【彭博社0113】北京苹果店被鸡蛋砸场 iphone发售推迟

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Beijing Apple Store Pelted With Eggs on IPhone Delay                                                                          http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-12/apple-iphone-4s-beijing-debut-delayed-as-main-store-unopened.html
By                    Bloomberg News                 -                                Jan 13, 2012 10:08 AM GMT+0800                          
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A man yells and gestures outside an Apple Inc. store in Beijing. Apple sold 5.6 million iPhones in China in the first nine months of last year, giving it a 10.4 percent share of the smartphone market in the third quarter. Photographer: Nelson Ching/Bloomberg

                  
                                                

                            Apple Inc. (AAPL), whose skill at hypingnew products has helped make it the world’s most valuabletechnology company, became a victim of its own success with abotched introduction of its iPhone 4S in China.
Would-be customers who had endured a wait overnight astemperatures dropped to below minus 9 degrees Celsius reactedwith fury after the company’s main store in Beijing failed toopen.
Apple had advertised that the store would open at 7 a.m. Atabout 7:15 a.m., people began chanting “Open the door!” and“Liars!” after a man with a bullhorn said the phone would notgo on sale today, without giving an explanation. Police cordonedoff the store after it was pelted with eggs from the crowd.
Elsewhere in the capital, the introduction went moresmoothly. At Apple’s store in the Xidan neighborhood, thecompany handed out 1,000 tickets good for the purchase of amaximum two iPhone 4S handsets. In Shanghai, a store in thePudong district opened an hour early to accommodate the waitingcrowds.
Carolyn Wu, a Beijing-based Apple spokeswoman, didn’timmediately respond to telephone calls and e-mails.
At the main store in Beijing, security guards who tried tostop the egg throwing were chased away by the crowds.
Apple sold 5.6 million iPhones in China in the first ninemonths of last year, giving it a 10.4 percent share of thesmartphone market in the third quarter, according to researchcompany Gartner Inc. Apple’s Wu earlier declined to comment onthe outlook for iPhone 4S sales in China.
Online Sales China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd., the nation’s second-largestcarrier, is the only one of the country’s three serviceproviders offering the iPhone with a service contract. Thecompany sent a text message to subscribers trumpeting free homedelivery of the new handset through its online store.
“Buy the iPhone 4S without lining up!” China Unicom (762) saidin a text sent to subscribers in Beijing. Unicom’s online shopmade the device available at midnight, the text said.
The site lists the 16-gigabyte model for 5,880 yuan ($930),with different levels of subsidies. The handset is free to userscommitting to a three-year plan for 286 yuan a month or a two-year plan costing 386 yuan a month, the website said.



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