This goes against Apple's engineering philosophy of designing products that contain no moving parts. Products with moving parts (fans, HDDs, Optical Drives, etc) have a higher rate of break/failure.
This is a ridiculous story. OK, think about it. Would Apple commit to a Sept 21st shipping date and hold a Global iPhone 5 Event without knowing the status of suppliers/parts? I'm sure there are millions of iPhone 5s...
Competition is good. However, this really shows that Sprint is desperate to sell more iphones.....they have to. They have 30 million in their "warehouse" right now that they have to unload in 4 years. As of today, they are behind. ...