Official waiting up for Apple Watch pre-orders pajama party thread!

[Scoov]

Good for you MTMJR....Apple on!!!

 

[kikazz69]

My bad. Was looking at the discontinued dates. Still 13 months and 11 months is hardly "shortly after".

Will you be getting a watch?

 

[HankAZ]

Will you be getting a watch?

Not this time around.

#272

 

[wittstock]

T - 4 hours

 

[Scoov]

gonna be a long wait....good thing I've got a stack of podcasts to catch up on. Listening to today's DTNS now, then gonna finish up yesterday's MacBreak Weekly with Rene & Georgia (41 min remaining)....then maybe some TMS or Cordkillers action.

 

[AMCTheaters]

So... how many seconds are we expecting the servers to last?

 

[Bill Davis1]

Apple Store is updating already!

 

[scwleung]

So... how many seconds are we expecting the servers to last?

I think we can safely say that the servers will start melting about 5 min before pre-orders start.

 

[John Yester]

Yup as mentioned above. Apple prepping. Store is down

 

[Austin Tooley]

So... how many seconds are we expecting the servers to last?

For the iPhone 6, they stopped working minutes before launch. I wasn't able to preorder until like 15 after from what I remember.

 

[scwleung]

For the iPhone 6, they stopped working minutes before launch. I wasn't able to preorder until like 15 after from what I remember.

You must've been pretty lucky. I remember refreshing for about 40 minutes before I could even get the Apple Store App to connect.

 

[mtmjr90]

My hope is that although demand will outstrip supply, overall demand will be significantly (like very significantly) lower than on iPhone launches and thus the servers won't choke so bad...

 

[Scoov]

so how many devices are you guys going to use to try to complete a preorder? I think I'm going to prep both the web store and the Apple Store app on my 6 plus....debating on firing up the iPad Mini as well.

 

[scwleung]

My hope is that although demand will outstrip supply, overall demand will be significantly (like very significantly) lower than on iPhone launches and thus the servers won't choke so bad...

Imagine if the relatively mixed reviews were meant to control demand in a "so dumb, it's brilliant" kind of way.

 

[kikazz69]

so how many devices are you guys going to use to try to complete a preorder? I think I'm going to prep both the web store and the Apple Store app on my 6 plus....debating on firing up the iPad Mini as well.

I will be using my iPhone 6 plus , Mac,windows laptop, and iPad mini

 

[jtaylorjohnson]

So I'm a lowly shift manager at a coffee shop...not exactly raking in the $...
I'm also a total Apple fanboy, Buy a new MacBook Pro every few years, Have an Apple TV, and have stood in line and bought every single iPhone on day one since the very first one in 2007.
Anyway, I'm wondering on the details of the ordering process.
My dilemma is that I will not have the $ to purchase one until next week at the soonest, but by launch date at the latest.
They haven't specifically stated that the watch will have no in-store availability on launch day. They've only said that at the time being orders are only taken online (until further notice I suppose) and that is the preferred method.
I've always been a "have to have it on day one" kind of guy and kinda bummed out if the store won't have one for which I can wait in line for on the 24th.
I would pre-order one if I could wait to pay for it on the launch day, but I'm pretty sure that's not how it's going to work.
Just wondering if anyone has any more concrete info as it is still fairly ambiguous.
Kinda coming to terms with the fact that I may be waiting a few weeks after launch to get one due to my lack of funds tonight

 

[Gazoobee]

my Apple TV is updating. weird

 

[tmadsen]

I'm wanting a silver sport with white band, against the husband's wishes. I'm suffering through nursing school, and need to get active again, with all the stress weight I've unfortunately gained . Plus, I have to be up early for clinical tomorrow, and was gonna sleep, but I'm kind of unsure, since I'm so excited

 

[Audizine]

Can't wait to play with the watch! I'll be ordering the 42mm black  watch sport. Whoohoo!!!
Thanks pebble watch. You've been good to me. But your time has come.

 

[tmadsen]

They don't usually charge until they ship your stuff, from what I recall. Hopefully you should be set!