Apple has introduced shortly after the introduction of the iPhone 4S in China in physical sales in its stores in Beijing and Shanghai stopped. Consumers should provisionally order online, because the long lines at the physical sales lead to problems.
In a statement let Apple know that the physical sales, as yet, not resumes, to ensure the safety of customers and employees to ensure. The manufacturer calls on customers to order the iPhone 4S online. It is also possible to the device via carrier China Unicom to buy or through Apple resellers.
In Beijing were eggs thrown and slogans chanted, after Apple-employees omriepen that the store would not open. Due to the large amount of people, the police had to attend to it to the crowd to disperse. Then, the access to the shop closed. There were about sixty people in the row have been in command of resellers have an iPhone 4S had to get. Because they have no device managed to get they got, despite the twelve hours of waiting, they will not be paid.
It is not unusual that the introduction of a new Apple product to long queues for the shops. Normally this will not, however, for large problems. The iPhone 4S is in the Netherlands already since the end of October to purchase. It is not known when the sales in the Apple stores in Shanghai and Beijing is resumed.
