I think those of us that have been told our orders have been picked are probably accurate and will receive it on schedule. (I hope) Anyone who has been told anything different, most commonly shifting the blame to apple with excuses like there is a delay on some models from apple are just excuses rather than telling the customer they won't receive thier device even though they've pre ordered. It's no coincidence that everyone who has been told thier device has been picked managed to get thier pre order in and confirmed as soon as possible. Anyone having issues likely tried but had issues which delayed confirming thier pre order even if it was just by a day.
This year is different to any other previous with apple, they've marketed all the 15 models to make buying the pro models a no brainier. Hypothesising here, but I don't think it's a shortage from apple, I think it's a shortage of particular models that EE have ordered to sell to thier customers because they haven't accounted for the expected increase in pro models this year. Hence why there isn't any issue with some people saying all is going smoothly when they've ordered with sky etc.
