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What is the significant financial impact? Have apple reported any? The phone has been out in Australia for 2 weeks and is still constantly sold out at every single phone store, with no signal problems reported at all on our cellular networks.

http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/?tag=I4Stock shows how much this thing is still selling.

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Unless the impact is "material" (an accounting term of art: "Information important enough to change an investor's decision" http://www.ais-cpa.com/glosa.html) then they won't be reporting it. It could be big enough to sting, and more importantly big enough to do intangible brand damage, without it being material.

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