anantksundaram

What’s Fast Company? Who still actually reads AppleNews?

:-D

badmonk said:

India seems more problematic than other countries in working with manufacturers…intrusive, meddlesome and way too bureaucratic.

"Intrusive, meddlesome and way too bureaucratic" is an apt description of the Indian government.

But much more so than, say, China (e.g., privacy), Brazil (all manner of issues), or the EU (e.g., dongles, intrusive taxes) in their own ways? No.

But if the worry is that the volumes sold there do not (yet) justify that expense, I would tend to agree, but that's a different argument.

Just set up my purple Pro Max yesterday. Upgraded from the 12 Pro Max.

It is a fabulous device. Dynamic Island is dynamite.

Apple waits until the time and skills are right. Never in a hurry.

While that pace is frustrating sometimes, you've got to admire the confidence.

Pro Max Purple 256GB.

Pretty much the most glitchy ordering process I can recall form recent times. The ATT carrier discount process was a complete mess, kept asking me to re-input data multiple times. Finally I changed devices (switched to Mac instead of iPad and did it via the website), and it went through. But during that time the delivery went from Sep 16 to Sep 28-Oct 5.

Sigh. One would think that, a decade+ later, Apple had got this thing down... (but, first world problems, I suppose).

Add 1: Saving the data to pre-order just slowed things down (didn't even work, the first couple of times)
Add 2: No email confirmation yet.