Glass half empty or half full. Yes, it's frustrating to wait while others have their phones. Yet to think of how much demand they DO meet to get more than 9million devices to every corner of the globe within days let alone a few weeks vs taking months. I believe Apple is the only company that CAN do what they do- and keep doing more and better every year. People wait because they know that it will be worth it- their device will be beautiful and it will work. If they were producing junk, they would have been over years ago.
Even for Apple, there are PEOPLE making these phones - living in dorms, working long hours for wages we would scoff at, under conditions we would not accept for a nanosecond. There are limits- yet despite real, human limits, look what Apple continues to do, year after year. Just sayin...
We start to take for granted what CAN happen and DOES happen - because we don't notice all that goes right. Like walking around with a computer in the palm of your hand - more powerful than all the computers combined that ran all the space shuttles. Seriously: each shuttle ran on four 386 computers - for those who remember 386s., You have more computing power in your car, in your house, in your office, and yes- in your pocket, in your iPhone.
Multiply by 9 million in launch weekend - and how many more thereafter. And Apple is way more than just iPhones- and all of Apple keeps working flawlessly before, during, and after a launch. And one can sit in their LaZBoy and watch their individual phone make it's way around the world -from factory to their door. And it will get there when they say it will. And within second of unboxing, with a few swipes, (still in the LaZBoy) - it will work. That's a lot going right, my friend.
Good luck- I do hope you have a 5s in hand soon!