5 months agoPurchase of an iPhone 14 Pro (256 GB, Black) went smoothly at 8:10 a.m., except that my Apple Card was rejected twice and I had to switch to AMEX. Not the first time Goldman Sachs has failed me while the clock was ticking. Delivery due 9/16.
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Did you REALLY wake up at 2 AM Eastern? I assume you then went back to sleep for 5 or 6 hours…. Which I’m now going to do for about 2 hours.
Sacto Joe
Oh, and I pre-set up my order. Even so, it still took me 11 minutes and SEVERAL logins to clear all the hurdles.
Nighty-night.
Phil, if you swipe down from the right there’s a clock icon. World Clock is in there. I use it several times a day to plan calls to EU, Africa, Japan & Seattle. At Air Cargo Inc we had walls of clocks set to various cities. Kinda cool.
Well, November is a time for Thanksgiving, for recovering from the Apple October Event AND Q4 and FY 2022 earnings report, which I think will be quite good, a barometer of things to come in Q1. If you were holding sizable AAPL shares, your dividend would arrive by end of first week in November. Or perhaps some well timed options plays could put a few extra dollars into the kitty.
I suspect a nice self gifted iPhone 14 Pro would be much more tasty than a few Pumpkin Spice Lattes (btw, SBUX is -24.2% YTD, -25.3% 1 yr., vs AAPL -11.4% YTD, +2.1% 1 yr.). Then you can angle for adding a new Apple Watch for Christmas. See, that wasn’t difficult.
LOL
For example, I have Los Angeles first for Pacific time zone, had Las Vegas (now deleted) and NYC for Eastern Time Zone. I added Cupertino and moved it below LA. I also include London, Amsterdam, Manila, Perth, Singapore, etc. At a glance and scroll you can see a vertical wall of time zones, perfect for coordinating Apple order thresholds or following the LA Dodgers on their next road trip, adding MLB cities as needed. Very handy.
Huh, wonder what happened. Do you have your GS Apple Card in your Apple Wallet and tied to Apple Pay and could your order have been paid with Apple Pay instead? That would have been via FaceID or double press power button, so easy, still accrues cash back on Apple Purchases and eliminates any card number entry issues. I’m assuming there’s a sufficient credit limit on your GS Apple Card.
iPhone Pro Max Purple with 1 TB storage delivers Fri, Sep 16 by Standard Delivery!
It took 12 trys with the Apple Card before it went tru at 8:12 AM
App refused to complete the Apple Pay transaction. But worked fine on Apple dot com.
OTOH, imagining MILLIONS of people placing tens to hundreds of millions of orders all within the same initial hours gives one pause and delight simultaneously! The fact that some had to try multiple times to get your order through and processed underscores the steely resolve and (precedented) demand that Apple users have for new Apple Products. Indeed, an Apple order delayed (even by minutes or hours) is not an order lost or switched, merely reinforced.
I can only imagine the War Room at Apple Park where hourly tabulations of orders from various countries’ and regional websites are being recorded, processed, sent on to suppliers for production earmarks, and the algorithms are returning shipping dates and future production capacity and utilization.
A daily briefing goes to Tim, Jeff, Luca, and Deidra, and I suspect smiles, calls, FaceTimes and real time production coordination is the result. Well oiled machine.
I’ll bet this isn’t a problem Samsung has.
It seems to me that Apple crammed more than $50 of new features into the Ultra. Either it should have been priced higher or the steel watch should have dropped.
Also, the trade-in values are terrible. My two year old Stainless goes for $125 but my brother-in-law was offered only $154 for his one year old Series 7 stainless.
I had the Apple Store app open on both the iPad and iPhone at the can’t wait screen. As soon as the app allowed interaction I completed my preset order.
We are both on the upgrade program. I would like to get out of it in some ways ( there is forced AppleCare for one), but I would still be on the hook for the balance and it would be on me to somehow convert the old phone into the cash to pay off the loan. The program is pretty sticky.
The fail is in Apple’s order entry system’s inability to handle the volume. Scaling that system to handle any, and all, launch days just isn’t warranted (financially).
I’m going to try to be first in line at my local (1.5 mile distant) Apple Store on launch day. If that doesn’t get me one I’ll forego it until November (birthday).