Big shipping delays for iPhone X
Who wants a $2000 iPhone? Everybody, it seems.
Who wants a $2000 iPhone? Everybody, it seems.
Pre-orders for Apple's iPhone X (X as in "ten") opened at 8.01pm last night, but delivery times quickly blew out to five to six weeks.
"Being in the air cost 2 weeks on X order," tweeted Hawkes' Bay man Rod Drury tweeted this morning as he took stock of his reduced situation in life.
Spark says it will have the iPhone X for sale in-store next Friday.
But unless there's a radical departure from previous releases, expect Spark, Vodafone and 2degrees to have a bare handful of iPhone Xs on November 3, and restricted to contract customers. The real launch will come in five to six weeks time.
US analysts say without knowing how many units Apple produced before Friday, or whether any manufacturing constraints are involved, it's hard to gauge whether the shortage is due to logistical issues the unexpected popularity of the new model.
One possibly positive indication is that the iPhone X delivery time is twice that of its predecessor, the iPhone 7, at the same point — indicating more demand if Apple has produced a similar number of units prelaunch.
Certainly, investors took a glass half full interpretation, sending Apple shares up 3.58% (a huge move for a company with a $US842 billion market capitalisation).
The iPhone X — the first Apple handset to feature an edge-to-edge screen, wireless charging and facial recognition logon — is priced from $1800 to $2100. See more on its features here.
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Big shipping delays for iPhone X
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