“The mad rush to buy the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus is leaving would-be customers without new phones for several weeks as models sell out and wait times for the new phones extend,” Sam Frizell reports for TIME Magazine.
“The iPhone 6 Plus model has sold out in the U.S., and Apple said both the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus are in high demand. ‘Response to iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus has been incredible, with a record number of pre-orders overnight,’ Apple told the Financial Times,” Frizell reports. “As of Saturday morning, the wait time for a 16GB iPhone 6 purchased directly from the Apple store was 7 to 10 business days.”
Frizell reports, “Want an iPhone 6 Plus? It’ll be three to 4 weeks before it even ships.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Or you can line up at your nearest Apple Store in the early AM on Friday, September 19th in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore and the UK.
Oh well; I guess I will just get more use out of my Mophie and other iPhone 5 accessories.
Awesome. My contract with sprint ends in October.
10/21: 5.5/128.
i want to actually hold one in my hand to see if its practical to have a phone that big anyway pre ordering it would be a gamble
I’ve gambled.
My delivery is after Oct 1, but my case should come next week, so I can work out the “pocket issue”.
I’m trying to search out a case myself. Bestbuy usually has crap on release day. Casemate says shipping Monday. I’ll find something. I always wear protection
I ordered Colonel Littleton leather belt loop case. Expensive, but looks like old-fashioned quality.
Same here, I had the the #47 since the iPhone 4 and used it daily till the 5s, and it’s still in perfect shape. But the 6+ won’t fit on it so I just ordered the #49, yeah expensive but lasts forever. You made the right decision.
Suggest by an inexpensive caste from Monoproce and then wait for what you really like. I did that fro my 5 and never upgraded.
Like we couldn’t seen this coming.
Not!
iPhone 3G and on has seen similar launch delays. We not sure about 3G. But the excitement was thick every year.
I was on AT&T 1 min after midnight and I got an oct 13 ship date.
I ordered I min after launch and my current ship date shows: Sept 17-18, although originally it showed Sept 27- Oct 3rd. I ordered 6 silver 64MB. Apparently they have gobs of gold still but silver and space grey are gonesy
I ordered 128 MB gold iP6+ off ATT three minutes *before* official time (their site went live a few minutes early and my receipt shows 1:57am CDT) and got Oct 3-12. ATT often ships earlier than they say, so it may not be that long.
I was surprised with AT&T’s website.. Last time AT&T was a mess, Apple’s site was fine. (the reverse this time)
Was able to order prior to midnight! 1 order anyway.
The countdown page on AT&T’s page was at like 3 minutes, and it refreshed and of course logged me out.. I logged in and proceeded to see I could order.. Got the 64gb gold iPhone 6 ordered for my mom prior to midnight (She got the text from AT&T at 12:00)
I logged into my account right after.. and the site was a little slow.. took me a few minutes to order my iPhone 6.
With the Chase/AT&T mess I went through (Fraud warning BS cause AT&T charged me twice…) My ship date did say Oct 13th-31st.. Today it again says Sep 17th-18th!
Crossing fingers I actually get it Friday!
Finally got through with the Apple Store app on my 5s. By then preorders had been going almost 2 hours, but Apple/AT&T sites were toast.
Wife’s 6/G/AT&T/128 will be waiting for her at the local Apple store on Friday.
My 6+/SG/AT&T/128 ordered at the same time gave me the 7-10 business day delivery estimate. I might go ahead and show up about 6:00 PM Thursday and camp out on the sidewalk anyway. 10:00 PM on Thursday last year for the 5s wasn’t early enough, and I wound up empty-handed. So if I decide I don’t need too much sleep, I’ll be out much earlier this year.
If I snag it, I’ll just cancel my order on the spot.
Temecula Apple Store, BTW, if anyone else here will be going.
I take it back. My ship date NOW reads, “back ordered.”
I ordered the 6 Plus 128GB this afternoon (Sunday). On AT&T’s site they gave me an estimated of Nov 9 – Nov 27.
I then went and successfully ordered through Apple’s site for an estimated delivery date of Oct 14 – Oct 21.
BTW, had tried twice earlier in the week to order through Apple’s site and was never able to complete the transaction, the pages just hung at various points, somewhat unbelievable. I can grudgingly make a one-time exception for the event streaming fiasco, but this has no appropriate excuse and makes me suspect its time for Apple to trim some Bozo’s from the mix.
When millions of people try to pre-order a product, then HTML requests start timing out and pages hang. I can understand your frustration, but the same thing happens with tickets for popular concerts and sporting events, video games, etc.
This (and the streaming “fiasco”) are signs of incredible interest in Apple and its products. While it is nice of you to magnanimously grant Apple a one-time exception, I doubt that the company is worried about providing you with an excuse for anything.
Mine did earlier today too. Now it’s back to Oct 2+
I was on the Verizon website the exact second the preorders started and the iPhone 6 Plus already had an October 14th delivery date. After my order I called Verizon and asked why and they said te amount of orders being put in with Verizon for the phone caused it. I said no orders had been put in when it first went live and asked if they were just making stuff up as her scenario wasn’t possible. She said she was assuming and that I made more sense than she did.
Looks like Apple is allocating phones much more slowly to the carriers than it’s own stores. Understandable. If you want a phone anytime soon – order from Apple directly.
Most carriers have been caught trying to switch potential iPhone customers to other brands. If the carriers were to act more honourably towards Apple, then Apple would not be so compelled to get customers to buy directly from Apple stores.
Apple’s standard response towards untrustworthy or unreliable partners is to minimise their involvement.
I went to my local Bell store (Canada) and held a LG 5.5″ phone. The phone fits in my pocket perfectly and actually feels very nice… I’m hoping the iPhone 6 Plus will feel the same.
Check the dimensions closely. The size of the screen is one thing, but Apple’s casing above and below the screen are usually more than on Android phones. It may still be too tall.
The 6+ is actually closer in size to the larger Samsung Note 3 (a bit taller than the Note 3) than the LG G3. I probably would have gone with the 6+ if it was LG G3 sized.
No lines! Free shipping preorder!
I just crack up thinking about all the people who wouldn’t dare buy an iPhone at 5.5 in lol. I guess everyone’s hands grew over the past year. Lol!!!
Nah, most of those folks probably still aren’t getting 5.5 inch phones. Funny thing about the internet… one person can say “I’D NEVER BUY A 5 INCH PHONE” and another person can happily buy the phone and still, amazingly enough, be TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PEOPLE!?!?! Which yields absolutely no contradiction at all!
Multiply that times a jillion, of course.
And people occasionally change their minds once they see/hold a product and have time to consider the pros and cons…
That is because previous 5.5″ phones were bricks. For example, the Note 2 is 9.4 mm thick and the iPhone 6 Plus is 7.1 mm thick – big difference.
I am going to wait anyway because of our contract renewal.
No big deal.