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The iPad's soggy launch in China
Heavy rains -- and a lively grey market -- may have dampened the turnout in Beijing
There were plenty of reporters but only about 100 customers queued up outside Apple's (AAPL) Beijing retail outlet at 8 a.m. Friday when sales of the iPad officially began in China.
The first customer, Han Ziwen, wearing a blue "I BUY IPAD NO 1" T-shirt, was mobbed by the press as he emerged with MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 17, 2010 5:56 AM ET -
Inside Beijing's iPhone black market
iPhoneAsia's Dan Butterfield takes readers on a tour of China's electronics jungle
"There's no room for the meek," writes Dan Butterfield in a dispatch from Beijing's Zhongguancun-region electronics malls.
"Picture four or five Manhattan-sized Macy's department stores filled to the rafters with electronics outlets and sundry other goods. Untold thousands of shoppers fill these stores each day. From the moment you walk in the door (if you look like money or are MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 17, 2009 8:31 AM ET
