“When the supersized iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus go on sale in just over a week in 10 countries around the globe, one will be missing: China, the world’s biggest smartphone market, home to hundreds of millions of consumers who love the kind of plus-sized phones that Apple is now selling,” Lily Kuo reports for Quartz. “According to Apple’s release plans, the new iPhone will be released in Hong Kong on Sept 19, along with the US, Australia, Japan, and other countries, but won’t go on sale in mainland China until sometime later this year.”
“It’s an odd move given that last year Apple launched the iPhone 5 in China and the US almost simultaneously,” Kuo reports. “One explanation is that rumored supply-chain difficulties may have limited the supply of Apple’s new phones, and the company made a strategic decision to delay its roll-out there—ironic given that the phone is assembled in China in the first place.”
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“The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus go on sale Sept. 19 in 10 countries: the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore and the UK,” Zach Wener-Fligner and Dan Frommer report for Quartz. “Apple said the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus will be available in 115 countries by the end of the year.”
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