Although we’ve heard talk of Apple’s plans to open 25 stores in China over the next two years, here’s proof: workers taking the wraps off a store built in Shaghai.
In April, Apple told investment analysts the company was ‘well pleased’ by its initial steps into the China market. Chief financial officer Tim Cook said iPhone sales were up 200 percent during the first half of 2009. Apple added 800 more distribution points and saw iPhone sales increased 9-fold to 2.1 million units.
Talk of Apple’s plans in China, however, likely won’t push the Foxconn suicide fiasco off the front pages. When last we looked, the Apple iPhone supplier was considering creating a new factory outside the region and increase worker pay. A Foxconn relative has also made rumblings of plans to open 100 Apple stores in China.
[via 9to5Mac]
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
