Is Apple Helping its Rivals to Sell More Phones During Lunar New Year ?

By Star Chang, posted January 20, 2012 at 12:39 AM, 482 views

Apple is properly missing out on the Chinese New Year sales ‌in China. Apple stopped selling all iPhones at its five China outlets on Jan. 13 after customers pelted the flagship store in Beijing with eggs because the company had cancelled the opening sales for the iPhone 4S. Pulling all iPhones from the company retail stores, it will give its competitors a potential boost during the country most important gift-giving season. According to the government statistics, the one-week new years holiday, which begins Jan. 23, had generated $64 billion in retail sales last year …

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BREAKING: Apple Cancels iPhone 4S Launch in Beijing After Fight Breaks Out Between Scalpers

By Chris Chang, posted January 12, 2012 at 7:00 PM, 12,352 views

Lines outside the Apple store in Beijing’s Sanlitun district show no signs of shortening, causing frustration for the thousands of fans and scalpers desperate to get their hands on the iPhone 4S. Now some of that disappointment is turning to anger, with reports of fights breaking out between gangs of scalpers, and guess what, Beijing SWAT teams arrived. So, the Apple store employees later announced that the launch of iPhone 4S is cancelled at the Apple’s flagship store in Beijing, and all scalpers are pissed.

UPDATE: More info, photos, and video.

Herman Lai contributed to this report.

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China’s Knockoff Disneyland Is A Deadman Wonderland (video)

By Chris Chang, posted January 12, 2012 at 6:01 PM, 1,868 views

The official Shanghai Disneyland is scheduled to open in 2016, but there is already a Disneyland knockoff in China today. Called the Wonderland, it is situated on the outskirts of Beijing (45 minutes drive), and it was supposed ‘the largest amusement park in Asia’. Yup, it was supposed to be… however, the construction stopped more than a decade ago, due to land disputes and insufficient funds. Now, it’s a deadman wonderland that is waiting for Walt Disney to destroy. Feel free to take a video tour of the dilapidated fantasy park after the break.

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Chinese iPhone 4S Fanboy Sells Apples On Streets

By Chris Chang, posted January 12, 2012 at 3:35 PM, 987 views

Selling fruits is pretty common on sidewalk around the cities of China, but in Beijing, we see a man selling apples in a phenomenal way. He just loves iPhone 4S. Two more photos after the break.

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Gang of Red Cap Scalpers Crushes Shanghai Apple Store for iPhone 4S Launch (video!)

By Chris Chang, posted January 12, 2012 at 12:45 PM, 4,888 views

OMFG. Huge lines for the iPhone 4S are seen at all five Apple stores in China, and in the Beijing Apple store, we see hundreds of queuers with red caps getting ready to buy the iPhone 4S to resell later at a profit. A lot of photos and video after the break.

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Chinese Writers Challenging Apple App Store Moves Ahead

By Herman Lai, posted January 8, 2012 at 1:54 PM, 451 views

Apple is currently facing a lawsuit in a Beijing court after officials accepted a case filed from nine well-known Chinese writers, as the writers found unauthorized versions of their works have been submitted to the App Store and that the company is directly profiting from sales of illegal downloads of the books.

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Will Beijing Become The World’s Most Leading Cloud Computing Center?

By Herman Lai, posted December 21, 2011 at 2:56 PM, 256 views

Since 2007, the concept of cloud computing had already been widely discussed and has become the IT industry’s hottest keyword. American firms like Amazon and Google may have pioneered cloud computing, but the Beijing city’s government hopes to dominate the industry, so they had already built a 7,800 square meter complex called “Cloud Valley” in southern Beijing as the base for cloud computing.

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Brave Chinese Postman Swaps Client’s iPhone 4S package with a REAL Brick (Video)

By Herman Lai, posted November 17, 2011 at 12:33 PM, 1,888 views

The victim, a man from Guangzhou, who bought an iPhone 4S in Canada and shipped it as a gift to his girlfriend in Beijing. However, when his girlfriend received the package, the seal went missing and it sought damaged and ripped. When she opened the package, she cannot find an iPhone inside but a real brick appeared. The couples had already called up the post office (EMS) for reparation, and the company also agreed with their request. This is really weird! Animation after the break.

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Scalpers Selling iPhone 4S Outside Beijing Apple Store

By Chris Chang, posted November 15, 2011 at 9:13 PM, 1,526 views

Apple has as yet to launch its new iPhone 4S in China, but the device is already selling by scalpers outside the Beijing Apple store at whopping prices of up to about US$1,100, and Apple is trying to tell customers: DO NOT BUY the iPhone 4S from these scalpers.

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China Opens a New “Post Office” Above The Earth

By Herman Lai, posted November 7, 2011 at 12:02 PM, 334 views

While celebrating the latest achievement of its first ever docking in space between the unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft and Tiangong-1 space lab module, China opened a new post office outside of the country and out of the earth, 343 kilometers above the Earth. Are you looking forward to post your letter to the outer space?

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