Apple design to open a new company depot in Beijing this coming Saturday , ahead of a likely launch of the iPhone 5 in this big market for the ship’s company .
The company already has five stores in mainland China , but in the past these have n’t rise to be enough during high-pitched - profile merchandise launch .
Apple posted information on the new store on itswebsite . Once it afford , Apple will have three stores in Beijing , with the other three located in Shanghai . The company also has two other stores in Hong Kong , where iPhone 5 sales have already begun .
prescribed sales of the iPhone 5 in mainland China have yet to start , with the machine still look approval from certain regulatory departments in the rural area . Customers wanting to corrupt the iPhone 5 have resort to purchase the product from gray market vender , who bring in product from extraneous mainland China only to trade at a high price .
The possibility of the new store could help facilitate the sometimes huge demand for Apple products . In January , Apple ’s launch of the iPhone 4S at its shop in Beijing ’s Sanlitun territorial dominion attracted a monolithic throng of people , thrust the storage to abruptly cancel the twist ’s sale . In response , one customerthrew egg at the store , resulting in Apple temporarily debar all iPhone 4S sales at all its strong-arm computer memory in China .
Apple has previously said China has become the companionship ’s secondly - largest market behind the U.S. The company ’s new store in Beijing will be located in Wangfujing , a major shopping area in the heart of the capital not far from the Forbidden City .
To help oneself avoid skirmishes at its stores , Apple in July implemented a new reservation scheme for customers want to purchase its later rendering of the iPad . Sales of the gimmick at Apple ’s Sanlitun storeproceeded smoothlyon launch Clarence Day .
