suddenly newton

sirozha said:

This entire thread is a giant first-world problem. It’s so pathetic to read these posts that I can’t help but think that we are really heading for hell in a hand basket. Especially reading the post of a dude lamenting that he would have to live with his iPhone 8 (!) for a few extra weeks because his iPhone X delivery was delayed by two weeks. 

It’s so sad that we arrived at an era when the life boils down to getting up in the middle of the night to snatch a new gadget that costs over a grand. Can’t get any more shallow. Pathetic!

Sad? I call it progress. I prefer having first world problems to the alternative.

Pray for us. We're going in. Many will not make it back from the Great iPhone X Preorder Massacre of 2017.

MarksG said:

The pre-approval agreement expires three days after it’s been completed. If a pre-app was completed at 4:00 pm on 10/23, it could seemingly expire before 00:01 on 10/27 when the iPhone X can be ordered. That being said, common sense would dictate that this pre-approval process would not have been available prior to its earliest expiration at 00:01 on 10/27. Any confirmation that pre-apps completed on 10/23 remain valid through 10/27? Better yet, when exactly does the three day expiration start and finish?  The most likely case is that the three day clock starts on midnite of the day pre-app was completed, and expires on midnite three days later. What makes zero sense is that for all of us who completed pre-app today, they would expire midnite on 10/26, which would render all pre-apps done today useless. Unless Apple provides any clarity I intend to re-perform my pre-app every day until midnite on 10/26. 

Yes, you do that. Every day until midnight. Let us know how it goes.

Can't make enough to meet demand? Profit shortfall: DOOMED.

Made enough to cover demand? Demand must be soft: DOOMED.

wemclaughlins said:

Please no on the next SE. I'm okay with no home button (though I don't mind it at all, and I don't mind the form factor, bezel and all), BUT, I want Touch ID...on screen is just fine by me. I was excited at hearing the of the possibility of this technology during the rumor stages of the X. As someone who leaves the assistive touch home button on as a supplement to the physical home button, I could see the on screen Touch ID working just like an assistive touch home button. I have no interest whatsoever in another gesture to access the functions that the home button brings like switching between apps, return home etc. I know every time Apple releases a new technology or cuts out old technology they get slammed for being gimmicky, but to me face recognition vs finger print is gimmicky. ...course I still maintain the MBP touch bar and lack of ports as well as the new iPhones' lack of headphone jack as gimmicky. : ).

I remember when the iPhone was slammed for not having a keyboard. It'll never sell to business users, the pundits said. Some startups even tried to sell a physical keyboard accessory. Multitouch is gimmicky, "real smartphones" have keyboards.

I remember when the mouse was slammed for being gimmicky. Graphical user interfaces were called gimmicky. Real computers had function keys. Real users needed them to get work done. There used to be companies that sold keyboard overlays with Microsoft office keyboard shortcuts printed on them.

Touch ID was called gimmicky when it came out. Go back and look in the forums and read the troll posts. Touch ID was introduced not to enable ApplePay (which came later), but to reduce the rash of smartphone thefts, which sometimes included aggravated assault. Oh, but now thieves will cut your finger off, they predicted. But instead, smartphone thefts plummeted and privacy was vastly improved.

64-bit CPUs were called gimmicky. But that didn't stop Samsung from promising a 64-bit "me too" CPU as soon as the Apple A7 was unveiled to the world. Guess it went from "gimmicky" to "essential" as soon as Android had it.

Remember that when Android flagships start promoting some version of Face ID, and everyone expects it as "essential."