I have an iPhone 4 on the way. I checked the shipping history this morning and it actually showed it starting out in China. I’ve never seen shipping history actually start in China and work its way to the United States. Obviously I know most products start there but generally show a state in the U.S. Back to my story. I ordered the iPhone 4, found out about the antenna problem, and didn’t cancel my order. I talked to a friend last night who knows about the antenna problem, and he told me which case he’s going to purchase for his iPhone so the reception problem won’t happen. Are we crazy? What other product would cause intelligent people to act this way? A known defect with the phone but we don’t care. That’s Apple’s power. I continue to drink the Kool-aid. Below is how I feel when it comes to Apple products.
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when i bought my ipad from apple.com same thing happened.
the person at the fed ex station said that apple individually packages each shipment in china and puts them all in a container that is then shipped by fed ex to the usa, where each individual package is then pulled out and processed by fed ex. i would assume that it is cheaper to package the individual shipments in china by $1/hour people than it is in the apple warehouse in the usa by $15/hour people.
so even though the tracking shows that it starts in china, its actually not alot different than if it started from the usa at apple’s warehouse.
by the way, i keep seeing all these people saying how over priced and usless the ipad is, but i really like my ipad and would purchase it again at the same price. i am thinking of jailbreaking my iphone so i can install mywi – to be able to access 3g data on my ipad without having to pay at&t 2 sets of data charges. beyind that, i am quite happy with my ipad and iphone.
Good point Bruce.
Karl,
My son and a few of his friends have not had ant reception problems with their iPhone 4′s. Also, prior to receipt my son’s tried to replicate the problem at the Apple store at La Cantera, yet could not. Based on this information I don’t consider the reported issue a big problem.
Good to know Vernon.
I was in the Apple store in Raleigh last night at 8 pm. The store was absolutely packed, while the rest of the mall was typically slow for a Wed night. 32 gig wi-fi Ipads are on back order, and the tables with Ipads and Iphone 4s had waiting lines to demo.
I heard several glowing accounts of how fun the Ipad was. I must admit I liked it myself.
I changed my mind about shorting APPL after that…
I like shorting bad companies, not good ones. Selling Apple is one thing but shorting it is risky. Too many bad companies out there to be shorting Apple. I just received my iphone in the mail.