How long does it take to get an iPhone?1 In September 2012, Apple, the largest consumer electronics company in the world and the largest company in the U.S. in market capitalization, formally announced the iPhone 5, the sixth generation of the
!Phone and successor to the popular !Phone 4S.The hype over
the new phone was so high that pre-orders swamped Apple's ability to get enough phones from its factory in ZhengZhou, a city in the north-central region of China. Mandy Xiao was living in Provo, Utah at the time and wanted to get the phone by Christmas of 2012, so she ordered the phone directly from Apple.com on December 5. The factory in ZhengZhou is actu ally owned by Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd.,also known as the Foxconn Technology Group.