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Title: iPhone 6 preorders plagued with problems Post by: HCK on September 14, 2014, 09:00:19 pm iPhone 6 preorders plagued with problems
<article> <section class="page"> <p> If you preordered an iPhone 6 or 6 Plus (http://www.macworld.com/article/2457734/iphone-6-and-iphone-6-plus-what-you-need-to-know.html) without any trouble last night, congratulations: You were one of the lucky few.</p><p> Apple, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon began taking orders for the new phones, which hit store shelves Sept. 19, at 12:01 a.m. Pacific/3:01 a.m. Eastern. The process is the same as it always was: Stay awake (or wake up insanely early) and spend an hour trying to get through the ordering process without punching your computer in frustration. But this year, preordering the iPhone was especially infuriating.</p><p> The Apple Store was reportedly down for up to two hours in some parts of the country—same for Sprint and T-Mobile. Verizon and AT&T’s sites were spotty. Some customers preordered without a problem, while others couldn’t add the phone to their carts. Verizon and Sprint were battling each other for your iPhone 6 with competing deals (http://www.macworld.com/article/2605360/verizon-sprint-announce-competing-iphone-6-deals.html), which may have increased demand.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2605880/iphone-6-preorders-plagued-with-problems.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: iPhone 6 preorders plagued with problems (http://www.macworld.com/article/2605880/iphone-6-preorders-plagued-with-problems.html#tk.rss_all) |