For the first time, Vietnamese people waited for the 'Apple Store to open' to order iPhone 17

The Apple Online Store in Vietnam has stopped operating in all Group 1 markets. This is the first time that domestic users have had the experience of waiting to buy iPhones at the same time as the rest of the world.

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On the afternoon of September 12 (Hanoi time), Apple Store Online in Group 1 markets simultaneously stopped operating to prepare for opening orders that same evening. These are the first regions in the world to sell iPhones on September 19.

All group 1 markets will open for orders at the same time. Depending on the time zone, the order period ranges from midnight to the next morning in different countries.

This is the first year the Vietnamese market has been upgraded to this group, so domestic users have the experience of waiting for the online page to open to order iPhones simultaneously compared to the world. On social networks, many customers and businesses share screenshots of the Apple homepage, evoking the feeling of queuing in front of the Apple Store in the past.

In the GMT+7 time zone, Vietnam is among the most favorable pre-order opening hours. Customers can start buying the device as early as 7pm on September 12. Meanwhile, New Zealand, the country that sells iPhones the earliest in the world, opened its website at 0am on September 13 local time. In the US, customers have to wake up early at 5am (Washington time) to order the iPhone 17 series.

Depending on the time zones of each country, pre-orders take place at different times. But in reality, the countries that opened pre-orders all started buying iPhones at the same time. At exactly 7 p.m. on September 12, when Vietnamese users joined in pre-ordering, customers in Australia, Japan, the UK or the US also had similar activities.

However, the delivery will be done according to local time. Customers in countries with early time zones such as New Zealand and Japan will receive the device earlier, usually at 8am (local time), which is early morning on September 19th Vietnam time. Vietnamese customers will receive the device a few hours later.

On the evening of September 12, in addition to Apple Store Vietnam, authorized domestic dealers also officially opened orders for iPhone 17. These units are still familiar places for customers to buy Apple phones. According to data from major dealers, there have been hundreds of thousands of registrations to receive product information, since the time Apple announced the new iPhone.

However, according to Tri Thuc - Znews 's own source, the amount of goods supplied to Vietnam in the first phase is not much. Domestic distribution units have to "compete" for goods with neighboring countries such as Singapore and Thailand.

Source: https://znews.vn/lan-dau-nguoi-viet-cho-apple-store-mo-cua-de-dat-iphone-17-post1584743.html