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X is in stock at Apple Store.
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No it does not. The installment agreement doesn't even begin until the phone is activated.
Well we got played my fellow tech heads. I said from the beginning it would be interesting to see what happens the Monday after the release, I was wrong, it happened earlier...lol
NY stores, especially the boroughs have both Space Black and Silver available for pick up, no delivery but pick up. This is Apple playing the hype game and seriously its a little annoying because were a bunch of suckers for even playing into it if you really think about it. Either way I’m pretty happy with my silver X because I did get to see em both up front yesterday and even though the black is crazy to look at I feel the Silver was just honestly to nice not to buy..lol
Well here’s to another Apple event where we all over played and over thought everything and just the very next day there are phones to be had.
NY stores, especially the boroughs have both Space Black and Silver available for pick up, no delivery but pick up. This is Apple playing the hype game and seriously its a little annoying because were a bunch of suckers for even playing into it if you really think about it. Either way I’m pretty happy with my silver X because I did get to see em both up front yesterday and even though the black is crazy to look at I feel the Silver was just honestly to nice not to buy..lol
Well here’s to another Apple event where we all over played and over thought everything and just the very next day there are phones to be had.
I just wanna buy another because they have so many
I think some of you need to put away the tinfoil hats. Anyone that reserved a phone yesterday for walk-in, lost it last night at 9 local time. I know at the store I was at, there were probably 150-200 people in line and probably 50 of them left when they got the reservation. That accounts for at least some of the stock
Regardless of that, Apple never claimed shortages, analysts did. While I agree, they certainly could have handled it better on launch day (I waited 8 hours in line, got there at 7:40 am), I do not think they are creating some sort of artificial shortage, or shortage hype. They had already built more than enough hype. And why is plenty of stock a bad thing for you the customer? Are you only interested in buying it if it is scarce? I only wish I had known it would be this easily available today so I did not have to wait in line yesterday, but I got to spend 3 hours with my wife without kids, so in the end, it was time well spent for me.
Regardless of that, Apple never claimed shortages, analysts did. While I agree, they certainly could have handled it better on launch day (I waited 8 hours in line, got there at 7:40 am), I do not think they are creating some sort of artificial shortage, or shortage hype. They had already built more than enough hype. And why is plenty of stock a bad thing for you the customer? Are you only interested in buying it if it is scarce? I only wish I had known it would be this easily available today so I did not have to wait in line yesterday, but I got to spend 3 hours with my wife without kids, so in the end, it was time well spent for me.
I just canceled my wife’s 17-24 delivery. Was able to get a pickup date for today thanks op. You can see if there are any available for pickup when you choose the phone. You can click on the available for pickup today and see what stores have stock.
Are you able to cancel the pre-order? If you can then those att next plan you choose also gets canceled.
That's the carriers being annoying, they will tell you it takes 24 hours sometimes, but in order to reserve you need them to release the upgrade.
Just canceled my Nov 17-24th Apple.com order that has had no movement, and re-ordered for pickup at noon today! Plenty of 256 Space Grey in stock in Phoenix metro area!
If i recall correctly Apple never claimed the X would be scarce. Others hyped this up and we all hoped on the bandwagon. I thought it would be scarce based on previous iPhone launches but the fact that Apple released the X to over 50 countries on launch day showed supply was not as scarce as predictions I think it’s a great thing that people can walk into the stores after launch and get their phones. We complained in the past when there wasn’t enough stock, now there is and we still complain. 
It's true Apple never literally said there was a supply shortage BUT it did say it had an order/supply imbalance at last Thursday's conference call. Also launch day delivery went from to 3-4 weeks in the span of 8 minutes at the start of pre-ordering; many people couldn't get into the Apple Store at the start; Apple reported orders would take 5-6 weeks most of the week only to get lowered towards the end. But even with this time improvement Tim Cook warned customers to get to stores early, which I think a reasonable person could infer as there wouldn't be a lot of walk-in supply.
I don't think it's such a far stretch to read between those lines of Apple supplied official-speak. Apple said nothing to calm "fears" of weak supply, nothing in the way it had enough walk-in supply at it's biggest volume stores to last part of the launch weekend. It wanted the lines and chaos. I don't know why because the X is a great phone and it's quite able to speak for itself without the circus. Please, Apple is a smart company capable of the most sophisticated computer sales estimations. Let's not pretend it's a mom and pop organization run on QuickBooks.
So yeah, now when many stores have good supply people are wondering. Historically, Apple has always had decent iPhone supply all launch weekend for most generations.
I’m going to Bridgeport today at 11:30 to get mine. Verizon 64 GB silverIt's just shy of 0630 here on the west coast. I checked stock in Apple stores for Verizon and AT&T...every store within 200 miles of me (Oregon) has both configurations and colors in stock today. I will agree with above post that the shortage appears to be somewhat made up
