We all are aware of the fact that Apple will be unveiling the iPhone 5 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts at 10:00AM PDT that is tomorrow. It was believed that the iPhone 5 would be available for pre-orders the same day on September 12. The same report of the same day pre-orders is now being contradicted by another incoming report from Macrumors that is making Friday as a favorite day for the iPhone 5 pre-orders to begin. Previously it was believed that Apple would announce the pre-orders the same day the iPhone 5 will get unveiled. However, Apple’s pre-order policies have varied with the passage of time. They never remained consistent.
Following the announcement of the iPhone 4S last year, Apple announced the pre-orders would start at 12:01 AM Pacific Time and the pre-orders never started at the same time. The pre-orders were 45 minutes late.
So forth today, the report from Macrumors stated:
MacRumors is now hearing that pre-orders may not begin tomorrow following the media event and that they may instead start on Friday morning in a scenario similar to last year’s debut. We’re hearing that certain portions of Apple’s sales support team are significantly increasing their staffing levels beginning at 6:00 AM Eastern on Friday, with a major surge for the initial shift beginning at that time and a sustained level of high staffing for at least the remainder of the day.
According to the recent report, the pre-orders for the iPhone 5 are not going to start before Friday. It was highly expected that Apple would announce pre-orders on the same day of the iPhone 5 unveiling as they did on WWDC 12 for the Retina Mac Book Pro’s. Apple at WWDC 12 announced the pre-orders of the newly announced retina MAC Book Pro the same day sales also starting the same day. After seeing that behavior, it was highly expected the pre-orders for the iPhone 5 would begin the same day.
Unfortunately, the iPhone 5 will not go for pre-order before Friday. However, it has also came into consideration that Apple is doing conscription of employees for Friday. It is widely expected that the iPhone 5pre-orders will kick off at 6:00 AM Eastern Time Friday. We can say the expected time is 6:00 AM and the delayed time would be around 6:45 AM Eastern Time (calculated on last year’s delay).
The sales of the iPhone 5 pre-orders would start exactly a week later on September 21, 2012. Don’t be too much reliant on the above-mentioned time or date because you never know when the iPhone 5 shortage starts and the delivery time increases from days to months. Delaying of products has been the worst gift from Apple for its fans.
UpdateX1:
Today on September 12, Apple held its Media Event announcing the iPhone 5 with iPod ‘s Refreshment. The iPhone 5 pre-orders will start on the same date of September 14 as mentioned in the above post.
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