And Apple’s design IS clever. You don’t approach Foxconn and say, we liked the iPhone 4, but make it thinner. What Apple provides IS the design, and that includes deciding the materials needed to build, and pulls all the pieces together to make a cohesive device.

Few other manufacturers do this consistently, or care to do it consistently.

Is this a serious question?

Apple builds things people want. Most normal people are comfortable waiting a little while extra for something they want. The Foxconn staff need to understand this, take pride in their craft, and just relax.

In the meantime, impatient people need to stop complaining about devices which are thinner, lighter, and thus more desirable.

As far as I know, the iPhone 4s was is available. Impatient people such as the author can just BUY THAT if they can’t wait a couple weeks like the rest of us.

In my country there was no problem to get a new iPhone5 with one week que only 5 weeks ago.

On last week it changed, I was shocked to hear que is now 5 weeks by our largest telecom operator and same concerns many other countries in Europe.

Apple really does innovative work.

Sorry, but his is utter NONSENSE. Apple asked for it to be thinner. The really clever stuff, as always is done by other companies — Apple just takes the credit.

It’s also notable that the burden of the work is undertaken primarily by under-paid over-worked staff in offshore sweat-shops under conditions which blatantly would not be considered legal or acceptable within Apple’s main territories including the USA and UK.