the iphone six plus is on backorder. apple says it will not ship for three or four weeks. demand was so great that the website had problems loading. investors appear to be buying into alibaba's ipo. the company has enough demand to sell its stock at the high end of its $60 to its $66 range according to people with knowledge of the matter. the ceo is in san francisco. we are learning more about the tense relationship between tech companies and the nsa. the government threatens to find yahoo $250,000 today if it did not turn over user data. this happened in 2008. we will look at what changed since then. to the lead story. the biggest iphone appears to be off to a hot start. the device is on backorder and is not expected to ship for three or four weeks. the data phone is scheduled to hit stores. people vented on twitter. one tweeted -- not everyone having problems but with the issues, is it a supply couple more are they trying to drum up demand? what do you think, is this marketing or do they have supply issues? >> every single time they come out with a phone this happens. i

to the apple website the device is on backorder and isn't expected ship -- expected to ship for another three weeks. in addition apple's website had some issues due to all the traffic. one user tweeted to me -- not everyone having problems. apple facing a supply chain problem or is it a way to drum up demand? joining me as cory johnson. is this a marketing stunt or do they have supply issues here? >> every time they come out with an iphone this happens. this is the way they probably wanted it to play out. would be a disaster if it were two or three months. >> is this an indication the six plus is going to be the most popular phone? them all without a doubt people want a larger phone. if you travel in asia you realize half the world is there. we are behind. of the people who left the ios for android did so for a bigger phone. there is clearly a hole in their product line. we talked about this at the end of the show. there are still mined countries where the initial phone releases going towards. -- arerevious new phone they not in china because it is not approved in china yet or because o

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the orders, the backorders by the millions.s any of this matter to apple because they're selling these devices anyway? >> yeah, so, doesn't matter to apple, of course it matters to apple. they want to keep customers happy. and the people who work at apple are extremely intelligent and diligent what they're doing. they will figure this out. you're asking me does this matter to apple. they are doing fine. stock is floating around $100 a share, they sold over 10 million of the devices over the weekend. it's a pr headache, they have to figure that out. the new updates will come out and this will all be great. i'm excited for the next one. a lot of the features, this is a really, really cool product that a lot of us can get a lot of use out of. ashley: when it works perfectly, it's better. luis, thanks so much. >> wonderful. ashley: thank you for your input. here is our question tonight, has apple lost its shine? log onto gerriwillis.com, i'll share the results at the end of tonight's show. still to come, we answer the question, is

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