This is one of those questions that are hanging around the heads of many users today who await the arrival of the watch in their respective countries. Apple CEO Tim Cook himself announced that the next 26 June The company's first smartwatch would be available for purchase in the second batch of countries, but How will the sales system work? Will you have to queue at the stores? Can it be reserved and fetched later? These and other similar questions that users and friends ask us on a daily basis are what we will try to answer now.
At first there is nothing confirmed by Apple and this may change from one day to the next, but today we can say that we will have two options to carry out the purchase of the watch. The first and perhaps the most important is the statement from Angela Ahrendts, it is about a new reservation and collection system in which any user can check every morning if the nearest Apple store has the model that we want and if so, the reservation can be made to pick it up by appointment.
This may be the best way to avoid lines at stores and supply watches to all interested users and the other option may be the stock in stores and the typical queues of users waiting for the opening of the stores to get their watch.
This second option of queuing in front of the official stores seems to be the one that Apple itself with Ahrendts in the lead, is the one that you want to avoid and we are not sure that there is physical stock in the stores of the second wave. For now, what is certain is that demand and production are matching up and waiting times for shipping in the Top 9 countries of the first batch they are being lowered considerably, from today you can already buy in physical stores in these first countries and it remains to be seen if the stock will be enough for all the stores in the second wave or if in the end it is time to reserve before buying on June 26.