Near Riot At Beijing Apple Store As iPhone 4S Goes on Sale
- Posted by bbishop
- on January 12th, 2012
Apple ($AAPL) needs to rethink its launch plans in China, perhaps by launching simultaneously or near simultaneously in the US and China and by allocating much more supply to many more retail outlets in China. The government is not a fan of near riots, for whatever reason.
As I said on Twitter, Apple has a strange relationship with China:
apple needs armed police to manage the chinese workers who make their products & armed police to manage the chinese customers who buy them
— Bill Bishop (@niubi) January 13, 2012
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Bill Bishop is an American living in Beijing. He is bilingual and has experience working in both US and China. In 1997 he co-founded CBS MarketWatch and stayed until the sale in 2004 to Dow Jones. He was never a journalist, and instead worked in several business roles over the years, the last as head of the MarketWatch consumer Internet business. More »
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