Apple iPhone 4 Pre-orders Kick Off in America, Sorta

Apple has cut orders for iPhone 5 components due to weaker-than-expected demand, reports the Wall Street Journal. The article said that “Apple’s orders for iPhone 5 screens for the January-March quarter, for example, have dropped to roughly half of what the company had previously planned to order.” In addition, orders for other components have also been reduced.

Japanese newspaper Sankei Biz (link via Google Translate) is reporting that Apple has halved LCD panel orders from Sharp due to lower-than-expected sales of the iPhone 5. This is the latest indication apparently pointing to the device’s sluggish performance since its launch in September, and comes just three days after Reuters reported that Sharp has slowed production of the 9.7 inch panels used f

Has the shine worn off the iPhone, or is the report that Apple has slashed iPhone 5 component orders by half simply a work of fiction?

Is anyone surprised that Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone 5 sales bounded over the 2 million mark on day one, more than doubling the 1 million units mark set by the iPhone 4S, according to the company?

Apple today announced that it managed to rack up 2 million pre-orders for the iPhone 5 in 24 hours, two times as many as it managed for the iPhone 4S last year, which sold over 1 million devices during its first 24 hours of pre-order sales.

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) reportedly has pared its Q1 orders for iPhone 5 parts owing to weaker than expected demand, according to two published accounts, at the same time as arch rival Samsung disclosed that cumulative sales of its Galaxy S device, on the market since May 2010, hit the 100 million unit sales mark.

China Unicom announced that it received orders for more than 100,000 iPhone 5 units on its first day of pre-sales, according to a report on Sina Tech.

You’d think that doing an iPhone 5 Fly Or Die would be a piece of cake, what with 2 million pre-orders in 24 hours, but it’s not so simple. All the complaining of boredom and slight lack of innovation out of Apple… well, it’s not too far off of the truth. Apple took a huge risk with the original iPhone, and even with the iPod.

Preoders for the iPhone 5 went live at midnight tonight and, true to form, they went like hotcakes. You may remember that it took 22 hours for the iPhone 4S and about 20 hours for the iPhone 4 to sell out of its pre-order, launch-day stock. The iPhone 5 took just about 60 minutes. Yep.