The demand for the iPhone 5 was high, now Apple has announced due to the high demand shipments will be pushed back. How far back Apple has’nt confirmed a time table for the shipments.
Demand for the device is so strong that Apple sold out of its initial inventory in an hour and pushed back its shipping date for such pre-orders. Apple’s website began taking orders for the product at midnight PST on Friday. An hour later, though, the shipping times for the device were delayed from the original Sept. 21 to two weeks, or Sept. 28, according to Dow Jones. As of Friday morning EST, Apple was still promising the two-week wait for shipping. The site also gives users the option of picking up the device at a retail store on Sept. 21.
The company’s first major update to the device in two years has apparently sparked a great deal of consumer interest. Analysts surveyed by Bloomberg this week estimated that Apple would sell 58 million units of the device before year’s end.
One thing’s for sure: The online lag is likely to prompt the now-requisite queues in front of Apple Stores when they open the morning of Sept. 21.
[mashable]
