The pre-orders went live at 2AM my local time, and I get up at 5:30 every day. I stupidly believed I could get a decent delivery time, a week or two behind at the most I thought, if I ordered at 5:30. Ship date: November. Woohoo! Ordered a 256GB Jet Black 7 plus.
Also pre-ordered an Apple Watch Series 2. Given the track record of Apple products' first generations getting pretty significant under-the-hood tweaks later, leaving the first gen devices quickly obsolete (You can't run later than iOS 5 on an original iPad, but the iPad 2 released the next year is on the list to support iOS 10), AND given that I'm not likely to upgrade my watch as often as my iPhone (similarly I went from iPad 1st gen, to iPad Air, to iPad Pro. Other than the iPhone, I'm content to upgrade after a few cycles on other devices), I was a holdoff on the first gen Apple Watch. The new CPU alone was the clincher for me. Just a bit quicker, and worth the investment for me. That's due to arrive in October. My wife ordered a Series 1 several days after pre-orders broke and hers will be here Friday, evidently, that wasn't as in-demand. To be perfectly honest, I'd be happy with the Series 1 (same CPU upgrade after all), IF it came in Stainless Steel. Vanity, thy name is guy-who-spent-a-hundred-bucks-more-for-the-shiny-one.
I have a couple of dumb questions (I've never pre-ordered an iPhone before; I generally just go into the store a couple weeks after launch and there's one available).
1) I enrolled in the iPhone upgrade program this year. My thought process being, it's cheaper than paying outright (you only end up paying for half the phone before you trade it in. Yes, I could sell it; but the convenience factor is nice here. Pay for half the phone, hand it to an Apple employee, walk away with the new one) and it keeps me less tied down to AT&T with the AT&T Next program.
So with that said; if I decided to just press my luck and get in line early at the Apple Store (there's about a 0.1% of me being motivated to do this but, we'll see). Will I STILL be able to 'enroll' and then cancel my pre-order? Or am I somehow 'locked in' because I've enrolled in the upgrade program?
2) Those who have pre-ordered in the past, are those ship estimates pretty spot-on? Is it going to be later than November? Any chance it'll be earlier?
To that kind soul who reads my long post in a long thread and gives me aid, I thank you profusely!