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Apple Cites 'Incredible' Demand for New iPhones Amid iPhone 5s Sellouts

scbn said:
It seems with 5s coming out, nobody cares about the 5c anymore... :)
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Time will tell! From my workmates today 3 of them got the 5C while only one that I know got the 5S. 5C could very well be a dark horse.

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themoffster said:
They want to pull the finger out and actually start having supplies of the stuff.
This "incredible demand" is getting old.

Of course there will be "incredible demand" if you only have two dozen of the things to sell in every shop.
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But wonder how then they can announce over 5 or 6 millions new handsets sold over the first weekend if they are making this up? Do you think they lie about it? I am being serious.....
 
I ordered a the white/gold 64 GB iPhone 5S during the first hour of availability at the Apple store and have a vague "October" ship time.

Apple was really caught unprepared for the demand on this model, apparently.
 
The cynic in me wonders if they didn't come out with two new iPhone's (one of which is essentially the same as the previous years model) because they knew that the yields on the 5S would be so low. This way they can still offer some customers a "new" iPhone in the 5C while they work on increasing yields of the 5S.
 
I showed up to an Apple Store around 3:45 AM but couldn't get silver, so I settled for the space gray. The store had more than enough space gray models for the entire line.
 
BvizioN said:
Time will tell! From my workmates today 3 of them got the 5C while only one that I know got the 5S. 5C could very well be a dark horse.

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But wonder how then they can announce over 5 or 6 millions sold over the first weekend? Do you think they lie about it? I am being serious.....
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I just bought a 64G, 5s for myself... and a 32G, blue, 5c for my youngest daughter.
 
I just was not excited.

I have upgraded every year since the initial iPhone in 2007 but I'm waiting for the iPhone 6 this time around. My iPhone 5 seems new to me with iOS7 on it.

64-bit does nothing for me and although the fingerprint sensor is really cool, its not enough for me to upgrade.

Athough, I'm excited for those of you that do get the 5s!
 
Eadfrith said:
Why are people here complaining? Do they want the response to NOT be incredible? :confused:
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I think people want the response to be great and have reasonable availability. Not 40 gray units likely being the only 5s delivered to carrier stores for the near future. The hype around the 5c is certainly understandable, as Apple will sell a lot of them (at high margins) to 4/4S owners who just want a "new" iPhone and settle for an older model instead of the one they may have preferred (at lower margins).
 
BladeLWS said:
Apple marketing does it again, to much stock means you're not planning to your customer.

Not having enough stock makes "incredible demand" headlines, drumming up excitement for more sales.
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The purpose of marketing is to sell your product. What good is marketing if you don't have any product to sell? Apple would love more iPhone 5s' to sell. They just couldn't make enough.
 
I don't think you can realistically call this a worldwide launch. With many countries, including here in the UK, having online orders go straight to 7-10 days means that what we actually got was a small US launch and the start of pre-orders in most other countries. Apart from what seems to be very small token shipments to actual shops there wasn't limited stock, there was simply no stock.
 
tmash said:
The cynic in me wonders if they didn't come out with two new iPhone's (one of which is essentially the same as the previous years model) because they knew that the yields on the 5S would be so low. This way they can still offer some customers a "new" iPhone in the 5C while they work on increasing yields of the 5S.
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Why would that be a bad thing?
 
adildacoolset said:
But they end up selling millions of units. Did you ever think that high demand means, you know, high demand? With all those long lines at the stores, do you think it's all just marketing spin?
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Don't know what stores you've been too, but hardly any over here in the UK that I have seen, two or three people at most.

There is no "high" demand, it's lack of supply as it is every year. The demand is probably normal for a new phone. There have been reports of sensor shortages for months. Apple have just used this fact for marketing purposes. Lets them claim that demand is outstripping supply.
 
g0odfr1end102 said:
What does one expect when launching 100 iPhones around the world. Oh right "incredible demand". There's NEVER enough iPhones on launch day. Period.
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How and where do you get that number? Will you still say 100 iPhones when Apple announces 5 or 6 millions sold over the weekend?? Oh right!! They must be lying...... because you know, it's Apple! :rolleyes:
 
BladeLWS said:
Apple marketing does it again, to much stock means you're not planning to your customer.

Not having enough stock makes "incredible demand" headlines, drumming up excitement for more sales.
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This is the same thing critics said last year, with the iPhone 5. Only to find out that Apple sold five million units, the most iPhones ever sold in a single day.

Let's see the numbers this year.
 
Now that the 5s is sold out, people will buy the 5c instead, then Apple will claim that the 5c was a total sellout too.
 
G4DP said:
Don't know what stores you've been too, but hardly any over here in the UK that I have seen, two or three people at most.
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Manchester, over 200 people at 5am on one of the stores lined up around Arndale centre. Only Liverpool apparently didn't have long lines.
 
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