re: Official iPhone 6 Unboxing Day Thread (Page 17)

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Finally got through on Apple.com, Apple isn't allowing grandfathered unlimited's to preorder. You have to go through Verizon or wait til 9/19 and try and get one in a store.

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I have a grandfathered plan and was able to order last night around 2 AM. They did not change my plan, and the email states that I still have my original data subscription.

I got up at 3 AM (EST) and it took a little over a half hour to order my phone. This morning I woke up to three emails from AT&T confirming my order. The first two stated that my phone would be send in 14-21 day. The final email indicated an estimated shipping date for my phone for October 13-22.

Did Apple under produce this phone that badly? Why do I see people that ordered after me claiming they have shipping dates in September?

As I said last night every iPhone I've ever ordered has been a royally fricked up experience and this one appears to be no different. At the end of the day it really doesn't bother me to wait for the phone but at some point in time they need to reward loyal customers and those that do the early orders.

I would hate to be someone waking up this morning and ordering a phone. They're probably into a 2015 delivery by now.

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Screw it. I'm gonna go stand in line.

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You won't need to. Show up at a rural [AT&T/Verizon/Sprint] store next Friday when their UPS guy gets there - around 10 am - and you should get one easily. Also Apple stores get new ones every morning.

i just looked at my confirmation email again, it's 21-28 business days

The bullshite surrounding iPhone releases seems to get worse and worse every year.

First the live stream f'up. No worries, just followed a blog

Then the fact that they made the bigger phone materially better. Annoying, but I got over that.

Now, Apple completely FUBAR's the pre-orders. Carrier sites were most likely unresponsive because the people who were expecting to use a functional Apple site fled to the carrier sites.

So people get up early, pound away at whatever site seems to halfway work until they get an order, or a reservation, or an IOU or whatever the hell we're calling these, with non-sensical shipping dates all over the place.

I would expect this from a new company like OnePlus...in fact, they handled their supply chain issues MULTIPLES better than Apple has over the past few launches.

This is waaaay too much fail from a company as big and well capitalized as Apple. I don't know if this shite is even worth it.

/rant.

It wasn't a rant because it was spot on.

I had to send an email to Steve Jobs office the first time I ordered a phone because AT&T and Apple couldn't communicate and realize that I had an available upgrade. For over three weeks I'd order a phone on an upgrade through Apple and then have the order canceled because they couldn't get AT&T to confirm the available upgrade.

I don't even remember what happened when I ordered my current iPhone but it wasn't a smooth and pleasant experience.

Now here we are again and they still can't get it right. At this point they should only give an order date for the phone and not give release dates like September 18th at all because it isn't a realistic date for the vast majority of the orders.

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Did Apple under produce this phone that badly?

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:facepalm: They only initially ordered 60 million to be made. It takes time to make millions of anything.

I got the 21-28 on the Plus I ordered and no estimate on the regular 6.

A guy I work with was successful in doing that through Fed-Ex last year.