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Apple Online Store Opens In China

Posted by on Oct 27, 2010 | 6 Comments

Apple has now opened a special store for Chinese customers. This dedicated store offers the same products from the US store including the iPad, iPhone 4, iPod, and Mac computers. The online store is decked out with free personal engraving on any iPod or iPad and custom configuration on Macs. This store, like the US store, even offers free shipping.

It is believed that Apple released this store to strengthen its position in China. As we remember a couple of months ago, Lenovo founder Liu Chuanzhi criticized Apple for neglecting the Chinese market. As a rebuttal to that criticism Apple is definitely showing improvement in the Chinese arena.

In addition to launching the Chinese version of its online store, it has translated its App Store to the Simplified Chinese format. On the last part of the announcement Apple stated that it is planning to open 25 stores in China.

For everything Apple China related you can visit the dedicated site at apple.com.cn.

  • melchor

    Is it okay to put part of this on my page if I post a link back to this page?

  • http://twitter.com/iMarkF1 Mark Dalton

    but at the moment you cant upgrade unless you are a developer anyway so we will all be waiting until the fall either way as it hasnt been released yet, only seeded to the developers and to be honest people who try any of the unoffical work arounds to get the developer seed online is risking ruining their phone entirely as they shouldnt be doing it in the first place

  • http://www.speakapple.net Ben Rubery

    Luckily for me I have a couple of developer friends. The beta works okay.

    But for those bricked, as I attempted the first time round, putting your iDevice in DFU mode and restoring from backup resolves the issue.

  • doug matthews

    good article and i thoroughly agree with every word

  • http://twitter.com/plotikai James Murphy

    On the iPad and iPod this is true, however this is not true on the iPhone. I found that the cellular radio actually remains disabled until the iPhone is activated, which cannot be done without registering your device as a developers device.

  • http://technology-question.blogspot.com Appleinfoexpert

    I agree
    On everything you
    Said. You told them mostly it’s a beta it not ready it only made for testing.