Apple 'completely blown away' by iPhone 5 demand
Less than half a day after opening iPhone 5 pre-orders, Apple has been hit with stockouts of all models, including those provided to U.S. wireless carriers.
In a statement to All Things D, Apple spokeswoman Nat Kerris said, ?Pre-orders for iPhone 5 have been incredible. We?ve been completely blown away by the customer response.?
iPhone 5 pre-orders went live at 12:01 a.m. PDT, with customer demand at Apple's online store seeing a sellout of first-day shipment stock in about an hour. Launch day stock at the three major U.S. wireless operators, Verizon, AT&T and Sprint, likewise dwindled some hours later. Sprint is the only carrier with units available for delivery on Sept. 21, however stock is limited to the 32GB and 64GB models.
While the initial batch of launch day iPhone 5s are sold out, Apple and its partners are still taking pre-orders for the device, with the Online Apple Store now quoting ship-by dates of 2-3 weeks.
In a statement to All Things D, Apple spokeswoman Nat Kerris said, ?Pre-orders for iPhone 5 have been incredible. We?ve been completely blown away by the customer response.?
iPhone 5 pre-orders went live at 12:01 a.m. PDT, with customer demand at Apple's online store seeing a sellout of first-day shipment stock in about an hour. Launch day stock at the three major U.S. wireless operators, Verizon, AT&T and Sprint, likewise dwindled some hours later. Sprint is the only carrier with units available for delivery on Sept. 21, however stock is limited to the 32GB and 64GB models.
While the initial batch of launch day iPhone 5s are sold out, Apple and its partners are still taking pre-orders for the device, with the Online Apple Store now quoting ship-by dates of 2-3 weeks.
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But isn't is supposed to be a disappointment?
Well, maybe in Trollistan, or Trollvania.
/s
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
This is gonna be huge
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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.
Or maybe he was being sarcastic...
I believe "/s" is how tech people denote sarcasm. I take it you've never read any of his earlier posts?
No, that's only one of the possible reasons. I covered this in a different thread:
I smell a rat!
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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.
You don't know what "/s" means?
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.
i call bullshit on your bullshit. the content on which you called bullshit was properly tagged and, therefore, not bullshit.
Just wait till next week when numbers are released and then we are talking again
iPhone 4s was sold more than 1 Million times in 24hrs so 7 million for 5 days is very realistic even more when you think about it that they do the fastest rollout ever
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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.