The mysterious failure of Apple’s iPhone 5c

Less than a month after it first went on sale, Apple’s refreshed, moderately enhanced iPhone 5c has been targeted as possibly being a failure in scores of reports across a wide variety of major news outlets, even drawing comparisons to Microsoft’s Surface flop. Can the company survive another 48 hours?

Less than a week after iPhone 5c went on sale, Adam Turner of the Australian Sydney Morning Herald asked “Is the iPhone 5c Apple’s Surface RT flop?”