“Customers in nine countries have begun gathering for the kickoff to sales of Apple Inc.’s latest iPhone 5 amid signs of heavy demand for the high-profile handset,” Ian Sherr reports for The Wall Street Journal.
“Crowds started forming earlier this week outside an Apple retail store in New York as eager customers waited to be among the first to get the new smartphone,” Sherr reports. “The device goes on sale Friday at 8 a.m. local time in each country, with Australia first in a sequence that moves to Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, France, Germany and the U.K., finishing in the U.S. and Canada.”
Sherr reports, “Apple said initial sales of the iPhone 5, which began last Friday, topped two million units within the first day it began taking pre-orders—setting a new company record… An hour into accepting pre-orders, Apple’s website indicated that it would take up to two weeks for customers to receive a new iPhone, suggesting initial inventory had sold out. On Wednesday, Apple’s website showed that pre-order customers would have to wait three to four weeks for a new iPhone 5 to ship.”
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