That's right folks... I said it, and you heard it here first!

What's worse? I spent 8 hours in line at the Canton Michigan AT&T store on Ford Road and was the 1st in line only to be turned away by the police! I went to another AT&T store in another town that opened up at 10 and also was the first in line there only to be told there was no iPhone 7+ in stock! The media is saying "sold out", but truth be known Apple simply does not have any stock of these phones! You can't say an item "sold-out" on opening day when the 1st person in line is turned away due to lack of stock! Please tell me, in what world does it make sense to totally blow the opening day and piss off your most loyal fans who would wait in 8 hour lines!? What is wrong with this company that they would continue to hang on to a failure like Tim Cook!? I want to buy more Apple products, honestly! I don't feel the problems with Apple are with the hardware, I feel the problems are with the CEO Tim Cook! Any CEO that thinks it's a good idea to blow opening day isn't doing the company or it's customers any favors.

So here is the sign that was on the window at the AT&T store when I arrived on Thursday September 15th @ 11:00PM.

Storefront.

Let's take a closer look at this sign... Does it say "No iPhone 7+ in stock"? No! It says to form a line! Now in what world would a company make a customer wait all night in line for a product that it KNEW it didn't have in stock? In years past people were forming lines about 11pm the night before opening morning, and there has always been at least "some" stock for walk ins, as most fans want the item the moment it releases and the only way that is possible is going to the store, right? Not the case anymore! They might as well not even advertise an opening day anymore!

Look at the parking lot! Empty except for my car right? It gets better! Not only did AT&T not have any stock of the iPhone 7+, but they decided to have cracks repaired in the parking lot the morning of launch day, so around 6am some construction folks turned up asking me to move. LOL! Naturally, after having spent 8 hours waiting in line I thought it must be some kind of scam to steal my spot, so I tell the guys to go get someone from AT&T to validate their story and hold my spot and then I would gladly move my legally parked vehicle. Well this ended up with the cops being called.

Upon the police arriving, whom might I add were very professional and were actually just across the street keeping on eye on me, the AT&T representative finally showed up and told the officer that there was no iPhone 7+ stock! This was at 6:30am! An hour and a half before the store opened! So they knew all along they had no stock, but failed to post any such notice! Why? Because doing so would prove the phone didn't "sell out", rather it was "not in stock". Anyway, after moving my car to the other side of the parking lot the officer grabbed my folding chair and told me there was no point in waiting because there was no 7+ iPhones in stock. He also got me the business card for the AT&T manager who refused to give it to me earlier. I took his suggestion and got out of there before I come un-glued however I was so pissed and cold that I was literally shaking. I was so angry that I had wasted 8 hours I was literally seeing red!

After pulling myself together I found another AT&T store that opened up at 10am and was actually just down the street. Upon pulling into this location at 9:30am (half hour before they open), this is what I see.

Looks pretty dead for opening day huh? Again, I was the 1st in line and upon entering the store I was told there was no iPhone 7+ in stock! No such incidents like before at this location, but the entire ordeal has made me really think about what happened. Sure, it's humiliating and I feel like a fool... I waited in line for 8 hours for absolutely nothing, all because this was the protocol in every other subsequent launch prior to the iPhone 7+. It literally took me until Monday to cool down and here it is Tuesday and I'm still quite upset!

Sure, AT&T has a part in this... But the "real" issue is with Apples Tim Cook, a CEO that in many ways looks as much of a crook and fraud as his company outwardly displays when they make claims like "Opening day" or "Sold-out". If Apple is going to forgo the big welcome of each new iPhone every September that's fine! Just don't decide to do it quietly where you still try and capitalize on the publicity that loyal fans display when they wait in line for 8 hours, cash in hand, waiting for that "Opening day".  It's a fraud, and one the media and any one of the carriers of these Apple phones are sold at. They are ALL in on it.

I still have 4 iPhones in the family fleet, and the hardware for the most part is better than average. This can be credited to the designers and engineers who made these phones... But the business end of distribution and customer satisfaction falls squarely on the shoulders of CEO Tim Cook! For this reason, and many other priors, it's quite clear! Tim Cook needs to be fired! He is not a business man, nor is he any kind of asset to Apple or it's customers and shareholders. His only claim to fame is the fact Steve Jobs picked him, probably because Cook was a good yes man to Jobs. Whatever the reason, it's clear Cook is in no way qualified to run Apple! Even the launches of the new iPhones in September have turned into more or less a bore... Cook seems like a broken record, and everyone seems less than enthusiastic. It's one thing to say that with each release of a new iPhone it's naturally expected to be the "best" Apple has ever offered, but what about things like management? What about things like having at least 1 of these phones available on launch date?

So Apple wants to play many angles here, which is where I feel the fraud comes in. 1st it wants to say that it's phones have "Sold-Out", like there was a mad rush to buy them when nothing could be further from the truth. Apple did not sell out their stock, they simply were unprepared and didn't have any stock! They should have made the release date for the iPhone 7+ November 16th 2016 rather than lying to people and telling them it was September 16th!

Then we have the question of WHY Apple is trying to move to a pre-order system rather than stocking it's distributors for opening day. The answer is quite clear, they can get paid for the item then whenever they happen to have enough stock they can send them out. What does this mean for the future of buying Apple iPhones on release date? It just means that Apple will pick and choose who gets the phones, overinflating their value by purposely creating a false sense of popularity. Are we to really believe that a company like Apple who has been releasing iPhone for nearly 9 years now, didn't know what to expect for the release of the iPhone 7+? That is highly doubtful but then again we are talking about Tim Cook here.

For me, I have been trying to rotate out a bent iPhone 6 for several months now, and I been putting it off for the release of the iPhone 7+ for obvious reasons. I think Apple really needs to let Tim Cook go, and the media needs to start doing their job and reporting what has happened for what it really is... A fraudulent perception of demand, artificially created by a company on purpose to those ends! If I didn't really need to rotate out an old iPhone 6, I might not have even bothered to wait in line, although I must admit that with each release of a new number iPhone  (ie 3-4-5-6 and now 7) it's been a fun tradition to wait in line, and buy a new iPhone. Some years you get there early and get a good spot, others you're farther behind, but always was there at least enough stock for the most die hard fans to buy one on opening day.

This whole move to pre-order is nothing but an effort to create this false frenzy. What company would forgo the FREE advertising every year of loyal customers lining up to buy the next version of their favorite phone!? That is why I am saying, Tim Cook needs to go!