Apple 'completely blown away' by iPhone 5 demand

But isn't is supposed to be a disappointment?

Well, maybe in Trollistan, or Trollvania.

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Originally Posted by mrrodriguez 

iPhone 5 selling out was never doubted, the reasons why it sells out so quickly and how many they had available should be the real story.

Probably because it continues this:

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2012/09/iphone-tops-jd-power-customer-satisfaction-survey.html

http://www.bgr.com/2012/09/07/iphone-customer-satisfaction-bests-rivals-jd-power/

Like every iPhone that ever existed. 

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Originally Posted by Paul94544 

Apple intentionally shorted inventory, this guy makes me laugh eithe he is trolling or he is comple buffoon

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Originally Posted by Andre Bee 


Bullshit. People come up with this all the time. Apple is in a hurry. iPhone Sales continously were decreasing in the past month due to people waited for the iPhone 5. The Financial Quarter ends September so they must sell each unit they have in Order to meet the goals the market will expect from them.
Apple will release a sneak peek next week and I would estimate 7 million units sold in 3-5 days

Somebody needs to pay more attention to the sascasm tag ----------> /s

You don't really need proof that iPhones are selling like mad shortly after the introduction of a new model. Take it as a given right out of the gate. 

It would be interesting to know whether the amount they "stocked" for launch was limited by Apple's own guidance or manufacturing.

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Originally Posted by jmgregory1 

It would be interesting to know whether the amount they "stocked" for launch was limited by Apple's own guidance or manufacturing.

leading up to the release there was speculation of supply issues.  No doubt Apple will sell a boatload, but no doubt (in my mind) that this go around they ACTUALLY have less supply than previous years.

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Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer 

I love the `tech gurus of the Android world' talking smack about a blah product. Quality sells out. A choice of 50 so-so and a few very large screen phones will force OEMs to rethink it all from the ground up. Google is reaping money off your advertisement relationships. They couldn't care less if the OEMs fail. They'll quietly make sure their subsidiary, MM, starts to put out more compelling solutions.

There fixed it for you. To say that someone could care less indicates that that they have to care at least the smallest bit and I am pretty sure you meant to say that they really could not care less.

I can wait until Oct 5. I know I said I was going to be online at midnight but I got sleepy...zzzz. I woke up at 4:00 am. Oh well better than standing in queue with Android trolls walking up and down the line taunting you with their big screens like in the commercials.  

BTW I ordered the white one (I know I said I was going black but I changed my mind at the last minute) 64 GB AT&T

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Originally Posted by jmgregory1 

It would be interesting to know whether the amount they "stocked" for launch was limited by Apple's own guidance or manufacturing.

Good question... My gut tells me manufacturing... My head tells me Apple guidance.

Edit:  According to PED, the iP5 release dates have been set to maximize 2012FQ4 results:

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/09/13/apples-strategically-timed-iphone-5-rollout-schedule/

Edit 2:  AFICT, Apple counts an online Apple Store order as a "sale" when it begins "preparing for shipment" -- and bills your credit card.  That means any Apple Store orders made today with 2 week shipment will be booked as "sales" on the 28th and be included in FQ4 2012.  Also any new iPod orders.

Any sales to carriers or other resellers are booked as "sales" when shipments to them are scheduled.

Seems, that Tim has some skills to maximize financial performance -- in addition to those proven for manufacturing and supply-chain management.

Well done, Tim... Well done, Apple.

Apple is being completely irresponsible by selling clearly superior phones. If only they would follow the tried and tested model of releasing crap phones then they would not have this supply/demand problem.

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Originally Posted by Soundvision 

 

 

Somebody needs to pay more attention to the sascasm tag ----------> /s

Lol agreed

When was the last launch that Apple was not blown away by? I'm pretty sure 'higher than expected consumer demand' has been the theme the last few times. Although in this case, I'm really curious as to what the numbers will come out to be. I think they will be stratospheric. 

Originally Posted by DethByUngaBunga 
Bring on the iPad mini, smart fingerprint tech, and whatever secret TV project is cooking - and let the haters hate.

I don't see how any of those ideas fit anywhere or are evident due to the iPhone's success. 

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Originally Posted by Slurpy 

Pre-orders sold out 20x faster than those of the 4S. If Apple has anywhere NEAR the numbers that we're available for 4s pre-orders (and they may have had more), we're looking at a monster launch that really is beyond anything else ever seen.
Either way, history repeats itself.
BORING. PATHETIC UPDATE. APPLE IS DOOMED. CATCHING UP TO WHAT ANDROID HAD 50 YEARS AGO. LOL NO MORE INNOVATION. IM FINISHED WITH APPLE. UNDERSPECCED. ETC ETC.
Then numbers start coming out, proving people on the Internet (and especially apple fan sites) are utterly disconnected from the real world and what people want, showing an unprecedented launch and smashing every record available. Every. Fucking. Time.
So the "apple is doomed" shit will be delayed another year, after the iphone 5 has become the best selling smartphone of all time. The 5S will be shown off, and we can repeat the all too predictable pattern, and the haters will continue to have a record of being 100% wrong, all the time, every time, but they won't history stop them from making the same assinine predictions.

I find it hard to believe Apple had the same number of 5's as they did 4S's an sold out 20X faster. It doesn't make any sense.  I think this is a combination of lower supplies for the US (more countries in at launch date IIRC), a better server to handle the load so more people could order faster without getting locked out, and maybe actually fewer in inventory if the supply problems reports are true.

I also love how so many of this forum are completely myopic. One either drools over every Apple move or one is a Fandroid.  I don't think this phone was a innovative in technology as it should have been. I repeated that here several times. It didn't stop me from buying one, but it also didn't stop me from pointing out the flaws I see in Apple's products.

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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil 

Originally Posted by DethByUngaBunga 
Bring on the iPad mini, smart fingerprint tech, and whatever secret TV project is cooking - and let the haters hate.

 

I don't see how any of those ideas fit anywhere or are evident due to the iPhone's success. 

I think we should all chip in to buy Tallest a new iPhone 5 with a 2 year contract prepaid. Perhaps then he will stop being such a Debbie Downer.

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Originally Posted by Captain J 

I find it hard to believe Apple had the same number of 5's as they did 4S's an sold out 20X faster. It doesn't make any sense.  I think this is a combination of lower supplies for the US (more countries in at launch date IIRC), a better server to handle the load so more people could order faster without getting locked out, and maybe actually fewer in inventory if the supply problems reports are true.

 

I also love how so many of this forum are completely myopic. One either drools over every Apple move or one is a Fandroid.  I don't think this phone was a innovative in technology as it should have been. I repeated that here several times. It didn't stop me from buying one, but it also didn't stop me from pointing out the flaws I see in Apple's products.

It doesn't have to be completely innovative every time it's release. Do you say that about cars every year? It just has to build upon what was released last year.

Originally Posted by mstone 
…contract prepaid.

Bit of an oxymoron, idn'it? 

My point stands, of course.

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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil 

Originally Posted by mstone 
…contract prepaid.

 

Bit of an oxymoron, idn'it? 

 

My point stands, of course.

ain'it the truth? All your points stand of course since you da' man!

Here's something that Samsung and others are free to copy, without repercussions.

There are no patents on long lines and there are no patents on having the most desirable phone in the world. Go ahead Samsung, go and copy that, I don't think that Apple can sue you for that. The only problem is that you first have to make an original and amazing product that will cause millions of people to lose sleep and get up in the middle of the night with their credit cards by their side, ready to order said product, causing slow servers and creating a feeding frenzy unlike anything ever seen before.

One thing is for sure, countless people on the internet are apparently infected by the retard virus, a virus which causes certain people to completely lose their minds and it makes these people look like complete idiots and it causes them to make the most outlandish and comical claims. These people are borderline mentally ill and they have a totally warped sense of reality. Anybody with a normally functioning brain could see that the iPhone 5 would be a grand slam from the start!

Anybody claiming that the iPhone 5 was not a significant upgrade is either lying or they are completely clueless. Just about every single component in the iPhone got an upgrade. 

And here's a clue, the iPhone 6, iPhone 7 (or whatever they're going to call them) and so on, will also improve upon the iPhone, making the best phone in the world slightly better each time. Only a complete freaking idiot would abandon or drastically change a wildly successful product, which is pretty much what some morons claim to want. If you are young and ignorant or maybe just stupid, go look up "New Coke" and perhaps you'll understand how utterly stupid your ideas sound and you also might learn a thing or two about how successful businesses work and how to avoid historic fiascos.

If iOS is "boring" to you, then perhaps you should ask your mother to up your dosage of Ritalin. I can guarantee you that you will be disappointed in the next iPhone and the next version of iOS also. The simple fact of the matter is that the people have spoken (the people who matter most, customers with money), and the iPhone is the undisputed most desirable and best designed phone on the planet. If you disagree, then you most likely have some oversized, plastic piece of crap in your pocket which runs a vastly inferior OS with enormous lag, that is barely even fit for human consumption. Hell, I wouldn't even buy an Android phone and give it to my dog, if I had one. And you are of course free to use whichever phone you want, just don't pretend that you don't know who the king is.