D-Day for the Apple Watch – Les Echos

+ VIDEOS – connected watch The American brand is available in 9 countries (including France) from Friday

D-Day for the connected Apple Watch shows on sale this Friday in France and eight other countries in the world (Japan, Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Hong Kong, UK and USA). The first privileged customer who pre-ordered should be able to unpack now. Those who are not ordered in advance will have to wait without having to queue in front of a store since Apple broke with his usual sales system.

In France, as in all other countries, no Apple store did not have watches in stock. Only a few outlets Partners received a small number of Apple Watch. In Paris include in particular have Colette in Paris. The trendy shop in the rue Saint-Honoré, which granted pre-orders every week, Friday welcomed customers from withdrawing their orders

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Similarly, in Japan, one of the first countries or Apple Watch was sold due to the time difference, mid-morning, about thirty customers – 90% of men – were waiting in front of the SoftBank shop the upscale Ginza district in Tokyo, according to AFP. All had affixed their names there are two weeks on a record store for shoppers in a hurry to buy this gadget for use in conjunction with an iPhone 5 or 6.

“Those n have not booked can not buy one today and the date of the next delivery is unknown “, assured a vendor SoftBank mobile operator longtime partner of Apple in Japan.

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Some 2.3 million Apple Watch were ordered the first weekend, according to estimates by KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.

And these pre-orders that are usually served first. The new owners will have to wait even until the beginning of the summer, some customers have been notified that their shows would not be delivered until June. However, according to Reuters, Apple has informed buyers that Apple Watch arrive in shortest time.