iPhone X sells out within minutes overnight (video)

ABC News ^ | October 27, 2017 | By ANDREA MILLER

[Swordmaker]

If you're just waking up, you're too late: iPhone X preorders sold out within minutes overnight.

Apple Add Interest

Today marked the kick-off for iPhone X preorders, Apple’s much anticipated 10th-anniversary edition of its iPhone.

Preorders opened at 12:01 a.m. Pacific Time and 3:01 a.m. ET for those Apple devotees who wanted to be some of the first to get their hands on the phone that Apple's CEO Tim Cook called the “biggest leap forward since the original iPhone” at its Sept. 12 launch event.

While the iPhone X was gone online in minutes, the phone will be available in stores next Friday, Nov. 3.

Here’s what you need to know about the iPhone X:

Apple has confirmed that stores will have the new phone in stock on Nov. 3 and the company is encouraging customers to arrive early.

"Stores will have iPhone X available for walk-in customers," Apple wrote. Stores open at 8 a.m. Quantities of the phone available are unconfirmed.

[dennisw]

Never bought a bullsht overpriced Apple product and never will. Never drank a bullsht latte and I never will. Rules!

[dennisw]

Rush was giving away iPhones today. For the first time ever I heard someone say her cell phone is good enough. iow she turned it down.
But the next caller did accept an 8s

[Chipper]

It’s almost as if they have something else that drives their need to bitch and complain about what other people do with their money. Seems to be the same gammas in every Apple thread.

[Vision Thing]

I love making bank off of the stuportino suckas!

[itsahoot]

But, he gets paid for it, so, it's ok to be shameless.

Prove it.

[Swordmaker]

Rush has always been a HUGE Apple Tech guy. In the past Apple has avoided using him as a sponsor declaring him “to controversial” Are you sure he is a paid spokesman at this point?

He isn’t paid. TigerClaws is just throwing everything false at the wall, hoping something sticks.

[Allen In Texas Hill Country]

$500 to walk into an Apple store to look at their products. Kinda like that :<(((((((((((((((

[Swordmaker]

has facial recognition “upgrade” to permanently put you into the government system of intrusion

You don’t grasp the FaceID Apple uses. It doesn’t ever leave the iPhone X nor does it even use a photo. The government doesn’t have access to anything Apple does on the iPhone. Don’t you recall the big FBI fight against Apple in 2016 for access to a single iPhone 5?

FoxConn is building factories here and Apple already is the only major computer manufacturer which builds computers in the US. The iMac is assembled in Elk Grove, CA, and the Mac Pro is manufactured entirely in Austin, Texas.

[Chronic]

Yes. My first trip to china in 2009, I had just purchased the newest iPhone. If I had an extra there with me could have sold it for more than double the price. I was amazed.

[ctdonath2]

Three was no first-day line for the 8 because the kind of people who stand in line for products on release day don’t want the “sensible” new version, they want the “OMG” new version.

[Not gonna take it anymore]

I have the iPhone SE 64 GB because that is the most memory you can get for that phone. I bought it because of the wallet for Apple Pay. I didn’t want to go to the six or the 6+ or the seven or the gigantic phones. I just want a phone that easily slips into and out of a pocket.

[Enlightened1]

I looked at the prices..

It was $999 for a 64Gb iPhone X

or

$1148 for a 256Gb iPhone X.

Taxes were another $83.

You can add Apple Care too for an additional $200.

The iPhone 8 has the same processing chip without the face scanning software and it’s $300 cheaper.

The way I see it what do these iPhones do that my current iPhone cannot? Furthermore, you can buy a Macbook Pro for the same amount of money.

I will wait until my iPhone 6 dies first before I consider another iPhone. I am very happy with my current phone that is paid off.

[Swordmaker]

Scalpers?..................

Perhaps. . . Someone on ebay is offering $60,000 for a 256GB iPhone X. Hell, if those prices are still prevailing when mine arrives, he’s got it!

[Swordmaker]

My understanding is that it is legal and in a non-us company.

Perfectly legal. The US and California Income Taxes have already been paid on the $250 Billion Apple holds off-shore. They have not played the so-called Double-Dutch sandwich games with their US profits that Google and some other US corporations have played. These are profits that were earned off-shore, but being a multinational corporation, Apple still paid the income taxes here in the US. . . In fact, in most years, Apple is among the top three, if not the number one, corporate income tax payer in the US.

[adorno]

Prove it.

For starters, where does he get all of the Apple gear that he "gives" away for "free" on his radio show? Yeah, I know he can afford to buy them himself and give them away, just to be nice.

Then, he spends a LOT OF TIME talking up the Apple gear, and today he spend an awful lot of time talking up the iPHone X, and the next caller was a 12 year old girl that he "gifted" an iPad to. Guess he bought a bunch of those too to give away, "just to be nice".

He does that "giveaway" of Apple stuff very often, and I've never heard him give away any other brand of smartphones or tablets or PCs.

In any court of law, that would be enough "evidence" to find someone guilty of favoring a brand over all others. And, hey, I don't listen to Rush that much, as I only catch him when I'm on the road making an errand of picking up my grandchildren from school. But, even those few seldom times I've heard him, it seems that he's giving away "free" Apple stuff, and not just to one listener per show.

Apple may not be doing any "official" advertising on Limbaugh's show, but Rush spends a lot more time hyping and selling Apple stuff, than if Apple had paid for a couple of commercials. IOW, Apple is getting a lot more advertising via Rush than from more expensive commercial.

[adorno]

I'm not the only one with the Apple / Limbaugh love affair question:

http://brandchannel.com/2012/03/20/is-apple-a-secret-rush-limbaugh-advertiser/

[Swordmaker]

Your two Forbes Magazine articles by Ewan Spence are summed up by the first comment from a month ago in the comments on the last article:

"A know-nothing fud hacking for crumbs."

Ewan Spence is a FUD artiste in every article on Apple he's written. Not a thing he has every written, something like your posts, has every had a thing positive to say about Apple. Nothing.

I find it interesting you cherry picked articles from a FUD season back in April just before an announced refreshing of the MacBook Pros were due to be released. Typical FUD articles, too. . . a survey of user responses and reviews (one heavily weighted (35%) on number of reviews to date on the soon to be released Apple MacBook Pro announced just one week before the survey, against the reviews of other laptops that had been out for months. Right, sure) and also weighted for price. . . and another from a known Apple FUD writer.

Consumer Reports couldn’t give the Macbook a recommend because of the battery life.

Not true. You claim is outdated and REALLY Cherry Picked, with you ignoring later data from Consumer Reports retracting their no-recommendation report. OOPS, did you not see that, or did you just elect to only report the first report and not the correction? I think it was the latter.

Consumer Reports Now Recommends MacBook Pros
By Consumer Reports—January 12, 2017

Consumer Reports has now finished retesting the battery life on Apple's new MacBook Pro laptops, and our results show that a software update released by Apple on January 9 fixed problems we’d encountered in earlier testing.

With the updated software, the three MacBook Pros in our labs all performed well, with one model running 18.75 hours on a charge. We tested each model multiple times using the new software, following the same protocol we apply to hundreds of laptops every year.

We first evaluated the MacBook Pro laptops in December, and found that battery life results were highly inconsistent from one test to the next. (They ran anywhere from a low of 3.75 hours up to 19.5 hours between charges.) That led the laptops to receive low overall scores, despite strong showings in areas such as display quality and performance.

The fact is that only Consumer Reports found a battery issue due to their non-standard testing. . . . all other reviewers found the batteries on MacBook Pros, professional TECH testing labs such as Anandtech, Wired, Toms, BGR, etc. not the amateurs at CR who are more used to testing washing machines, pillow cases, and bicycles, found the MacBook Pros exceeded Apple's advertised times.

Announcing the 8 and X was a big mistake. There were no lines for the 8. People are waiting for the X and the X is overpriced.

And there are no lines for the iPhone X either. The iPhone 8 sold a record 4 million in the first hour it was on sale for pre-orders in China according to China Telecom. The Chinese consumers have learned the same lesson consumers learned here in the US two years ago when there were minimal lines for the iPhone 6s either and you anti-Apple hate brigade members were crowing the 6S was a failure then, only to see it sell more than the 6 in the previous year that quarter. The lesson? "Why stand in line at a store for hours for something you can have FedEx deliver to your door for free?"

I think Apple under Tim Cook (queer, btw) has lost its way.

Since Tim Cook took over as CEO at Apple three months before the death of Steve Jobs, the revenues of Apple and the market cap have more than doubled.

In your desperation to smear Apple, you are still throwing whatever you think will stick against the wall.

[Swordmaker]

In any case, he took all the time between 2 commercials to tout the benefits of getting the iPhone X, and called it the best phone on the market (and I'm pretty sure that other makers, like Samsung, and users of other high-end phones would disagree). I felt kind of embarrassed for Limbaugh that he would shamelessly use so much time "marketing and selling" Apple stuff. But, he gets paid for it, so, it's ok to be shameless.

No, he does not "get paid for it." You can check the program logs, which are public records. . . and have to include any and all paid advertising included, including times spent on such advertising. You will not find Apple listed because Limbaugh is not paid to advertise Apple. He has specifically stated he does not get paid, but wishes Apple would do so. PAY ATTENTION to facts and quit embarrassing yourself, not others when you post your unsubstantiated false opinions as facts. Especially ones that are so easily checked in public records.

Another point, if Rush's Apple content were "advertising," the local affiliates could legally preempt them with their own advertising. They do not. Ergo, it is content, not advertising.

[adorno]

Have you ever heard of "product placement" within movies and TV programs and reality shows? No "official ads", but, subtly placed advertising.

One doesn't have to be paid "directly" and "on the record" to be compensated. Ever hear of "under the table" payments?

Rush's advertising for Apple is exactly the same as product placement. Apple is one of those companies that a few years past feared being associated with the liberals' worst enemy, Limbaugh. But, Apple did like the number of people that Rush reaches, and so we've had "subtle" advertising for a number of years. How else could one explain the inordinate amount of time that Rush dedicates in his shows to "helping" Apple? Nobody else in the radio or TV industry would ever spend so much time touting the greatness of a product or company, without getting some kind of "benefit" from it.

So,did you notice how others have noticed the same thing I did? Look it up. I provided one link where somebody else had the same question, and that was from several years ago, and Limbaugh continues with the same "not-really-advertising advertising".

[xp38]

It has a notch in the screen....won’t buy it. Sticking with my 3GS. :)