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All iPads Who's waiting up to pre-order?

Sissyboy

Sissyboy

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I'm going to pre-order the new Air if I don't fall asleep first.

Anyone else waiting up?

I have the SG 6+ and a black iPad Air, but I think I will order a white iPad this go around.

I will post back when the iPads are available at the Apple Store.
Please do the same if you are willing.

TGIF
 
I'm waiting too. Been staying up this late lately so it's not too bad. Just hoping since the store hasn't been taken down that ordering will start on time.
 
i'm here. This will be my first iPad 🙂 I bought the first retina iPad (iPad 3) but returned it quickly because it was too unwieldy. Hopefully the iPad Air 2 will be better. Luckily I'm in California, so its not too late for me
 
I don't like that they are being so vague. "available for pre-order tomorrow" "shipping next week" these things are coming from china and they must have a better idea of when we can order them and when they'll be available in stores a week out. I hope I'm not staying up for nothing because I'd like to order my Air 2 in 22 minutes.
 
I've never understood why a multibillion dollar company has to turn off their website completely to sell a few new products anyway. Maybe 10 years ago. Surely by now it's just a ritual performed in the name of maintaining the RDF.
 
The iPad Air is so much better than the 3 and 4. The Air 2 should really smoke the 3 and 4.

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pog27 said:
I don't like that they are being so vague. "available for pre-order tomorrow" "shipping next week" these things are coming from china and they must have a better idea of when we can order them and when they'll be available in stores a week out. I hope I'm not staying up for nothing because I'd like to order my Air 2 in 22 minutes.
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As long as they are not making them in the 6 plus factory we should all be good. 😀
 
I'm up and waiting, too. I'm really excited! I can't wait to have a big, beautiful screen again (been using a Mini and rMini for two years now). I'm hoping we can order soon so I don't fall asleep.
 
I'm at the ready, but I'm thinking we might be waiting til sometime later in the day. The vague language about the pre-order time has me a bit concerned.
 
mcdj said:
I've never understood why a multibillion dollar company has to turn off their website completely to sell a few new products anyway. Maybe 10 years ago. Surely by now it's just a ritual performed in the name of maintaining the RDF.
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My guess is they're ramping up instances/servers to increase the scaling needed to handle the first-day traffic, which means they need to push/clone their code/assets that may take a bit of time. It is best to do this when there are no open connections to the store/database, which would reduce the time needed to push changes to all instances. After the traffic dies down, there is no point to have extra servers running, it costs money and it is energy-inefficient, which is why they shut them down and repeat the process each time after each major product comes on the store.

We're not talking about a few thousands of users rushing the site, we're talking millions of folks at the same time, each person has to log in, authenticate, add/modify/confirm credit card information, etc, and so on.

Also, they're only doing this for the store, the other parts of the website stays up just fine, so they're not turning off the website completely.
 
MikhailT said:
My guess is they're ramping up instances/servers to increase the scaling needed to handle the first-day traffic, which means they need to push/clone their code/assets that may take a bit of time. It is best to do this when there are no open connections to the store/database, which would reduce the time needed to push changes to all instances. After the traffic dies down, there is no point to have extra servers running, it costs money and it is energy-inefficient, which is why they shut them down and repeat the process each time after each major product comes on the store.

We're not talking about a few thousands of users rushing the site, we're talking millions of folks at the same time, each person has to log in, authenticate, add/modify/confirm credit card information, etc, and so on.

Also, they're only doing this for the store, the other parts of the website stays up just fine, so they're not turning off the website completely.
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But the store is still up, which hasn't ever happened before, not to mention earlier today.
 
Lobwedgephil said:
But the store is still up, which hasn't ever happened before, not to mention earlier today.
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Apple never announced what time it'd be for sale, just on 17th. So, we don't know anything right now. I do recall one time they made it available in the afternoon, not after midnight.
 
I wish they did it like last year. No pre-order, on launch day orders started at 3am eastern for store pickup that day or ship to home. Much easier process.
 
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