Deliveries of Apple's iPhone 5s delayed til Oct. in Australia, Hong Kong, & Singapore

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in iPhone edited January 2014
Just after midnight local time, Apple opened sales of their new flagship iPhone 5s and 5c to customers in in the Far East and Down Under, and orders were immediately met with delays of a week or more, pushing deliveries into the next month.

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Apple's new flagship iPhone 5s and lower-cost iPhone 5c are now available for purchase from the company's online store in Australia, Hong Kong, and Singapore. iPhone 5c, which has been available for preorder since Sept. 13, shows shipping lead times of 1 to 3 business days in all three countries.

iPhone 5s, which is said to face severe supply constraints, is shown with lead times of 7 to 10 business days in Australia. Hong Kong and Singapore list shipping dates for the handset simply as "October."

It's believed that limited supplies may be due to low yields of the new Touch ID fingerprint sensor, prompting Apple to not offer preorders of its latest flagship handset.

Although Apple has not released preorder numbers for the iPhone 5c ? much to investors' chagrin ? a spokeswoman for Australian carrier Vodafone, one of Apple's launch partners, told the Sydney Morning Herald that preorders were "going well as expected." Analysts believe that Apple could sell as many as 8 million of the new handsets over the coming weekend.

Customers in the new iPhones' other launch countries ? Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Puerto Rico, the U.S. and the U.K. ? can purchase the devices at an Apple retail store starting at 8:00 am local time on Friday, and the phones are also available from Apple's carrier partners.
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  • Reply 1 of 23

    Let's hope this is not iMac redux.

  • Reply 2 of 23
    I love how they're supposed to sell 8 million of these and yet no one can get their hands on one unless they're outside an Apple store within the first hour ha.
  • Reply 3 of 23

    I am sorry this article is highly misleading.

     

    Hong Kong has been accepting preorders for a few days now because like China, they need to combat the scalpers and resellers. They have a balloting system in place.

     

    Singapore has been accepting preorders with the local telcos since yesterday and collection will start in a few hours. Traditionally, the official Apple store does not get a whole lot of stock until about a month later.

     

    If the last iPhone launch is anything to go by, the online Apple store sold out pretty much in seconds.

  • Reply 4 of 23

    "...It's believed that limited supplies may be due to low yields of the new Touch ID fingerprint sensor, prompting Apple to not offer preorders of its latest flagship handset...."

     

    Which anal-yst believes that? How much will they earn on AAPL this time?

     

    iPhone will sell like hell, and WS criminals and lying and cheating Samscum and Booble can eat themselves alive...

  • Reply 5 of 23

    well, until the US load kicks in (The phone may be the same underneath, but unit labelling/etching, packaging, power plug), and the pre-planning levels for each combination really drive the supply levels for each country), I'm not really concerned.   It may be that 90% of the pre-release production may be sitting in FedEx warehouses in Memphis…  (or not ;-( )

     

    After Monday, then I'll worry or not. (I'm looking at at Oct 1st-ish purchase).

     

    The fact it is the same phone underneath, the 's' should be much more flexible in terms of addressing particular supply shortages later in the next month.

  • Reply 6 of 23
    Only Apple can be accused of severe supply constraints, because of lead times of 7 to 10 business days ...
  • Reply 7 of 23
    Perhaps the "s" in iPhone 5s stands for slim-pickings :D

    I just hope when the store in the UK opens it's got decent lead times and not affected by the ones from Asia
  • Reply 8 of 23

    The stock wouldn't be up over $10 if the supply figures were low.

  • Reply 9 of 23
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    Originally Posted by anantksundaram View Post

     

    Let's hope this is not iMac redux.


     

    It smells like that at least for 5s.

  • Reply 10 of 23

    I'm in Singapore, and local telcos are limiting 5s supplies to only a few stores. I suspect they'll quickly run out.

  • Reply 11 of 23
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    Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer View Post

     

    The stock wouldn't be up over $10 if the supply figures were low.


     

    From a technical standpoint I'm not surprised that the stock is up over the last few days... low supplies or not. Wait until Monday. If the sales figure is low expect a hit to the stock... but not until then.

  • Reply 12 of 23
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    Originally Posted by anantksundaram View Post

     

    Let's hope this is not iMac redux.


     

    The 5S is a beautiful phone... in all aspects. It will be a massive hit, I'm sure. Any supply constraints whatsoever are going to wreak havoc on the supply.

     


    Maybe apple was hoping that the 5C would take up the slack. That doesn't seem to be the case. 
  • Reply 13 of 23
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    Originally Posted by island hermit View Post

     

     

    From a technical standpoint I'm not surprised that the stock is up over the last few days... low supplies or not. Wait until Monday. If the sales figure is low expect a hit to the stock... but not until then.


     

    They already know a low ball channel estimate and they are higher than what analysts shot their mouths off earlier in the week.

  • Reply 14 of 23
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer View Post

     

     

    They already know a low ball channel estimate and they are higher than what analysts shot their mouths off earlier in the week.


     

    ?????????  and...

     

    [ I don't think estimated volume high or low will impact the stock right now... I think the increase in the stock price is based mostly on a technical standpoint... ie. golden cross, oversold ]

  • Reply 15 of 23
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    Originally Posted by poksi View Post

     

    "...It's believed that limited supplies may be due to low yields of the new Touch ID fingerprint sensor, prompting Apple to not offer preorders of its latest flagship handset...."

     

    Which anal-yst believes that? How much will they earn on AAPL this time?

     

    iPhone will sell like hell, and WS criminals and lying and cheating Samscum and Booble can eat themselves alive...


     

    An analyst saying good things about AAPL is an analyst, even an expert.

    An analyst saying bad things about AAPL is an anal-yst, a moron, an idiot, ...

  • Reply 16 of 23
    Originally Posted by Blitz1 View Post

    An analyst saying good things about AAPL is an analyst, even an expert.

    An analyst saying bad things about AAPL is an anal-yst, a moron, an idiot, ...


     

    You know for a fact that this is incorrect. An analyst lying about Apple is an idiot. “Apple will sell 10 million on opening weekend” is a “good thing”, except it’s a lie designed to destroy value.

  • Reply 17 of 23

    From tropical Cairns, Australia: niece got an iP5S her brother got an iP5c this morning from Vodafone. No worries!

     

    These things are going to sell like hotcakes. 

  • Reply 18 of 23
    TS, this is exactly what I said.
    An analyst saying bad things about Apple is a lying idiotic anal-yst.
  • Reply 19 of 23
    malaxmalax Posts: 1,598member
    Nearly two hours after going on sale online in the US, the gold models are all showing as "October" and almost all of the grey and silver ones as "1-3 business days."
  • Reply 20 of 23


    An analyst saying bad things about Apple is a lying idiotic anal-yst.


     

    I’ll say it again; you are wrong about this.

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