Apple’s iPhone 5 in short supply because it’s ‘the most difficult device that Foxconn has ever assembled’

“Still waiting for an iPhone 5? Apple’s own supplier offers a reason why,” Lance Whitney reports for CNET.

“An unnamed official with Hon Hai, aka Foxconn, told the Wall Street Journal that the design process of making the new phone light and thin is ‘very complicated,'” Whitney reports. “Calling the iPhone 5 ‘the most difficult device that Foxconn has ever assembled,’ the official said that factory employees are still learning how to build the phone.”

Whitney reports, “But he offered a note of optimism by saying that workers are getting better at assembling the phone. ‘Practice makes perfect,’ he told the Journal.”

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