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Apple plans to open 25 new retail stores in China over the next 24 months
Apple’s annual shareholders meeting too place earlier today in Cupertino, with Steve Jobs and other executives fielding questions on a varying number of issues. Of particular interest are Apple’s plans to open up 25 new retail stores in China, though Ron Johnson, Apple’s Senior VP of Retail didn’t specify the timeframe for such plans. Apple’s first retail store [...]
Continue reading...China Unicom iPhone sales surpass 300,000 units
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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After getting off to a lackluster start, sales of the iPhone via China Unicom seem to be picking up steam. China Unicom is China’s second largest mobile carrier behind China Mobile and when it began selling the iPhone in early November, the expectations were high. But after first week sales clocked in at a paltry [...]
Continue reading...China Mobile still interested in selling the iPhone
Thursday, November 19, 2009
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The iPhone is somewhat reminiscent of the Sirens from Greek mythology. Try as you might to ignore it and try as you might to convince yourself that you don’t need it, you can’t help but be drawn back under the spell of its seductive powers. If you’re a consumer, you want an iPhone because, point [...]
Continue reading...How Apple miscalculated the iPhone’s debut in China
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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Last week we reported that iPhone sales in China got off to a lukewarm start, with China Unicom reporting that they only sold about 5,000 devices in the first week since Apple’s iconic smartphone officially went on sale. When the iPhone typically goes on sale in a country for the first time, scenes of crowded Apple [...]
Continue reading...Report: China Unicom only sells 5,000 iPhones on launch
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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China Unicom announced on Tuesday that it had only managed to sell 5,000 iPhones since the device first launched in China last week. China Unicom is China’s second largest mobile carrier, and though they’re publicly saying that they’re satisfied with iPhone sales thus far, you can’t help but peg the initial sales as disappointing given [...]
Continue reading...iPhone sales get off to slow start in China
Monday, November 2, 2009
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Apple has had its eye on the Chinese smartphone market and its 700+ million subscriber base for some time now, but the iPhone’s debut in Beijing last week has gotten off to a relatively slow start. The Wall Street Journal reports that despite a noticeable interest in the new phone, stores weren’t experiencing sellouts, which has [...]
Continue reading...Report: Apple engineers ramp up visits to China in anticipation of upcoming tablet release
Thursday, October 29, 2009
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Silicon Alley Insider, citing an anonymous source, reports that Apple engineers have been travelling abroad to China with increasing frequency to check up on the manufacturing process of the upcoming Apple tablet. Indeed, a source tells us a system integration engineer friend of his at Apple has been ramping up his travels back and forth between [...]
Continue reading...iPhone rate plans on China Unicom to vary wildly in price, as high as $130 and as low as $18.50
Monday, September 28, 2009
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In the next few days, the iPhone is finally expected to go on sale in China via the country’s second largest telecom provider, China Unicom. Getting the iPhone into China was certainly a huge accomplishment for Apple as it opens the door to millions of potential new customers. One of the more interesting things we’ve [...]
Continue reading...Analyst: iPhone in China could boost Apple EPS by 4 cents a share
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
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With the iPhone set to arrive in China sometime during the 4th quarter, analysts are already trying to figure out the extent of Apple’s deal with China Unicom on Apple’s bottom line. While there’s no way to predict how the iPhone will perform in the Chinese market, USB analyst Maynard Um speculated in a note [...]
Continue reading...Greg Joswiak heads to China with team of Apple execs as iPhone launch nears
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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Apple’s Vice President of iPod and iPhone Product Marketing, Greg Joswiak, is in China with a team of other Apple executives to meet with officials from China Unicom to discuss plans for the upcoming iPhone launch in China, according to a report in the International Business Times.
Continue reading...Foxconn suicide raises issue of Chinese counterfeits
Thursday, July 30, 2009
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It’s been about a week since a Foxconn employee committed suicide after losing a fourth generation iPhone prototype he was responsible for. Since then, a number of issues have been raised about Apple’s prevailing culture of secrecy and the working conditions of Chinese employees who help manufacture Apple products. The missing iPhone that was at the [...]
Continue reading...Report: iPhone officially coming to China in September via China Unicom
Monday, July 27, 2009
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Update: China Unicom spokesman Sophia Tso says an agreement hasn’t been reached yet, noting that “Discussions are still ongoing, we have not reached any formal agreement.” After months of speculation, it appears that the iPhone will finally be coming to China in September. According to the Shanghai Securities News, Apple was able to secure a [...]
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
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