Well duh. With 4x the population of the US why wouldn't Chinese sales overtake the US's?
Apple expects Chinese sales 'to overtake US'
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#13Well duh. With 4x the population of the US why wouldn't Chinese sales overtake the US's?
China is a lot poorer.
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#15Interesting. It seems to me that in the United States, many people have relatively advanced cell phones and a computer. But in many places in China, this isn't yet the case. So while Apple might sell more products in China in the short term, it's hard to say that this will be the case in the long term. For example, Apple will never sell so many iPods as it did in the past, since so many people these days have an MP3…
Uh... it's only going to increase as the economy grows. Sorry, but I think you are in denial. When was the last time you've been to China?
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
China is a lot poorer.
Have you been there recently?!
They still are poorer on average, but the middle class pop. is approaching the pop. of America. And people will own an iPhone before they own a car....so the barista at Starbucks pulling down < 3000RMB/month (< $500) will have one.
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#17Interesting. It seems to me that in the United States, many people have relatively advanced cell phones and a computer. But in many places in China, this isn't yet the case. So while Apple might sell more products in China in the short term, it's hard to say that this will be the case in the long term. For example, Apple will never sell so many iPods as it did in the past, since so many people these days have an MP3…
Someone made this same argument to me 4 years ago when the first apple store opened in Beijing. Deja Vu I guess. Maybe apple is really a fad that will just die out on its own, but they've been saying that for years now.
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#18I will not be surprised if China overtakes US to become apple's biggest market. iPhone is so widely known across China that people in the village I was born can speak something about it. iPhone is showed off by many as a symbol of wealth and social statue, so they all want to possess one and many high schoolers in my school in China use iPhone as their phone. However, I'd rather like to see Xiaomi, an Android phone m…
The Xiaomi is a very low end phone, it is competing more with HTC and even Samsung, not Apple. Try have some pretty colors though, like the Nokia Lumias.
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#19Well duh. With 4x the population of the US why wouldn't Chinese sales overtake the US's?
China is a lot poorer.
There isn't one China, there are at least 2, maybe 3 chinas. Coastal China is industrialized, urbanized, modern, and wealthy. Inland China is poorer and less developed, and the remote provinces like Yunnan are just a few steps above seriously poor countries like Afghanistan or Haiti.
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#20I will not be surprised if China overtakes US to become apple's biggest market. iPhone is so widely known across China that people in the village I was born can speak something about it. iPhone is showed off by many as a symbol of wealth and social statue, so they all want to possess one and many high schoolers in my school in China use iPhone as their phone. However, I'd rather like to see Xiaomi, an Android phone m…
lol,look at my mouth,leijun ni mei,xiaomi ni mei...