{"id":635729,"date":"2026-10-19T23:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T23:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/635729\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T23:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T23:32:08","slug":"daring-fireball-estimated-arrival-dates-for-df-readers-pre-ordered-iphone-duos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/635729\/","title":{"rendered":"Daring Fireball: Estimated Arrival Dates for DF Readers\u2019 Pre-Ordered iPhone Duos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday, 19 October 2026<\/p>\n

Yesterday I posted the same question to my followers on X<\/a>, Threads<\/a>, and Mastodon<\/a>:1<\/a><\/p>\n

Poll, only for people who have pre-ordered a Duo. When is your
\ndelivery\/pickup date?<\/p>\n

October
\nNovember
\nDecember
\nJanuary<\/p>\n

The results were interesting; I\u2019m glad I asked.<\/p>\n

XThreadsMastodonTotal<\/p>\n

October36%38%39%37%<\/p>\n

November35%42%45%39%<\/p>\n

December10%9%8%10%<\/p>\n

January19%11%8%14%<\/p>\n

Responses1,3821,0344492,865<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Observations:<\/p>\n

There were way more people who successfully got October ship dates than I expected. It\u2019s very close to even with November ship dates.<\/p>\n

The fact that there are fewer December ship dates than January, is to me, a sign of Apple\u2019s appreciation for the holidays. I think Apple is only promising \u201cDecember\u201d for shipments they are 100 percent certain they can deliver by Christmas. I bet a bunch of the orders promised for January will in fact ship in December\u2009\u2014\u2009albeit perhaps too-late-for-Christmas December.<\/p>\n

Apparently some configurations are getting an estimated date of February 1<\/a>. I wish I\u2019d listed February as an option, but I don\u2019t think it would have made a big difference.<\/p>\n

Per MacRumors today<\/a>, some pre-order estimates are already moving up, like from early December to late November.<\/p>\n

No one should mistake my audience as representative of the general public in any poll, but I bet my audience is at least ballpark representative of the general public when it comes to something like pre-ordering, at the crack of dawn, a new iPhone form factor that costs $2000 to $3200.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, 19 October 2026 Yesterday I posted the same question to my followers on X, Threads, and Mastodon:1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-635729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}