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alright guys and gals this is kind of a little bit of extra apple bite content that we want to throw out you it's been less than 24 hours since the pre-orders of the iPhone 10 dropped so much stuff so much news and just things came out of that so we wanted to kind of give you a little wrap-up we like to call it the aftermath of the iPhone 10 pre-orders keeping it with the Apple bite family so what I wanted to first talk about right let's talk about the winners and the losers of the pre-order night now first of all the winners has to be the carrier site so we're talking about Verizon AT&T t-mobile when I was on Twitter and I was just waiting for my apps we know that historically the Apple Store app has been the best and easiest way to get any Apple pre-order on launch well that wasn't the case at all in fact it was probably the worst option to do this time around and the carrier sites were the winners we know that Verizon opened their store like 5 to 10 minutes before the 12:01 midnight time and so everyone that was on Verizon was flooding them I got all these messages like I got mine on November 3rd I got mine like everyone is happy that went through the carrier site so now what I did is strategically I had web browser on the Apple Store I had a web browser on AT&T and then I had my devices using the Apple store app the thing about is the Apple store app on my devices didn't even turn over after 15-20 minutes I I quit them force quit them i refresh them the Apple store app just didn't work and seem to be in most cases for most people the last thing that flipped over I know there were plenty of people that said oh my gosh I didn't realize how lucky I was like I just got through the Apple store app right away but that wasn't the case for everyone so without a doubt the winners were if you went directly through a carrier site most of those people were the winners of the iPhone 10 pre-order now we talk about losers yeah it's got to be people that did the Apple Store app we're just 10 minutes and we knew this thing was gonna be super hard to get 10 minutes into the pre-order if you didn't get in front of those 10 minutes you are instantly gonna get an iPhone 10 pre-order that said delivery time of two to three weeks if you were after 30 minutes the delivery times that most people said they were getting was 5 I was 4 to 5 weeks and then let's not even talk about if you're here in the u.s. fine those were that's how long out you would get your phone out you know at least you got one if you're in the UK an Australian the wait time was five to six weeks weeks my friends like that's a long time so I told you everyone was saying oh you're trying to hype this up this is gonna be shorts this was the hardest iPhone to get on launch day a lot of people though that did get through the system some of the some of the winners were also people that chose to pick up their phone in-store some of those people were able to actually expedite their time that might have said two to three weeks pick up an option in-store so it really looks like to me Apple is trying to supply the physical Apple retail stores and the physical carrier stores first and then online orders this time around kind of took took second so there was a whole bunch of different experiences some people even had message that said Oh call us back we have your order number but you need to complete the order later I was just lucky enough I got into a tease web site and so first of all my very first order that I did got it through one of my web browsers on the Apple Store app turned over like eight to ten minutes later I got a phone that's out two to three weeks but I'm like I this has got to be better so because I had launched all these browsers the AT&T store put me in a queue and I was waiting for around 15-20 minutes but once I got in they gave me the option to get an Apple iPhone on November the third so I pushed through that and we'll see what happens which phone gets here first but I was able to seal an iPhone 10 256 gigs we'll talk about that in a second through AT&T on November third twenty minutes after the time so we'll see what gets delivered and how that plays out I know we have so many experiences I want to see and read about your experiences if you just put some comments down here on the youtubes or if you want to tweet us or email us at Brian Tong as my Twitter the Apple by that cnet.com is where you can send us your email responses um we want to know like what your situation was like but then it also I think that you you come out of this you you get all involved in the hype and it's all exciting and you come back the next morning and I don't know about you but when I had to look at that price point of like over a thousand dollars and let's be real Apple didn't offer 128 gig option and instead knew that most people that take a lot of pictures and photos were gonna force themselves to jump up to the 256 gig storage model and charge an additional hundred fifty dollars look they're running a business and we choose to buy that or not but I thought that that to me that's a bad apple right there like just knowing like that's they could have just put 128 in the entry level they could have it would have cost them little to nothing but they didn't they're like no we're gonna push you higher to me making that option I know a lot of people that once they saw that 256 gig price point they said you know what I'm walking away from this they're probably smarter than all of us they've walked away from paying for an iPhone that much just just to get that extra storage but like I said you know we weren't waking up this morning I think you know some perspective here is important we are all I talk about this all the time but we're so blessed and lucky to be able to buy a phone like this and you can have the argument that your phone is now your computer it does a lot of things that your computer can or can't do and your computer does more but I think personally I felt icky I felt kind of gross seeing a 111 49 price point on a phone plus tax and I did buy it I bought it for the show you know I am an Apple fan I'm a tech fan and I bought it but I still felt gross about it like I felt icky about it and I think part of it is also when you put this in a perspective like think about and I'm not trying to be like hey everyone you you should feel bad about your purchase cuz a lot of you don't but think about everything that has been going on around in this world lately with the natural disasters that you know the attacks and you're like I'm dropping $1,000 on a phone like that just didn't sit right and I know that this maybe this is just me speaking but I know that there's other people that feel this way and I just think about like how much more does this $1,000 phone really do compared to the phone that we have today like it's gonna look awesome that's great but how much does it really really do to warrant that price and you know you have to think about both sides the coin the fact that I know many people who are tech diehards that looked at that price and walked away tells me something and it speaks to me and so I just wanted to offer perspective people that want to say like oh if you want the phone you can afford it that's fine you can pay whatever you want I'm never telling you how to spend your money but I know there's a lot of people out there as well including me that just felt maybe maybe it's just my mood today but just felt a little icky and gross about buying the iPhone 10 and just dropping that much money it just didn't sit that right with me so you know what we'd love to hear your comments we just wanted to kind of talk about what happened the iPhone 10 pre-order was as difficult as I thought it would be I didn't hypebeast it up like it really delivered on all of it you know the scarcity of it how hard it's gonna be there's people that are now pre-ordering the next day and it's same their orders I think um it's sometime in December so for all of you that got an iPhone 10 that got the pre-order congratulations I mean that it's fun and it's exciting but also like just we've got to think about the bigger picture of how lucky we are to be like yeah I just dropped $1,000 on the phone it's wild so anyways we'll be back with this week later or sorry next week with obviously all new show content talking about everything Apple we will also get some inline interviews we're gonna go out to the stores and see what happens on November the 3rd for pickup day so other than that we'll see you guys next time a little bit of Apple bits to the Apple byte you know how it is Brian song here take care be safe peace