Did anyone else's status on the LTE mini switch from Mid November to 23 November back to Mid November?
Yes, mine did. I don't take this as a good sign. It tells me they are less sure about availability and delivery dates.
Based on the above, I did a simple Google with the following:
Is there a delay in the ipad mini LTE
A number of blogs are now reporting speculations that Apple may not be able to fulfill this order in a timely manner.
Looks like nothing mysterious about the date change other than to tell customers supply will not meet demand, even for day one preorders.
But then why still say Mid November? You can't go much latter than the 23rd and still call it 'mid'. I thought even the 23rd was a stretch. Random blog post of dubious accuracy aside I'm not all that worried about the change, just thought it odd and wondered if others were seeing the same. My thought was that the 23rd was a pessimistic date and that we would actually see our mini's shipping before that date.I read one post were the poster had been told by an Apple CSR that the mini should actually ship by the 16th ( which is incidentally a lot closer to what I'd consider 'mid').
posted this in another thread, but when I asked a customer service rep, I was told there could be a potential delay because of hurricane Sandy.
See attached.
What does Sandy have to do if the iPad is shipping from China UNLESS it's shipping to the east coast?