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Other 2022 iPhone 14/Plus/Pro/Pro Max/ US Pre-Orders, Orders, and Delivery Status Thread
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I enjoy the engagements to see if someone is the "angel" who will make the impossible happen. When someone says "no", I look for the next person who will say, "yes". So many miracles have occurred after someone else said no.
I love being really nice to these folks, I know how hard they work and that some people are quite unpleasant when they don't get what they want. I've worked where people treated me like **** for their own stupidity, and I make sure I let people know how grateful I am that they took care of me while I was in their store.
I’m still waiting. Mine will probably be much later. Our UPS is usually in the evening here
Did you update or set up as new then update
Wow! That's amazing! So lucky! Woo hoo! Congratulations and enjoy your new iPhone!!!View attachment 2067790I also got to meet the head of Apple Retail who randomly showed up at the Apple Store I was at when picking up my iPhone 14 pro
eSIM was easier than I expected. I thought I was going to have to deal with my carrier, like the old days. Just a pop up in the setup process. Done.
I used phone to phone transfer.
Note that transferring to eSIM on ATT was smooth but it might take a little time. I don't know how long it took because the phone was doing a transfer in the background and I am not sure at what point the SIM transfer was completed.
You can read my notes here:
I was able to preorder 14 Pro Max 128GB black today and can pick it up tomorrow at my local store. Way better than ordering it for delivery, which is now 4-5 weeks away.
Great to hear! Glad you reminded me of the cardsPretty smooth with 2 hiccups
1) Moving the watch (could be user error) - Last year seemed simpler. I had to unpair this year which wipes the watch? Then restore the watch from the backup? I don't remember that.
2) Setting up cards in Apple Pay - definitely a "me" thing, as I didn't have the cards to enter the cvv numbers
Other than that....excellent
Thank you!! Thank you for the hospitality!! I'll see you around in the photos thread
Received, UPS found the vacation house, delivered, and it's restoring. it's a beauty pro max black, amber leather case
I just hope they can manage to do better with that than their other network services. Apple does many things well and reliably. WAN/Cloud services at scale are not and never have been one of them. Only after many years of really absurdly bad services has iCloud come even remotely usable and reliable. I would hate to see the first few years (decade) of an Apple operated network. They'd be better off contracting with Starlink (Globalstar doesn't have the bandwidth and/or constellation to support anything meaningful for at least 5-10 years and Iridium's network is not much more credible in terms of suitability for actual TCP/IP versus store-and-forward type networks like Globalstar and most of Iridium's current offerings, probably not even then as they have no launch relationships of credible worth to compete with Iridium or Starlink).
My guess is that the Starlink-TMo hook up is more talk than reality (definitely in terms of regulatory progress it is) and technologically speaking, it is quite possible but many, many hurdles exist. Good strategy by Starlink to up the ante for any possible tag up with Apple on this, and T-Mo gets to tout it.
It will happen, but I am afraid that we're simply shifting "******, no motivation to do better large company with no incentive to care for individual customers" will simply shift from earth to space
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I just transferred from SIM to eSim on my phone, so I could do direct transfer, and it took about 2 minutes - took out my SIM, restarted the phone, and it’s working like a charm. That never happens.
Have you checked it in dark mode low
Brightness and in a dark cupboard for screen uniformity?