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Apple CEO Cook: Company Has ‘A Ton More Energy’ in China

By: Loretta Chao

To China’s many–and sometimes violent –iPhone fans, Apple says the love is mutual.
Apple CEO Tim Cook emphasized the company’s focus on China during their earnings call on Tuesday, calling iPhone demand in the world’s largest mobile market “staggering.”
“I try to be very clear in the past and I’ll do so again that we have a ton more energy in the China market today” than in other emerging geographies, Mr. Cook said, as the company announced its highest quarterly revenue and earnings in history, the first quarter ending after the death of co-founder Steve Jobs.
“That doesn’t mean that there is a lack of effort or focus on the others. It just means that it’s less than what we’re investing in China today,” he said.
The company didn’t offer many details on its retail efforts in China this time, but had said last year that its China Apple Stores were receiving the most traffic and revenue on average than of any Apple Stores in the world.
Mr. Cook said Apple is “selling through our reseller stores and our online store” for the iPhone. The company stopped selling iPhones in its five retail stores in China this month shortly after launching the iPhone 4S because unruly customers in Beijing led police to seal off a store there. “The demand is off the charts.”
Though the company has had discussions with China’s other mobile carriers, Mr. Cook did not provide any information about when the iPhone might be launched with new partners in China. “China Unicom continues to be a very key partner,” he said. “I’ve got nothing to announce today on the expansion there.”
An iPhone compatible with the mobile network of China’ third-largest mobile carrier, China Telecom, cleared a key regulatory hurdle when it was awarded a network access license earlier this month.
Apple’s growing business has also attracted increasing scrutiny from environment and human rights activists, who have complained about conditions at its suppliers and criticized the company for a lack of transparency in its supply chain. Under this pressure, the company disclosed a list of 156 companies this month that represent more of its supply chain spending than ever before. Apple will also be opening its supply chain to an independent assessment by the the non-profit Fair Labor Association, the association said in a recent press release.
“China is an extremely important market for us and we continue to look at how to grow it further,” Mr. Cook said.

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whachel1976

2012-1-27 02:03:45

I don't care much about Apple. I just heard that many Chinese queued outside Apple franchised store for the latest product. And many of them are scalpers, who may resell the Apple product with about 500 yuan more each.
The propaganda in media and the appeared great demand aroused more concerns in ordinary people. One joke is that one guy saw many people queuing for something, he followed them, thinking they were buying train ticket, but finally found that they were queuing for Apple products. Faint!

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thetimekiller

2012-1-27 02:59:32

Sometimes I really don't understand why people are crazy about Iphone. I have to admit that there are so many rich people in China that never pay taxes, never surface and never care about ethics. it is a shame to see things like that.
There were rumors that Apple hire people to be online in order to make like the end of the world for apple products. True or not true, actually I am not that into that.

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2012-1-27 17:34:55

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