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Other 🇺🇸 USA - Apple.com - iPhone 15/Plus/Pro/Pro Max/ US Pre-Orders, Orders, and Delivery Status Thread

Are you going to order the new iPhone 15?

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Just got a rescheduled delivery for tomorrow. I know it's unlikely but I wouldn't mind if it happened haha

Edit - this is my wife's phone that is currently in S. Korea
 

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Bananasaurus said:
I use the Spigen Liquid Crystal case. It’s thin and very clear and allows me to still enjoy the aesthetics of the iPhone.
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Oh that IS pretty thin, not quit Peel / Totalee hard clear case thin but nice and thin. And soft. I wonder how it compares to the soft clear cases from Peel or Totalee.
 
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Guys, I have a confession to make...

So, yeah, I have a launch day delivery, which means launch day model + first wave model (in terms of manufacturing)... But there's one teeny tiny catch...

I won't get my hands on it until October 6th. So, exactly 2 weeks after it's delivered.

For the record, I knew about this before the event even happened...
 
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ATX_wapiti said:
These have to be sitting in a warehouse in the US already.
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First 748 with pallets/containers of them just arrived in Louisville, KY this AM. The supply chain on these (and most new AAPL stuff) is direct distribution from FOXCONN (or other manufacturer) straight from China (literally, it is boxed and labeled for end consumer right there/then and even pre-sorted as much as reasonable for quick routing once it clears customs in whatever FTZ the carrier is using).

Very few things outside of accessories or older SKUs with much less/more sporadic demand sit in US warehouses...it's just not cost effective with how expensive, even in the middle of nowhere, US warehouse space, staffing, and the like is (not saying that is good or bad, have zero interest in getting into that inevitably political discussion), it's cheaper to use UPS' logistics offerings with offer way more a just in time model than have to bulk import items, then have US labor do the 3PL work state side, because it's not just more expensive, it's double handling something when you don't need to when the end of the production line can quite literally feed the logistics operation.

That is part of the reasoning behind pre-orders, because the first waves don't have to go through double handling.

When you have the demand to be at-or-near production output (or behind it in this case), it would be leaving money on the table to do anything else.

Wave 1 & Wave 2 of pre orders are the only thing in the states now, and they don't even appear to have cleared customs, yet, still sitting in the KSDF FTZ.
 
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IceCool said:
Guys, I have a confession to make...

So, yeah, I have a launch day delivery, which means launch day model + first wave model (in terms of manufacturing)... But there's one teeny tiny catch...

I won't get my hands on it until October 6th. So, exactly 2 weeks after it's delivered.

For the record, I knew about this before the event even happened...
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Why is that if I may ask @IceCool Just curious?
 
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FlightLevel310 said:
It's very possible they delayed that flight to get your products on from the other flight from CGO.
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So, I've had to work all morning & am just getting to the thread & was already 40 pages behind so I've skipped a bunch. I see that some Wave 2B have left China. I take it we now have a subset of us who are Wave 2C? I'm still sitting in China as of right now.
 
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bmustaf said:
First 748 with pallets/containers of them just arrived in Louisville, KY this AM. The supply chain on these (and most new AAPL stuff) is direct distribution from FOXCONN (or other manufacturer) straight from China (literally, it is boxed and labeled for end consumer right there/then and even pre-sorted as much as reasonable for quick routing once it clears customs in whatever FTZ the carrier is using).

Very few things outside of accessories or older SKUs with much less/more sporadic demand sit in US warehouses...it's just not cost effective with how expensive, even in the middle of nowhere, US warehouse space, staffing, and the like is (not saying that is good or bad, have zero interest in getting into that inevitably political discussion), it's cheaper to use UPS' logistics offerings with offer way more a just in time model than have to bulk import items, then have US labor do the 3PL work state side, because it's not just more expensive, it's double handling something when you don't need to when the end of the production line can quite literally feed the logistics operation.

That is part of the reasoning behind pre-orders, because the first waves don't have to go through double handling.

When you have the demand to be at-or-near production output (or behind it in this case), it would be leaving money on the table to do anything else.

Wave 1 & Wave 2 of pre orders are the only thing in the states now, and they don't even appear to have cleared customs, yet, still sitting in the KSDF FTZ.
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A few years ago I was in Utah a few days before launch day delivery but the phone was being shipped to Maryland, where I live.

The phone was in Louisville (Thursday) and I called Apple to see if I could get it redirected to where I was in Utah. The nice lady said she'd see what she could do.

A few minutes later I got a delivery exception notice from Louisville. I got a little worried at this, but my phone arrived to me in Utah the next day (launch day).

I thought that was pretty awesome.
 
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IceCool said:
Guys, I have a confession to make...

So, yeah, I have a launch day delivery, which means launch day model + first wave model (in terms of manufacturing)... But there's one teeny tiny catch...

I won't get my hands on it until October 6th. So, exactly 2 weeks after it's delivered.

For the record, I knew about this before the event even happened...
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Doesn’t matter. You will always and forever be Mr :01 to us.
 
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bmustaf said:
First 748 with pallets/containers of them just arrived in Louisville, KY this AM. The supply chain on these (and most new AAPL stuff) is direct distribution from FOXCONN (or other manufacturer) straight from China (literally, it is boxed and labeled for end consumer right there/then and even pre-sorted as much as reasonable for quick routing once it clears customs in whatever FTZ the carrier is using).

Very few things outside of accessories or older SKUs with much less/more sporadic demand sit in US warehouses...it's just not cost effective with how expensive, even in the middle of nowhere, US warehouse space, staffing, and the like is (not saying that is good or bad, have zero interest in getting into that inevitably political discussion), it's cheaper to use UPS' logistics offerings with offer way more a just in time model than have to bulk import items, then have US labor do the 3PL work state side, because it's not just more expensive, it's double handling something when you don't need to when the end of the production line can quite literally feed the logistics operation.

That is part of the reasoning behind pre-orders, because the first waves don't have to go through double handling.

When you have the demand to be at-or-near production output (or behind it in this case), it would be leaving money on the table to do anything else.

Wave 1 & Wave 2 of pre orders are the only thing in the states now, and they don't even appear to have cleared customs, yet, still sitting in the KSDF FTZ.
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We were talking about the base iPhones, not the Pros. It seems like everyone who pre-ordered the base iPhones had not seen any tracking movement, unlike all of the Pro models that we have been tracking closely since Saturday.
 
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