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What's the chance that sales of the iPhone 5 (assuming that is what Apple calls its next phone) will bomb? Buckley's!

Every now and then I disagree so strongly with a colleague at iTWire or at other sites and publications that I feel compelled to call shenanigans on their work.

An article published over the weekend at iphonetouch.blorge.com entitled 'iPhone 5: 7 ways Apple’s next-generation device could bomb' is a case in point.

I realise that I criticise other people's work, I got to be prepared for criticism of your own - so if you think there are any flaws in this analysis, please point them out in a comment below.

Andrew Dodson presented what he called "7 ways the iPhone 5 could totally bomb" - except that they are no such thing.

1: "iPhone preorders won't be taken right away"

It would indeed be unusual if Apple didn't start taking orders as soon as it reveals the new iPhone.

But even if it didn't, that wouldn't make it a bomb - almost everyone that would have (pre-)ordered an iPhone 5 will still do so.

Effect on sales: negligible.

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Stephen Withers is one of Australia¹s most experienced IT journalists, having begun his career in the days of 8-bit 'microcomputers'. He covers the gamut from gadgets to enterprise systems. In previous lives he has been an academic, a systems programmer, an IT support manager, and an online services manager. Stephen holds an honours degree in Management Sciences, a PhD in Industrial and Business Studies, and is a senior member of the Australian Computer Society.

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