iPhone 5S Has Limited Devices Available On Its Launch Day

We know that the iPhone 5S will be presented on September 10 by Apple with iPhone 5C, but the device could be available in limited quantities on its launch day. The folks at Digitimes say that the manufacture problems of fingerprint reader could mean that only 3-4 millions devices would be available on the launch day around the world, the figure is extremely small for such a device.

Manufacturing problems combined with the problems of iOS 7 chip integration functionality generated this alleged reduction in stock, Apple originally wanted to have 10 million units available for late September.

Production of Apple’s next iPhone, commonly referred to be the iPhone 5S and is scheduled to be unveiled on September 10, could reach only 3-4 million units in the third quarter of 2013 compared to 10 million units as originally planned due to a delay in production of fingerprint sensors needed for the iPhone 5S, according to industry sources.

Last year Apple sold 5 million iPhone 5 devices in a single weekend, and millions more in the next week, so everything Digitimes says seems far from the truth. Number of units available for Apple is very small, so small that it would not meet the demand of weekend sales, so I for one am quite wary about the validity of the information. I think Apple has at least 10 million units available for launch weekend, or risk leaving many customers extremely angry.