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Carrier iPhone 7/7+ T-Mobile Pre-Order Thread

PanAm-L1011 said:
No, I do not see anything wrong with that, nor is your fact anything more than an opinion. Apple or T-Mobile have NOTHING to be held accountable for. NOTHING!

Not counting the carriers, there are 30 different combinations of the new phone. And in the 4 big carries and those combinations turn into 120. That makes it pretty hard to project what is going to be the best selling model, what carrier is going to sell the most, and what is going to be the worst selling model. All they can do is project what their initial sales will look like. They cannot make 6 million jet black iPhone 7s day 1 and hope they sell. This is how business works. You make projections and then deal with reality. You don't leave unsold product on the table. Unsold product = losses. It's Business 101. Supply and Demand - seeing what the Demand is and then fulfilling the Supply. NOT the other way around.

The FACT is they did announce a release date and launched sales for devices they DID have. Many, many people got brand new iPhones last Friday. Mostly those got up early to order online or wait at the Apple Store. Or those that chose the less popular models. This is the way it has worked with nearly every product launch. It's the name of the game. You sound as though everyone who wanted a phone on launch day should get one. That's not how it works.

I thought the phone I wanted 7+ silver 265 GB would be the lowest selling of the plus models, and I'd get it sooner rather than later. Doesn't appear to be the case as I'm still waiting. But, it's not a big deal.
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Lol :D
Keep making excuses. Yes, a company like Apple cannot project sales so they dont have any Jet black devices for sale or iphone 7 plus models in order not to make too many or get stuck with unsold product. LMAO :D
Nothing wrong with this process and they should not be held accountable for anything.
Keep drinking the koolaid.
Everything is nice and dandy:D
 
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bboucher790 said:
Video game consoles have the same problem, as well as other highly anticipated electronics. This surely is not isolated to Apple products. You can hold them accountable, yes, but this is fairly common stuff we're seeing. I remember trying to get a PS2 and Nintendo 64 for months.
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Again, simple - supply and demand. 1st comes the demand, then the supply to fulfill the demand. Not a hard concept to grasp.
 
The worst part is once I finally receive my plus in November, I am going to get sick of carrying it around then switch back to a regular size phone that I could have already had. But, the camera is to enticing.
 
i don't understand why Apple doesn't like T-Mobile. If someone inside the business can tell us what is going on with that, it would be a big story.
 
PanAm-L1011 said:
No, I do not see anything wrong with that, nor is your "truth" anything more than an opinion. Apple or T-Mobile have NOTHING to be held accountable for. NOTHING!

Not counting the carriers, there are 30 different combinations of the new phone. And in the 4 big carries and those combinations turn into 120. That makes it pretty hard to project what is going to be the best selling model, what carrier is going to sell the most, and what is going to be the worst selling model. All they can do is project what their initial sales will look like. They cannot make 6 million jet black iPhone 7s day 1 and hope they sell. This is how business works. You make projections and then deal with reality. You don't leave unsold product on the table. Unsold product = losses. It's Business 101. Supply and Demand - seeing what the Demand is and then fulfilling the Supply. NOT the other way around.

The FACT is they did announce a release date and launched sales for devices they DID have. Many, many people got brand new iPhones last Friday. Mostly those got up early to order online or wait at the Apple Store. Or those that chose the less popular models. This is the way it has worked with nearly every product launch. It's the name of the game. You sound as though everyone who wanted a phone on launch day should get one. That's not how it works.

I thought the phone I wanted 7+ silver 265 GB would be the lowest selling of the plus models, and I'd get it sooner rather than later. Doesn't appear to be the case as I'm still waiting. But, it's not a big deal.
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Just to play devils advocate its not a supply or demand problem its a quantity problem. Apple should have used the pre-order process (demand) to create a more accurate quantity to supply the demand. My only suggestion is create a pre-order a few weeks sooner to give more time to build the demanded numbers. Then again there is the whole game of creating small supply of said product to induce a spike in demand. Like many people have stated with other devices and fashion especially.
 
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uwdude said:
i don't understand why Apple doesn't like T-Mobile. If someone inside the business can tell us what is going on with that, it would be a big story.
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Its not a matter of like, but you have to remember that T-Mobile was one of the last to get the iPhone, and AT&T and Verizon are still the elephants of the industry, no matter what Mr. Legere says.
 
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MacintoshDan said:
Its not a matter of like, but you have to remember that T-Mobile was one of the last to get the iPhone, and AT&T and Verizon are still the elephants of the industry, no matter what Mr. Legere says.
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Yes, but Legere should work to vastly improve their system interface with Apple.
 
uwdude said:
i don't understand why Apple doesn't like T-Mobile. If someone inside the business can tell us what is going on with that, it would be a big story.
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I doubt there's anything personal at play here... sure, it fits the "conspiracy" theme you're sure to find in online forums like this. I think it is safe to assume that Apple's IUP and TMO's JOD clash at times - namely, iPhone releases. If there's any carrier "drama", I bet that's where it starts.
 
vomhorizon said:
Spoke to a member of the executive team who was following up on my email to JL from Friday. My ship date for 7 plus, 128GB Black, was 9/19 - 9/26 and he confirmed that it was still valid but they have not received a shipment of 7 plug MB's in the size capacity. Since i was repeatedly told of 9/19 - 9/20 delivery on twitter and on phone (early on the delivery window) and because they had repeatedly failed to process the work-orders requested to fix my.tmobile so that my order could show up, he did offer to compensate me and I'm happy with that even though I would be carrying around my iPad for the rest of the week starting Tuesday afternoon since my phone ships out tomorrow.
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I'm not following- you ordered a 7+ 128GB Black, which they haven't received and don't yet know when they will, but its going to be shipped out to you tomorrow?
 
Applejuiced said:
Bingo, we have a winner;)
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On the other hand though I live in Houston,TX and there wasn't a single iPhone7+ in the entire greater Houston area for T-Mobile and thats as far as I bothered to search. They could have known that at least one person might want a iPhone 7+ in Houston. It was just a bad launch but stuff like this happens all the time doesn't mean its ok though when they were advertised like they were on sale and available. Simple announcement before launch would have lessend the blow a little.
 
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Idk how true this is, but a tmo rep just told me that Apple tells them their estimated ship dates and thats what tmobile bases ours off of. Suddenly getting my phone before nov seems a lot more unlikely
 
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vomhorizon said:
Spoke to a member of the executive team who was following up on my email to JL from Friday. My ship date for 7 plus, 128GB Black, was 9/19 - 9/26 and he confirmed that it was still valid but they have not received a shipment of 7 plug MB's in the size capacity. Since i was repeatedly told of 9/19 - 9/20 delivery on twitter and on phone (early on the delivery window) and because they had repeatedly failed to process the work-orders requested to fix my.tmobile so that my order could show up, he did offer to compensate me and I'm happy with that even though I would be carrying around my iPad for the rest of the week starting Tuesday afternoon since my phone ships out tomorrow.
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So you know for sure your phone is shipping out tomorrow ?
 
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briwil said:
I'm not following- you ordered a 7+ 128GB Black, which they haven't received and don't yet know when they will, but its going to be shipped out to you tomorrow?
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They had initially said (over the last week) that it would arrive by 9/19 or 9/20. He said that I should get it by Monday, 9/26 but could not narrow down a window since as per his information they had not received these models yet.

As per him, I shouldn't expect anything tonight or tomorrow since they don't have the devices but he still expects to get them, and ship them out (overnight) for delivery at or before next Monday.

Sorry for the confusion, I literally wrote that in 10 seconds. He did compensate by covering by Bill for the month which is a substantial amount so I can't really complain.
 
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