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mescalineeyes
Banned
ThingontheFloor
Member
Same here, never got an email about shipping but out of curiosity, I checked My Orders under the AT&T site and its shipped along with a FedEx track number. Scheduled for tomorrow before 3PM; yay! I was worried because I didnt get my order in until around 8AM Friday morning, and after hearing about preorders selling out so quickly through the Apple site, I thought I was bonesawed.
There's no way to roll out a new map and have it be perfect. Google maps were flaky in the beginning, too. Having hundreds of millions of devices sending data to the servers is the best way to get better fast. Obviously, this isn't going to improve the satellite photos, but then, how many people really care about the satellite photos?
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Apple just sent me a text (on my Android phone) to tell me my iPhone shipped.
so the iPhone will ask every user:
"What street are you on now? (please spell correctly)"
Is river placed correctly? (Y/N)
Where are you now? (please spell correctly)"
"Is the current establishement ?
A: Open
B: Closed for the day
C: Out of business"
mapping correctly does not work by magic, it needs real work by professionals
also, there are loads of government bodies and citizens that do not like millions of devices "mapping" and sending data just like that.
Update iOS / get brand new phone, lose key functionality and it's demonstrably shit by showing how little information it has from the imagery to the lack of even knowing roads are there. It's a disaster no matter how you look at it, and I really don't think people driving down a road it doesn't know is there is going to do much to fill in road names and tell them Woolworths went bankrupt.
What they are starting from is amazingly shit.
Ken Masters
Banned
24hrs till it's in my hand
planar1280
Banned
Satellite data is from a difference source, Driving directions data are from a difference source (TomTom)
I don't see people throwing their tomtom gps devices, do you?
Apple pundits said that about Siri too. Lol.
Maps actually relies more on boots on the ground. Having people just using (or not using & switching to mobile gmaps as planar1280 suggests they do) the apps isn't just going to make it better. Apple needs to, at a minimum, provide an easy way for people to be contributing to the OpenMaps data. Or buy their own GIS company and send out the trucks
FlashFlooder
Member
Anyway to manage your queue (disc) within the updated Netflix app?
Yeah, no shit. You think professionals aren't working on it?
All maps are missing streets, or have streets in the wrong place. Apple's map has more errors than Google's. This was inevitable when they decided to make their own map app. It may have been a mistake to do so, but once that decision was made this was going to happen.
I'm not making excuses for them - I agree it's a bummer. But I'm being realistic. And I'm being realistic when I say it will improve quickly.
just stop.
Mine says it left apple on the 16th, and I won't get it until the 25th :/... there's also no transit updates on the UPS website.. boourns.
"A UPS shipping label has been created. Once the shipment arrives at our facility, the tracking status--including the scheduled delivery date--will be updated."
Hopefully it still arrives on Friday
"A UPS shipping label has been created. Once the shipment arrives at our facility, the tracking status--including the scheduled delivery date--will be updated."
Hopefully it still arrives on Friday
NYR
Member
Google is going to send a code to your phone to have it destroyed.
Comments like these are why people hate people who like Apple.
The_Darkest_Red
Member
FedEx tracking for mine estimates it will arrive September 20th by 3 pm. There's no way I actually get this thing today, right?
it might actually, is the package out for delivery?
Ken Masters
Banned
The Verge review still not up it seems, very odd
The_Darkest_Red
Member
No, the last status update says it was picked up at 1 AM a few states away.
Maybe they don't want to say something that will alienate companies or customers? I keed, I keed.
Empyrean Heaven
Member
Huh, odd, I got my lighting adapters today.
Yes, I said adapters. I need five for my four iPhone docks in the home as well as my Mercedes, because I WILL NOT carry that ugly thing around in my pocket to use with all of them. Steve Jobs would never have approved this abomination.
Yes, I said adapters. I need five for my four iPhone docks in the home as well as my Mercedes, because I WILL NOT carry that ugly thing around in my pocket to use with all of them. Steve Jobs would never have approved this abomination.
NYR
Member
2 rumors:
1) they are waiting until Josh is on Fallon tonight, or
2) they were not given a review phone.
I think it is #2 but if Josh shows up with the new phone on Fallon, #1 it is.
That's why he had to go.
I am tired of everyone saying what Steve would have approved or disapproved.
There's money to be made, y'know.
CliqWriter
Member
I ordered online via Verizon the day that pre-orders launched.
(not at 3am but rather at about 9am when I woke up)
I got my email this morning saying that it has shipped and is in
Memphis TN. But is supposed to be here tomorrow before 3pm.
Mine is shipping through fedex and came with a tracking number.
If this helps any doubts mine just started today but I have overnight
shipping. So it should be here tomorrow.
Oh yeah, I have never owned an iphone and have been bouncing from cheap andriods
for a long long long time.
(not at 3am but rather at about 9am when I woke up)
I got my email this morning saying that it has shipped and is in
Memphis TN. But is supposed to be here tomorrow before 3pm.
Mine is shipping through fedex and came with a tracking number.
If this helps any doubts mine just started today but I have overnight
shipping. So it should be here tomorrow.
Oh yeah, I have never owned an iphone and have been bouncing from cheap andriods
for a long long long time.
Ken Masters
Banned
I think it has to be 2, why would they want to be the last tech site to have the review up on purpose? By the time the review is up millions will have the phone already hours later.
They've had some critical articles on Apple since iPhone conference, something you don't see from major website, so Apple probably got pissed off at them for saying anything negative.
It'd have been cheaper to just wait for the inevitable 3rd party one.
Ken Masters
Banned
I'm also annoyed that Apple isn't making a dock, hurry up third parties!!
NYR
Member
You spelled "car" wrong.
I don't care who approved it, the whole situation is bullshit. $20 cables and $30 adapters suck.
Ken Masters
Banned
Empyrean Heaven
Member
Johnlenham
Member
It's £530.
sush you!
Though the more I look at the more Im tempted to go for the 16Gb on O2 for £31 a month..
I dont even NEED a phone why am I even looking at all this!? Probably because I use the camera loads and the one on the 3gs is bloody aweful.
It's probably been shipped with Overnight (next day) shipping and being held at the original shipping facility. Usally Apple will ship their stuff with a "Future Delivery Date" request, to ensure that it doesn't get to you before the street date.
joeyjoejoeshabadoo
Member
Good luck, you'll need it. Plus a miracle, plus everybody forgetting that Apple is releasing the next iPhone, and you win some sort of front of line pass for just being you.
Yep. Both my phones came to a screeching halt on Tuesday - one in Lousiville, one in Anchorage. I expect them both to get on an airplane tonight, hit BWI before dawn, and get on the truck to DC by about 7. Can't wait to retire my 3GS.
Valkyr Junkie
Member
Is package theft a concern in your area? Do you not normally have things dropped off? I've had probably over a thousand parcels delivered to my doorstep by FedEx/UPS in the past several years with none of them disappearing, so I never am too concerned about pre-signing for the Apple ones. Although I'll still be home tomorrow anyways.
themadhatter444
Neo Member
Early morning AT&T order with guaranteed 21st delivery still processing with no credit card charge or confirmation e-mail.
Kill me.
Kill me.