{"id":1933,"date":"2017-10-25T11:09:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T08:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2017-10-25T13:53:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T10:53:06","slug":"iphone-x-hijacks-apple-com-days-before-preorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/25\/iphone-x-hijacks-apple-com-days-before-preorders\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone X hijacks Apple.com days before preorders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakableText\">The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/products\/apple-iphone-x-preview\/\" data-annotation=\"true\" data-component=\"linkTracker\" data-link-tracker-options=\"{&quot;action&quot;:&quot;inline-annotation|Apple iPhone X|CNET_FAM_SERIES|828&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iPhone X<\/a>\u00a0won&#8217;t be available for presale for a couple more days, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/apple\/\" data-annotation=\"true\" data-component=\"linkTracker\" data-link-tracker-options=\"{&quot;action&quot;:&quot;inline-annotation|Apple|CNET_COLL|562&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple<\/a>\u00a0from overhauling its home pages to promote its new flagship phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakableText\">Veteran observers of presales will recall that Apple&#8217;s home page traditionally goes &#8220;down for maintenance&#8221; a few hours before presales begin so that Apple can prominently promote the new device or devices. But Apple appears to have gotten a jump on things Tuesday, replacing the usual images of the company&#8217;s various hardware with a page now totally devoted to showcasing the various features of the device.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors to the site now will be greeted by a large image of the phone and a reminder that it will be available for preorder one minute after midnight on Friday, Oct. 27 &#8212; a little more than two days from now. A slew of images below the main pic go on to highlight the different features of the device.<\/p>\n<p>The page overhaul comes just hours after Apple issued an unusual press release encouraging shoppers interested in purchasing the iPhone X when it hits store shelves on Nov. 3 to\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/apple-wants-you-to-line-up-early-for-the-iphone-x\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrive early if they want to get their hands on one<\/a><\/span>. The advice seemed to buttress reports of a\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/iphone-x-truedepth-sensor-production-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">possible shortage of iPhone X units<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Apple didn&#8217;t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/road-trip\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Smartest Stuff<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0Innovators are thinking up new ways to make you, and the things around you, smarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0iPhone X\u00a0won&#8217;t be available for presale for a couple more days, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped\u00a0Apple\u00a0from overhauling its home pages to promote its new flagship phone. Veteran observers of presales will recall that Apple&#8217;s home page traditionally goes &#8220;down for maintenance&#8221; a few hours before presales begin so that Apple can prominently promote the new device [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":1934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[117,109,116,108],"class_list":["post-1933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-iphone","tag-news","tag-phones","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1935,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933\/revisions\/1935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}