“We are now just one week away from the official launch of the Apple Watch, and by most accounts it seems that Apple has another hit product on its hands,” Kraig Becker writes for Apple Gazette. “But the preorder process hasn’t gone as smoothly as we’ve seen in the past, and a surprising lack of supply has pushed delivery dates back into June. There is no denying that Apple has made some stumbles with the rollout of their new wearable, as the Apple Watch Launch has felt unlike any product release we’ve seen from Cupertino in sometime. Which begs the question, just how did Apple manage to underestimate demand so dramatically?”
“It seems likely that either the company didn’t produce enough Watches, or simply couldn’t produce enough of them,” Becker writes. “Perhaps it is best to look at the April 24 date as more of a ‘soft’ launch rather than a full one. At this point, the real launch date seems to be coming in June, which is when Apple hopes to have solved all of its production woes and have caught up on the backlog of preorders. Still, it is impossible to not feel a bit disappointed in the Apple Watch experience so far.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Production issues can, in fact, be unforeseen. This will all work out (eventually). In the meantime, if you got your Apple Watch preorder in within the first three minutes or so, congrats! You’ll be among the very few with an Apple Watch for quite some time!
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