So what is yor answer, let the rest of the world wait until everyone in the US has their phone? Can an international company survive that way? And how would they know how many people would order the first day, or the second...Incidentally, Apple is already delivering on orders they scheduled for delivery 10-17 days from now.How could Apple start selling 6 in China when they can't even meet preorders here? Same old story I guess...believe the hype, not the reality.
It doesn't work that way, Apple need to secure orders world wide then work on getting them out to customers which they do efficiently.Guess I'm just old school and simple minded. If I'm making serving and don't have enough to fulfill my present orders, I'm going catch up before looking for more orders. Especially if people are waiting in lines for something that doesnt exist yet.
Very efficiently. As I noted else where, deliveries are already being made to wait listed customers, with two weeks cut off the waiting time. But in this case, OP is not the customer, Target is and we don't know how Target chooses to distribute the stock they receive and how they prioritize which store gets what and when. And Target, like other resellers is also trying to sell competitors products that have a higher profit margin than Apple allows them. Not hard to see the business model here. It's why I always buy direct from Apple although Verizon & AT&T have big enough Apple footprint to appear to get better response to their orders. But with resellers, well, they aren't making money off the phone use, but still have to up front the purchase cost, I wonder about their national distribution plans. They are trying to maximized walk-in traffic, get you in the store so you spend money there. This is how modern businesses, retail in particular, are modeled.It doesn't work that way, Apple need to secure orders world wide then work on getting them out to customers which they do efficiently.