The Leopard Cometh, or does it?

A small gripe, but that’s never stopped me before.

Despite claims to the contrary, it’s no big suprise that UK tech consumers get a bit of a raw deal compared to our counterparts on the other side of the pond. Occasionally this is justifiable - in the case of the iPhone for example Apple probably needed to get the relationship nailed with one carrier before branching out in to other territories.

Still on an Apple theme, there are less complicated process which i think are pretty straighforward - in this case literally a case of box-shifting. That can’t be hard to do, right?

Having been caught up in the hype for Leopard I dutifully pre-ordered it a while ago, I was impressed to see the below on the UK store site (note the 0800 number which verifies this wasn’t a page on the main US apple store).

I also need this for work, so have two preorders going to my work and home respectively.

Today when calling the Apple store folk to query a different purchase I was told that UK Leopard orders are leaving them on the 26th on a 3-day courier. Logging in to my work and personal accounts I can now see the shipping date has gone from unknown to the 26th.

It’s far from the end of the world but I simultaneously hear of friends in the states who have shipping dates of the 25th with a next-day priority service. A great way to show how they value their UK customers I guess

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