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That was precisely my experience when attempting to preorder the iPhone11pro through the Apple upgrade program. ... View more

This problem has been on Apple’s radar for years too with smaller wireless resellers like cricket, boost and metro. Xfininty has been pushing wireless conversions for a while now and they have an estimated 1.4 million customers. Apple should just sell unlocked phones through the upgrade program! It’s ridiculous! Apple is basically showing us the door. If they don’t figure this out, I’m not buying an iPhone 11. Like most in my position, I will sit this upgrade cycle out and have a hard think about which phone I will buy next year. Not only is Apple losing sales here, they are converting customers that were previously (happily) locked into their product path into unhappy disenfranchised customers with every incentive to explore other options moving forward. It makes no sense. Either Apple is blind to the rising tide of wireless resellers, or they looked at it and they just don’t care enough to do anything about it. ... View more

The automatic verification of your number which has been ported to Xfinity kicks you out of the upgrade program. ... View more

Which carrier were you on when you started the upgrade program? The problem we are having is that now we are on Xfinity Mobile we are no longer eligible to upgrade our phone through the popular upgrade program offered through Apple. In order to participate in that upgrade program Apple is requiring its customers to have service through Verizon, ATT, T-Mobile or Sprint. ... View more

Yeah, it makes no sense at all. Why should Apple care what carrier their customers choose? ... View more