We know that products of Apple are popular all around the world. Its creativity, convenient operation and beautiful external appearance have attracted many fans. However, things are even terrible in China, people lined up all the night in front of Apple store before iPhone 4S released in China. At that time, the temperature was about 0 degree below. The low temperature could not still lower the spirits of people who want to buy an iPhone 4s.
Unlocked Phones of Apple sell fast in Apple store and other marketing channel, while in the hall of Union—a mobile service provider, locked phones are still hot. People are quite happy and excited when they line up for an iPhone 4s. In Beijing, a lot of scalpers lined up quite early in the crowd of buyers in order to make money from iPhone, all of which wear yellow scarves on their arms to identify each other. It seems that as long as they can buy the phones, they will make money from the phones.
Why iPhone is so popular and hot in China? In fact, iPhone is more than just a phone in China, sometimes; it represents the wealth of people and can satisfy vanity of people. In big cities of China, you can see most of people are using iPhones on the subway and bus. It seems if you do not use that phone, you will be different and may not blend into people around you. All of those above make the phone hot in China; the situation is like bulk Wholesale. Huge quantities of phones are bought by them.
We can see the scene only a few years ago in Shenzhen, China. People rush to buy the cheap phones called China copy phones made by some small factories. Retailers went to Shenzhen for wholesale and buy the cheap phones using the measure units of kilos instead of numbers. That means, when a person went to buy the phones, the seller would take out scales instead of counting them. The China Electronics Wholesale factories did earn a lot of money last few years because there are 1 billion farmers and peasant workers in rural areas. Most of them are the main consumers of that kind of phone.
Back to topic, iPhone now is still the most popular phone in the world, but as Steve Jobs passed away, will it keep on or something else, we do not know. But android phones are still competitive, such as phones of Samsung and Moto. They also have a good share of the smart phones market. And as the release of some flagship phones, will iPhone still be the first of the phone list, we will see.
