“A year after opening a flagship store here, Apple has a problem that any retailer would envy: the huge 16,000-square-foot space is already too small,” David Barboza reports for The New York Times.
“Huge crowds descend the store’s glass staircase, only to discover legions of mostly young Chinese crowding around spare displays of Apple’s devices,” Barboza reports. “Another Apple Store, four miles away, is also packed.”
Barboza reports, “To cope, Apple says it is now planning a third, even larger Shanghai store, as well as dozens of other stores throughout the country… Analysts say few global brands have achieved such a feat in China. ‘Apple has done what Google and Facebook cannot do: become No. 1 in China,’ said John Quelch, former senior associate dean of Harvard Business School and now head of the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai. ‘Scarcity sells, and this is the same strategy Apple has used in the U.S.'”
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“Last week, Apple reported blockbuster sales and profits in its third quarter, including $3.8 billion in revenue in greater China, which includes Taiwan and Hong Kong,” Barboza reports. “For the first three quarters of Apple’s fiscal year, revenue in greater China was $8.8 billion — six times that of a year earlier. Last quarter, Apple may have even generated more revenue in China than Lenovo — the Chinese PC maker.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Citymark” for the heads up.]
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Why does this not surprise me? I bet if apple were to sell it’s products in a third world country such as the Philipeses, the sales there would top samsung’s and any other Asian company’s sale in that country.
Philipeses – I’m a fan of their screwdrivers.
That comment really torx me off!
you guys are killing me
Total Annihilation. !!! Yeaaaaaa
…..said John Quelch, former senior associate dean of Harvard Business School and now head of the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai. “Scarcity sells, and this is the same strategy Apple has used in the U.S.’”
What a twit this so called John Quelch is. Does he really think SCARCITY caused the CROWDS instead of the other way round; that the crowds caused scarcity. He seems to imply that if MS, DELL or RIMM just caused scarcity of their products then they too could have sought after products.
Is it really this easy to become a dean of Harvard Business School?
Nicely said, Paul. No kiddin’.
Spot on. Apple has high quality products. THAT’S what sells! Google and Facebook have no products they are just selling people, and China already has lots of those.
How man M’s in RIM?
hey! it’s scarce because everyone wants one! scarcity is a result not a cause.
I was just in the beautiful Shanghai store, its packed, with people sitting down around the circular staircase downstairs, and all the Macs, iPads in use. I chatted with one of the salespeople (in English) about upgrading my Macbook to a MBP, and tested out some of the gestures in Lion (worst one: the Launchbar pinch motion, others are fine). Of course, the iPads are now used at everytable to compared stats on various models (spec sheets, etc).
They have hit one out of the park with that store, and it’s got almost nothing to do with the cool architecture.
THANK GOD, because Boner is gonna make sure this country goes to shit…
Republicans – Stupidly criminal
Democrats – Criminally stupid
Take your pick, we are stuck with ’em.
@G Spanking,
Nah, he’ s just trying to save us from Prez Urkel and his party the Doofuses. Don’t worry, once your entitlement check runs out, you can wash my car.
🙂
@Janice
Thank you for administering the well deserved spanking to the adolescent gSpank.
Yeah, because calling the freely elected POTUS “Prez Urkel” is the height of adult behavior.
Idiots.
You are right. It is not fair to Steve Urkel to compare him to our current President, who has spent trillions more than we have, and blames the guy he replaced on the promise that he was the Messiah, who could lower the sea level and bring peace and prosperity to the world. Urkel was never that arrogant or stupid. But O is.
one of the more stupid threads I’ve ever seen here at MDN
take it to Faux News
I can imagine you clapping when the USA’s economy goes to hell. Osama bin Laden smiling in his grave.
Obamo v. Boener:
Innate intelligence v. A block of wood.