I do not know where to begin with this.....you mention apple is the richest/most successful company in the world, yet YOU are skeptical they know how to run an enterprise ? Lulwut? How many billion dollar companies do you currently operate? It is pretty obvious apple runs their enterprise perfectly fine.
Also about demand. You do understand that iPhones have to be assembled and that it takes months to make the phones for release right? It is not something that can be printed out, it requires significant man hours to produce. When demand for your products keeps increasing, it makes it harder to provide supply, that's just a fact.
As for people who think apple limits supply on purpose, why? To increase sales? iPhones are the best selling phones. To increase demand? The demand is clearly there as preorder and sales numbers increase each year. To increase stock prices? Apple stocks are at a record high already.
People over analyze everything and sadly they are wrong mostly. Here is another fact: no one gives a **** about scratchgate 😀
No, because its no economical to have all of the demand met at launch. Firstly, there are high lead times (time it takes the iPhone to get to USA from China) for many Apple products. Additionally, it takes a while to stockpile up millions of phones - they aren't manufactured instantly.
Then when you have a surplus at launch, you really have factories sitting idly as you dont' need to keep stockpiling units. There is just one major influx of demand around launch and then it evens out. So you are wasting valuable resources.
Instead, you provide for around 75% of your launch demand to be met, with the remaining 25% to be satisifed in the coming week or two. This is the most cost-effective and efficient way of handling a launch.
Not to mention, that since Apple is publically traded, they have to make public their forecasts and quarterly "guidance". The way the markets work is that people go crazy when you beat your estimates, and your stock tanks if you don't. So you want to show increased sales in your estimates, but go too close and you won't "wow" them as much.
Don't blame apple, blame the current way things in our world run. It's just the nature of the beast and a law of economics.
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sorry for this stupid question but I have the iphone 4 and on friday im getting the iphone 5, in the past i used to go to the store to change the phone but this year Im getting the new iphone in the mail. How do I switch the SIM card? , sorry for such a boring question ...😕
You don't switch the sim-card. As the iPhone 5 uses an even smaller and new sim. Instead you plug it into iTunes and activate it. Worst comes to worst you have to call up AT&T and read them the sim serial of your new phone.
