If you were hoping to wait out getting a new iPhone 6 until they stopped selling out and you could easily find them on shelves, you may be waiting longer than you expected.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the supply of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models being manufactured isn't close to being enough to sate consumer appetites, according to a report this week on CNET. Even after a month of being on the market, the phone will still likely be tricky to get a hold of in the coming months, especially considering how well the phone is dong internationally.
Reports have been coming in since the phone's launch that Apple has started turning additional resources toward increasing the production of the new iPhones, sometimes to the detriment of the company's other products. Earlier, a report surfaced that said Apple is delaying production of a new, larger iPad to be able to use those manufacturing resources to churn out more iPhones. There were even reports early on in the phone's lifespan that production for iPhone 6 models is planning to drop to help increase production on the iPhone 6 Plus, which has seen more success than Apple had anticipated.
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According to the CNET report, both the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are selling out every unit produced, with neither device looking to gain a supply edge over consumer demand any time soon.
"It's not a bad problem to have," Cook said.