The iPhone X opened for pre-orders early this morning (just after midnight PT).
In the first few minutes, folks were getting November 3rd ship dates. I’ve gotten feedback from folks who used the online Apple Store, as well as AT&T and Verizon. Some international reports as well, obviously via other carriers. No reports of T-Mobile orders delivering on Nov 3, though that could simply be the small sample size.
About 15 minutes in, the ship dates slipped first to 1-2 weeks, then 2-3 weeks. By this morning, delivery was 5-6 weeks out.
From this Bloomberg article, from yesterday afternoon:
> Given reported production bottlenecks, iPhone X delivery times will be four to six weeks by 8 a.m. New York time and should remain largely unchanged in the following days, said Gene Munster, a veteran Apple analyst and co-founder of VC firm Loup Ventures.
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> IPhone X demand and supply should sync about three to four months after launch, while it typically takes two to three months for a new iPhone to reach global supply-demand equilibrium, Munster added in a note to clients on Thursday.
Take that with a grain of salt, but an interesting projection.
And, if you have plenty of cash and don’t mind soiling your soul a bit, there’s always eBay, Craigs List, etc., with no shortage of locked in price gouging iPhone X pre-orders for sale.
By 5pm today they’ll be shipping the iPhone 11.
I just ordered at 11:00 AM eastern time. It’ll arrive on 24 Nov.
Notice the latest FUD article from the Verge (the Apple Fanboy may be dead) with a very suspect “poll” about where Apple falls compared to Facebook, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon as far as inspiring passion and trust in consumers. Amazon maybe, but Facebook? Google? Microsoft may have improved in the trust department, but passion? Meanwhile, just try to buy this latest Apple failure.
The black 256 was 5-6 weeks at 2:30 PST. Before 2:30 PST the Apple site was so overloaded I couldn’t get my order in
I don’t know, I think the poll is better, as far as it goes, then most. Reads like its methodology is better, at any rate. I think the Apple results go along with my own feelings about the products now: I enjoy using Apple products, but not as much as I did in the past, and very little about their current lineup across all categories makes me excited.
Yea, but we’ve been using Apple products since Apple had products. I don’t read through entire user manuals anymore either. I would think younger, less experienced people still do feel that excitement.
And I still do too, I can’t wait to get the X, it’ll be a big step up from my 5S.
Fair enough. The newness of technology in general has worn off for me.
Without actual sales numbers, you can’t tell what was right. If Apple had their usual production volumes, then this is a very strong sign. However, all of the statements and news pointed to a limited production run.
If you are thee same Ikalliance that I used to see at the MacUser and then Macworld forums, then yes, we’ve been doing this a long time!
I have to confess, I almost bought a X just to resell and make an easy $1k. But I was tired.
I think that as you say below after a while the sheer newness wears off and after you’ve been around tech for a time you know that in 4-5 years whatever is new and awesome now will seem dated and boring.
Add to that, that smartphones have done all of the easily whizzy stuff – size, screen resolution, speed etc. Upgrades from year to year now will be much less radical. But… 10 years ago there was just the original iPhone. We’re spoiled… from that… to this.
lol, yes, that was probably me. I would have been on both those forums. Gosh, long time ago.
Yeah, we haven’t had any big paradigm shifts since that day, everything else has been iterative (and/or derivative) so far. Perhaps an interesting cultural question: some day, when the next huge paradigm shift comes along, will we be excited THEN? Or have any of us gotten to the point where, no, this is the place I’ve run out of gas, and I’m happy right here.
Actually, I guess not so much a cultural question as a personal one.
Bring on a Star Trek like transporter and I may pass out from excitement.
I think there were a few big leaps after the first iPhone in terms of reasons to upgrade – 3g, the App Store and the ability to install and use apps, the 4’s Retina screen and the larger sizes in the 6 series. But since the 6, nothing that’s consumer facing has changed all that much. ARKit and CoreML and other things may well enable very cool new apps that need new hardware to really run well (or at all) but that’s not the phone per se.
When the next thing comes along I’ll be intrigued. I don’t know about excited. But lots of people will be even if they’re not amazed at the start.
I think we’re in a technology capability lull more than anything. I mean, imagine the AR stuff Apple’s shown on stage… in glasses. Pass out some glasses at a party and you can AR game much more naturally. Wear some and you can see things like restaurant reviews floating next to the place. And more I’m sure. But we don’t have the tech to do glasses that can do all of that and still work for the normal person who doesn’t want to look like a weirdo. Will we? Yeah, I’m sure we will unless there are actual physics constraints. But we don’t now.
I was lucky. I had got my Apple Plan order pre-approved a few days ago, and then my cat woke me up at 1:59am CDT. So I got up, clicked 2 buttons, and got my order in for Nov. 3 delivery, then back to sleep by 2:10am.
w00T!
You may want to go see a doctor about that!
I ordered from T-Mobile and got a Nov 3rd delivery date. It is still showing that as of a few minutes ago when I checked. I ordered the 256GB Silver model.
No self-selected poll sample is worth jack. The only time site polls like that are useful is to gauge something about the way that your own site visitors feel. Even then, you have possible bias depending on whether the poll is shown to a random sample of visitors. A poll in an article, for example, will only be shown to people who click and read that article which is a biased subset of visitors.
Scramble my atoms and hurl them across the galaxy? Dammit James, I’m a doctor, not a jigsaw puzzle!
I agree about self-selected poll samples, but I don’t think this was one. They partnered with a polling outfit. I think it was (or claims to be) a legit polling sample.
The Verge still exists? Who knew?
All models are listed as “currently unavailable” now at 8pm EDT.
Fair enough. The newness of technology in general has worn off for me.
I ordered my 256gig Space Gray X at 9:30AM PST from T-Mobile and ship dates are Nov. 3rd to 10th.
Until you realize that the transporter will kill you and some fraudulent copy of you is now living your life.
I heard this “not enough volume” every year I’m so bored. Please stop it. Don’t you know Apple will provide financial report 4 times a year. It’s all answered by that every f_ing year yet ignorant people still think they’re so smart. Jeeezzz.
I have to confess, I almost bought a X just to resell and make an easy $1k. But I was tired.
So you’ll go through all that trouble to make $1? Or did you mean the 256 gig model where you’ll lose $149? How do you deal with the carrier, since there’s no unlocked models available? 😛
The black 256 was 5-6 weeks at 2:30 PST. Before 2:30 PST the Apple site was so overloaded I couldn’t get my order in
It’s not sold out. It’s back ordered. There is a difference.
The Verge just doesn’t seem to like Apple. After the reports of the green screens on Pixel phones it was like, ho-hum they’ll fix it. Apple? Not a chance.
They still haven’t updated their apple watch review after the software fix that the Verge was dying over. Oh well, it was created by topolsky, so there’s that.