Sellouts! Fans snap up iPhone 6 Plus pre-orders to avoid store queues Apple's online shop fell over at midnight, Pacific Time, when it opened for iPhone 6 "pre-orders" – what Apple calls orders for its first shipment of new things. Also as expected by anyone sane, the first batch of iPhone 6 Plus devices sold out quickly, so any further orders of the larger model are delayed, conveniently …
There are literally hundered of cases for iPhones that don't have the Apple Logo on display.
There are even cases for Samsung phones that have the Apple Logo on sale in some places.
Cases for phones? Meh.
Apple will sell million of phones and generate a few billion $$$$ in profits. How many S5's did Samsung sell in the first week?
To me this is all moot as my Nokia 6310i does what I need from a phone but it is interesting to watch the Android and Apple camps slaggin each other off at every opportunity.
Phone cases at Dawn perhaps?
Seconds out round 2 Ding.
'Hmm, buying an Android phone somehow gives you "different" status?
You are indeed different, and in need of some remedial math.'
If you look carefully you will see that buying an Android phone gives you a very wide choice, including of size, price, style, manufacturer.
Spot the difference now? The difference between being able to think differently and 'think different' (Jobsian Newspeak for all think the same).
Remedial maths, anyone?
Remedial spelling?
The death of Ian Paisley and the noise about the Scottish referendum have drowned out the pre-release of the new iPhone so much so that Apple didn't even make the BBC news.
Next weeks release will be the day after the VOTE so I doubt even the queues of fanbois at the Apple stores will barely get a mention on the news.
To all in Scotland, please vote for independence, go for it and save us all from having to see the fanbois collecting their phones and whooping out loud and running down the road to get mugged. Some events have a real silver lining.
Oh and then we can finally change to clocks so that we get lighter evening in the winter.
If the web site outages are not part of some marketing scheme then they truly have poor engineers working in Cupertino to have such access issues time after time, year after year.
Just checked the Apple site. The $949 model turns into $1,400 by the time you add on AppleCare and charging cords.
That's a pass for me.
The $949 model turns into $1,400 by the time you add on AppleCare and charging cords.
One can surely marvel at Apple's overall ability to suck dollars out of users, but it still staggers me to realize how many of them are still buying Extended Warranties.
Even the most uninformed shopper these days knows that such things are primarily just a very large profit margin for the companies selling them; predicated on the assumption that a) most of a particular product won't fail, or b) most of a particular product's purchasers can't or won't bother to try and claim money from it.
But hey, once you've paid them just shy of a grand, what another $100 for the privilege of paying them another $79 if you break it?.
"If the web site outages are not part of some marketing scheme then they truly have poor engineers working in Cupertino to have such access issues time after time, year after year."
Poor engineers, likely. Products way below what they're cracked up to be, as any actual engineer quickly detects.
But marketing scheme? Yes.
A vast underground Orc-dom of marketbois selling Emperor's New Clothes for all they're worth. Which isn't a lot, actually.
"The $949 model"
This is th 6.5" 128GB model. Probably excessive for most use cases, but hey, I am sure you are one of these.
It costs $1048 with AppleCare. Exactly what did you spec. out to add another $350 ??
And curiously, just why do you need to purchase items already included in the box?
Or perhaps you are just a troll.
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Might have something to do with several million people all trying to access it at the same instant. I suppose you think you'd be able to make it crash proof against that type of load spike? Unless you work for Google or Facebook, I think you'd be wrong.
The Reg's Apple coverage gets more ludicrous all the time. Tired and bitter journalists brow-beaten into churning out articles a company they loathe, sighing and trolling their way through a few hundred words of click-bait to stir up some frothing commentards into a lynch mob.
Seriously, Reg, if you're really that bored of Apple and everything they do, then don't cover them. Take the hit on the advertising revenue and go back to being the ascerbic but fair-minded high-quality news source that you always were in the past.
love the complaints about buying apple.
I will continue to drive an old 2nd hand ford mondeo, shop at lidl and buy apple if i fancy. No regrets over many apple purchases so far.
I will roll my eyes at people who are too posh for lidl, drive a new car, drink fancy coffee etc.
Big screen iphone sounds very nice...fancy apple watch looks great...
Too busy at the moment having fun hacking a raspberry pi, hhvm on digital ocean wordpress droplet and going surfing with the kids at westward ho...
I was under the impression that the iPhone 6 would launch and would be on sale until an iPhone 7 appeared - a period of potentially 18 months. Only chumps preorder or queue up to buy a device without knowing what it will be like.
We saw with the iPhone 4 that phones can look very lovely and yet have crippling issues in the real world. Would it kill anyone to wait a month to see if the iPhone 6 partly justifies its enormous price tag by at least working properly?
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