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Just got my shipping email and in the slots where there should be info like it does every years it says null.

What does null mean?

Literally I know what null means but in this case.
 
Sounds like there's something wrong with the code that is utilized to insert that info into the emails before they're sent. The data/variables that it's trying to insert have no values, so it displays "null". Given Apple's website issues recently, I'm not surprised.
 
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Just got my shipping email and in the slots where there should be info like it does every years it says null.

What does null mean?

Literally I know what null means but in this case.
Mine is the same for my phone number info. Hopefully just a bug with the mail notice.
 
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In this household, at least, it means “my wife’s husband’s common sense.”
 
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Will it have problems activating or using? Or just an email bug
 
Null is a computer term for the concept of nothing. So it can normally be on of two things, no information or there was an error in the program that created the text and when all else fails it just puts in null.
 
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Like noted above, "NULL" is a programming concept which represents nothing. If a value (such as a customer's last name) is expected, but not provided (for whatever reason), it may be represented as "NULL" in the database. This is a programming mistake. Code would normally expect "NULL" and account for it. Or, more likely, it was expected that the information which would be populated into those fields would *always* be present, but for whatever reason (e.g. a bug associated with the original data collection), it is not, so the code ended up using "NULL" as the values (converting it to text and somehow ending up with "NULL"). Or there's just a bug with the software that was designed to collect those values. They exist, but something went wrong. And you ended up missing it in your email.
 
It means you better get used to whatever phone you currently have. Sorry.

jks this happened to me with a case delivery, it's probably nothing just an email issue. so long as your order page looks correct you'll be fine.
 
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