I think the article is wrong. When it comes to a new product Apple and Samsung or other big companies really test a new product...on this level with so much money involved you cannot afford to go wrong. It is true that you could actually go wrong but only when you are stubborn and proud like Microsoft. They were told not to name the table RT because it will confuse the people about Windows 8 and it will make them believe that RT is a different version. I was reading the other day that they admited and they will chance the name.
They said the same bad things about ios 7 and it is now used by more than 70% of users. The source of the article is week and it could be the competition. I have read about it and the opinion presented in this article made sense:
would be nice to start hearing some details from apple and the carriers on how to actually buy or order one or the other, since we are only 8 days away from launch.
Regardless, you can easily pick up any colour 5C you like in any capacity but the 5S is sold out everywhere. Either they thought that $100 off the price of the premium 5S would cause such overwhelming demand that we'd better produce several orders of magnitude more of these things... or they really are massaging the supply to give the 5C a fighting chance. The only reason stories like that in the WSJ take off is because they seem so believable based on what people can see with their own eyes... warehouses full of the plastic one, and people waiting a month for the Gold one. This could backfire badly for Apple, or they may just get away with it like every year
p.s. I like the products (you can put me down for the iPhone 6 if they increase the screen size and awful ratio) but I hate the arrogance of the top brass.
Except that Apple had never produced an iPhone that didn't sell until the 5C came along - demand is very low for these things, that's a fact. Apple's just-in-time production method usually keeps them from producing too much, but apparently they've grossly overestimated the demand for the 5C.
I'm not sure what exactly happened - but I'm thinking Apple is trying to find out just how far they can push the boundaries before even the most loyal / stupid (sorry) customers start seeing through their little business of selling the same product (or, in this case, a cheaply made, crappy version of last year's product) over and over again.
Do you really see the Apple bosses sitting together saying: let us just try and push the boundaries with a crappy cheaply made version of our Iphone 5? Do you really think that this is the level in a company like Apple or even Samsung? Seriously? Where did you read a professional opinion that iphone 5c is a crappy version of iphone 5?
They haven't invented any of that. They turned all of them into lifestyle products and yes, that's something they deserve to be applauded for. When the first iPhone came out - that was innovation. Since then, they've been buying companies that innovate - that's all they did. They did that with Siri, they did it with the fingerprint sensor (which is hardly an innovation anyway) - and they copied Android and Windows Phone 8 for the design of iOS 7.
Samsung may not have come up with the all-screen smartphone concept but they have been insanely innovative when it comes to chip-design. Their screens are excellent, their wireless modules are top-notch. Half the industry (including Apple) uses Samsung products to power their own phones and tablets. Apple is a design company, Samsung is a technology leader.
I'm not a Samsung fan - far from it - but your post sounded just a little fanboy-ish.
You are so far from the truth...a simple google search would show you how "cheap" the iphone 5c is and the differences (not many) between the two devices. You need to take off the samsung glasses before throwing statements around without any links
I don't need to Google that - I've played with the 5C extensively and think it's cheaply made with lousy materials, just like many of the competition's phones. I already own an iPhone 5S, btw. Your statement is a bit ridiculous.
Perhaps Digitec starts taking pre-orders earlier? At the moment they're only selling grey-market iPhones but they also tend to be among the first to get the official Swiss version. I bought Swisscom iPhones on the day they launched from Digitec before.
Oh...so it is your opinion that matters not what the professionals are saying? And you are calling me ridiculous? That explains why you do not have any links for your opinions...people are ridiculous or fanboy-ish but you are the standard? Read about the plastic used and then call it lousy.