She had hoped to get the 7, but they weren't available yet... and you can't trust the services in AR to have it shipped, so she went with a 6.
We waited about 15 minutes to get an Apple employee who then helped her choose a phone, then it took 2.5 hours to transfer her stuff from the old phone to the new one. Then, she had to go to a different store to have the SIM card cut to fit the new phone's slot, then return to the Apple store to finish the activation.
This took the entire afternoon!!!
Sheesh... whenever I upgrade my Android phone it takes them all of 5 minutes to do the entire process.
Should’ve gone to a cellular carrier store instead of the Apple Store. They’re more efficient.
This is pure B$.
“We waited about 15 minutes to get an Apple employee who then helped her choose a phone, then it took 2.5 hours to transfer her stuff from the old phone to the new one. Then, she had to go to a different store to have the SIM card cut to fit the new phone’s slot, then return to the Apple store to finish the activation. “
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With my impatience at this type of thing I would have gone NUTS.
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Funny, just upgraded my 5S to a 7.
Took all of 15 minutes, longer than regular mostly because of it being a business account. The data transfer was definitely less than 5 minutes. But then this was a Sprint store.
I will say that our Apple store is always busy and waiting to talk to someone isn’t uncommon, even with 20 or so employees on the floor.
All I can figure is that there may be incompatibilities between the AR and US cell phone systems that were causing an issue. That, or the Apple employee was a moron.
So you brought a SIM card in the wrong size from an unsupported Argentinian carrier, and waited for a large data transfer on a slow, overcrowded WiFi network instead of activating the phone and restoring the data elsewhere.