In The Aftermath Of Today’s Ordering Frenzy Apple Order Status Goes Down

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In the aftermath of todays iPhone 4S ordering frenzy Apple’s order status system has gone down. If you’ve ordered an iPhone 4S today rest assured that your order has been placed if you receive the order acknowledgement email from the Apple Store online.

There isn’t any need to check your order status after receiving that email until next week. Here are a few tips on how you can track your order later.

Currently when I tried to use https://www.apple.com/orderstatus I received the “We’ll be back soon” message from the online Apple Store after going through a few steps to confirm my iPhone 4S order. I didn’t receive the same message when accessing the store itself this afternoon.

You can use the above web link next week to check the status of your order as it gets closer to Friday’s delivery. That is if you were lucky enough to get your order in to have one delivered by then.

If you already have an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch you could use an app to track your order. My favorite app for doing that is called Delivery Status touch which is $4.99 in the iTunes App Store. It will track your online Apple Store orders using the web order number from your acknowledgement email and your Apple ID.

However, now even it cannot track the order due to the outage on Apple’s website. Once you receive the carrier shipping information you can track it using that as well. Finally, as your package makes it to you and gets scanned you can see its route on a map on your favorite iDevice.

It looks like sales figures for the iPhone 4S are off to a good start and that is a good thing. In fact its is better than a good thing as far as I’m concerned after the loss of Steve Jobs. I think that every time an iPhone 4S is sold it is an iPhone 4 Steve. I’ll always remember him when I hold it or for that matter when I hold any of my other Apple products.

 

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