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With iPhone 5 being Apple's sixth iPhone, and with Apple CEO Tim Cook being the acknowledged

king of the supply chain, how is it the company is once again

looking at a sizable gap between supply and demand for this year's model? The piece

from Bloomberg has IHS I supply analyst Tom Dingies saying it's all tied up with the

phone's super thin display. Upside of the phone's in cell screen, it makes the whole device

thinner and lighter while at the same time offering a sharper image the downside

Boy are they tough to make and Apple's got three companies making them

LG display Japan display and sharp companies making them. LG Display, Japan Display, and Sharp, though Sharp seems to be having

the most trouble of the three, according to the report. Despite the bottleneck, it's hard

to feel bad for Apple. Dingies says the amount of money Apple spends on components means it will get as many as

it needs as soon as they're available.

Quoting the analyst, it's a problem that everybody else would love to have,

even if you're going to run into some areas where there are supply shortages,

Apple is going to get a disproportionate amount of the available supply, they are your best customer. But Bloomberg

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