, like me.

I'll mention again... Google was hoping to rain on Apple's release with their own release of some sort on the 23rd. Maybe this is Apple's response or am I looking into this way too much?

 

[countzero2k10]

I got my email too. Apple's probably doing this to lighten the load on AT&T's servers because we all know AT&T wouldnt be able to handle activations all in one day. But also it might be because Apple has some sympathy for the people who tried to preorder on the 15th and couldn't get through until 10:00 at night, like me.

My original order said July 2nd, then it was prepared for shipment early, then the date was changed to the 24th, then it changed to the 23rd! I'm so excited.

Holy crap! Never ordering from AT&T ever again. Ordered at 9:20am on the 15th. No shipping info at all... But when I call they say it will be "shipped shortly". Wonder what their definition of "shortly" is...

 

[Shumdit]

Anyone stop to think that maybe they are allowing early delivery to help take away from the announcement of the new Motorola Droid?

Whoops guess so...poster above beat me to it!

I posted the same thing 2 days ago on appleinsider and yesterday on macrumors and a moderator told me that the idea was so stupid he needed to read a book to make him smarter after reading my post. He has since apologized

 

[fishmd]

is anyone else thinking poor poor justin.....when we get the phone tommorow, I think we should go over to dallas and show him all the features he could have had if he were to just wait at home like the rest of us.

ROFL

 

[Shumdit]

600K units of a single device from a single vendor is far easier than the holiday period. With a month or so to prepare, the major shipping companies can comfortably swallow this kind of load. Millions of boxes all from different vendors is a far tougher logistics problem.

More than a million copies of the final Harry Potter book were shipped in one day. The only difference with the iPhone is the need for people to sign for it.

Avoiding activation server melt-down is almost certainly the prime motivator. Annoying competitors might be an added bonus.

(Is the 600,000 number actually restricted to deliveries anyway? I thought it was total pre-order including in-store pick-up. Are first run orders from 3rd party retailers included in that count?).

I do not disagree with the overall meaning, but the Harry potter books were mostly going to large retailers and could have been shipped in ahead of time and just held in inventory. They were not sending a million individual books to a million different individuals. Correct? I know that the reaility is that apple/AT&T did not ship 600000 phones to 600000 individuals, but I bet they sent at least 100000-200000 to individual addresses.

 

[sasebastian]

not necessarily. I know a lot of people who have gotten Droids who have expressed interest in the iPhone, but were already heavily invested in Verizon and just wanted something "like" and iPhone. Not all Droid users are the uber nerds who want to root their phone's OS and are worried about App store restrictions. I'd say the majority of Droid users are just like the majority of iPhone users, and they really don't know the difference between the two, only their similarities as smart phones.

I kind of agree. I know 4 people who have the droid phone only because Verizon don't offer iphone (yet). they would have rather had an iphone and have always been envious of mine but are restricted to a contract with verizon. The droid is not a better phone than iphone in many ways. so they have real multitasking. wow! they don't have one quarter of the apps that the app store has. The phone is heavy and looks like crap with the flip keyboard. the touch screen is decades behind apples multitouch tech. The OS is not a streamlined and sleek as iOS and does not have near the security either. Android phones are and will always be behind iphone in sales and demand. I have and iphone but my wife has a droid because of her work using verizon so I've had plenty of time to play with the wanna be iphone and it is not that impressive and at some times too complicated. I'll take simplicity and "it just works" over hype.

 

[alakazzam]

This entire launch has been uncharacteristic of Apple.

This is such a true statement.

From the massive leaks of iPhone 4's, then the keynote presention with an over crowded wifi network, then to the problems with preordering the phone. This whole process seems like Apple has been just going through the motions not really paying attention to what they are doing.

 

[oneals2focus]

Wonder if those holding a reservation at an Apple Store will also get to take part in the revised launch date of 6/23?

I wish! I can't be mad though I just got my credit card in the mail yesterday to pay for my phone.

 

[Shumdit]

sure the USA will get the biggest allotment due to its population

308 Mio inhabitants in US -> 48% (something about 288k iPhones)
127 Mio inhabitants in Japan -> 20%
82 inhabitants in Germany -> 13%
65 Mio inhabitants in France -> 10%
61 inhabitants in UK -> 9%

total potential iPhone owners: 643 Mio (0.093% of the population orderd one )


By the way: 5% of all iPhones were sold in Switzerland with a population of just 8 Mio. Compared with the USA, a regular swiss person is 4.5x more likely going to buy an iPhone than his friend from America.

That just proves that a higher percentage of the Swiss have better taste than us Americans.

 

[clearchaos]

I ordered from AT&T and Fedex says my 32gb iPhone 4 will be here on the 23rd! i just so happen to be off work on that day, so hopefully it comes!

 

[gorgeousninja]

Apparently there's an iOS 4.0 jailbreak out there already. People are selling jailbroken 3GSs with iOS 4.0 all over Craigslist here already.


I just bought a ferrari and the first thing I did was stick spoilers and stickers all over it, ripped out the engine and stuck a toyota one in... How Kooooooooool is that????

 

[Shumdit]

No they're not. People interested in a Droid have zero interest in the restrictive iPhone OS and App store, and they sure as heck aren't interested in AT&T.

Disagree. I have an iPhone 3G, and a motorola droid, but have 2 iPhone 4's on order. Just because I like Apple does not mean I did not consider android, and just because I decided I prefer Apple's OS does not mean some others would not lean the other way. It's not like pro-choice/pro-life we are debating.