AppleInsider Staff
In time for the lucrative holiday shopping season, a number of international Online Apple Stores, including the U.S. and Canada, are showing immediate availability of the company's newest iPhone 5.
After weeks delayed shipment times due to severe supply constraints, some Online Apple Stores are now listing the iPhone 5 as being "In Stock," suggesting supply is finally catching up to demand.
The most recent update in shipment times, first spotted by MacRumors, is the first time Apple's handset has been in stock since launching in September. Demand for the new iPhone was so high that sales topped five million units over the device's first weekend of availability, exhausting the company's initial supply.
"Demand for iPhone 5 has been incredible and we are working hard to get an iPhone 5 into the hands of every customer who wants one as quickly as possible," Apple CEO Tim Cook said at the time.
Ship-by times have been slowly improving over the past month as Apple's online storefront quoted two to three week delivery times in mid-November, which improved to two weeks by the end of the month.
Apple is scheduled to start iPhone 5 sales in China next week and demand looks to be strong as the nation's second-largest carrier recorded over 100,000 reservations just hours after the device went up for preorder on Dec. 4.
Friday's news comes about a week after most U.S. brick-and-mortar Apple Stores were reported to have all versions of the handset on hand.
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The 5 is just the right size to make a nice stocking stuffer! Nice timing Mr. Cook.
While this is the season to be jolly, watch what a magician can do with a iPad...
http://www.businessinsider.com/ipad-magic-tricks-2012-12
And some clown on CNBC today spun this as a negative claiming it means the demand is soft. Oh, ok. So having it out of stock and not available for Christmas would be better. :no: Yet these same clowns upped their sales target and are now saying anything less than 50M iPhones sold in the quarter will be failure. :rolleyes:
iPhone 5 is in stock: soft demand! Sell the stock! Apple is doomed!
iPhone 5 is not in stock: supply chain problems! Sell the stock! Apple is doomed!
Apple is selling zillions of phones: but they may not sell next year! Stock goes down! Apple is doomed!
Fiscal Cliff! End of the World!
Maybe the Mayans were right about 2012 being the end of the world after all. And the cause of the crash of humanity will be human hysteria and irrational panic lol.
The only thing that survives is Amazon. They lose money on every Kindle, they have a P/E of 10,000, and still they will survive the Appleocalypse like cockroaches haha.
Happy December 7. 512ke :)
Apple had a full year of nearly 100% adulation from the business press. Now, it is fashionable to dump on the company without the slightest shred of evidence. As an example, this week's iPad Mini launch in China, strictly controlled via an advance lottery purchase system, succeeded in maintaining order at China based stores. This was spun into a negative - demand must be weak, no glass doors were shattered, and no fights broke out. Ditto for the U.S. launch - $329 is a disappointing entry price, it must be lower to compete against clones. In reality, demand is so high that supply is only now catching up. Still, the press reports the incredible progress and achievements of Apple in a negative way.
Sounds like a buying opportunity to me.
Watch for a "beat" the fourth week of January!