Apple: When Cracking is Loving
Computer Reseller News reports:
After announcing its second quarter earnings on Wednesday, Apple COO Tim Cook told analysts and investors that the company expects to hit its target and sell 10 million iPhones this year, and that unlocked iPhones are just evidence of the phone’s popularity.
“We’re confident on hitting the 10 million for the year,” said [...]
Apple in China: Retailing the Mac Daddy
China Tech News reports:
Apple’s (AAPL) first store-in-store in mainland China has been unveiled at the Best Buy store in Shanghai’s Xuhui area.
By opening this store-in-store for Apple, Best Buy is intending to consolidate its position in the middle and high-end market of China and adopt a different operation pattern from Chinese domestic electronic appliance retailers. [...]
China Telecom’s WiFi Goes South
China Tech News reports:
China Telecom will initiate a new round of bidding in the 21 provinces in southern China to speed up the development of Wi-Fi base stations.
A top manager from Guangdong Telecom, a subsidiary of China Telecom, has confirmed the news and said that they will take big moves on wireless network construction this [...]
Apple Air in Shanghai
Shanghai Daily reports:
Apple, which plans to open its first Apple Store in Beijing later this year, sold its first MacBook Air, starting from 16,988 yuan (US$2,392), in Shanghai yesterday even though the Air price hasn’t been updated in its Chinese-language Website.
A week or two ago, on my way out to dinner, I saw an ad [...]
China Laptops: Rumors of War
Marbridge Daily reports:
Vice president Zhang Hui of Lenovo’s (0992.HK) global consumer notebook division revealed recently that the company intends to change its notebook assembly strategy, moving from the old model, in which notebooks were produced at EMS plants in Taiwan and assembled and shipped out by Lenovo, to a new model under which assembly and [...]
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