Apple is facing a manufacturing shortage that's affecting the inventory of its new iPhone 5. Delivery times have slipped to 3-4 weeks and analysts are lowering their sales estimates for the holiday quarter. Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that assembles the iPhone for Apple, told the Wall Street Journal that the iPhone 5 is slow off the assembly line because of difficulties in assembling the device.
An anonymous company official told the Wall Street Journal that, "the iPhone 5 is the most difficult device that Foxconn has ever assembled." It's light, thin and its "design is very com