Cloned In China

China is currently seeing a rise in affluence and changing consumer preferences. This is reportedly instigating a rapid surge in revenues with more and more people buying Apple products. The growth can be seen from the following figures. In the fiscal year of 2009, only 2% of Apple’s sales took place in China. The next year however, this number rose to 12% and then as high as 16% in the last quarter. This is an annual rise of 270% and in the last 12 months, the nation has yielded $13bn for Apple. When you measure this against the $3bn figure a year earlier, you can see that this has been a significant rise.

New CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, has said that he has never seen a country that has this many people who buy Apple products. The rise in technology in many different countries all over the world is apparent, with many people owning mobile phones they purchased from the O2 website, or carrying laptops around with them. However, the specificity with which residents of China are going for Apple products is interesting. Cook has recognised that there are more and more people in this country who are rising to the middle class and aspiring to own a product that Apple has made.

Apple are now very eager to keep this success going and are placing additional investment here. Being the world’s most highly populated nation, China provides a very valuable opportunity for Apple to grow even larger than it is now. Apple has recently revealed its first branded retail branch in Hong Kong, as well as one in Shanghai. There are now more than 200 Apple Premium Resellers or chains that only sell Apple goods, as well as around 7,000 points of sale. An official e-commerce platform went live at the end of 2010 and by the looks of it, there is more expansion to come.

Pictures about Beijing Apple store conflict between employees and queuing customers have been circling on the web, but because of the language obstacle some English reports seem quite away from the fact. most of them said the injured customers are scalpers, but this is not confirmed by any Chinese media. The conflict was happened around [...]

Though the Chinese again and again told its people China now is a most powerful country on the world, and Apple don’t have enough iPhone 4 supply for China market, but for most people in this country, devices like iPhone and iPad are still luxury, and have no extra money to buy them. So when [...]

You are very probably not the first time hearing about Yosion’s Apple Peel 520, an very powerful iPod Touch case that’s able to turn iPad touch into a real phone. Today, Yosion started to ship this product in China, and the price is 520 Yuan (about $77 USD), a bit higher than the previously reported [...]

Sounds very unbelievable, but may be your eyes are convincing you to believe this. Now this video are being discussed on Tencent’s microblog. Many people doubt it, and some suspects that it’s just that HTC magic remotely control an iPhone. Well remote control is still not easy to do on smartphones, even not easier than [...]

Stone is a developer from China Tencent company, the owner of China’s most popular IM software QQ. He’s invited to WWDC2010. During the conference he got robbed on a bus in San Francisco.In the fight with the robber, he got hurt with rib broken, and his iPad was badly scratched. In an email that responed [...]

Apple hasn’t decided to bring its iPad to China Mainland yet, but it seems they get trademark problem to be fixed before they do that. The iPad trademark in China currently is owned by Shenzhen Proview company, who has registered this trademark since 2000 year, for computer and camera related consumer electronics products. According to [...]

Now this video ‘The secret mission of the terminator’ with great 3D effects is circulating on Chinese websites. In the video the terminator was on the mission of damaging Apple’s Beijing store. But it’s too hungry to move so it begged nearby with a ‘$ only’ plate. Finally it got a coin but the Coca [...]

When Apple was still in talks with China’s carriers to bring iPhone into China, we’ve heard reports that Apple selling iPhone in China might face legal troubles in future, because the ‘i-phone’ trademark was owned by Hanvon ( also known as Hanwang) company and has been used on some telephone sets. About a month ago, [...]

Reported by Chinese tech website PCPOP, Foxconn is building WPAI version iPhone for China Unicom. WAPI iPhone is assembling in Foxconn’s factories with a codename N88. It’s also mentioned that the 4th generation iPhone’s codename is N90. WAPI is a Chinese National Standard for Wireless, which is also compatible to the worldwide used standard Wi-Fi. [...]