The farsighted wait for Apple products in Beijing turn ugly over the weekend when a skirmish erupt outside one of the companionship ’s storage , resulting in a broken meth door and harm to client and one employee . Apple ’s iPad 2 had just gone on cut-rate sale , but it was the white iPhone 4 , released a hebdomad to begin with , that caused the trouble .
News of Saturday ’s incident has circulated in the local Chinese press , with exposure on the vane showing an Apple client bloodied and laying on the ground . A spokesman for Beijing ’s public security measure agency said on Monday that the party involve in the difference had settle the matter , but he gave no other item .
client expect to grease one’s palms Apple ’s iPad 2 on Monday , two days after a brush burst outside the Beijing store .
Customers wait to buy Apple’s iPad 2 on Monday, two days after a skirmish erupted outside the Beijing store.
Apple said in a program line that its Beijing store located in the Sanlitun territory closed for several hours on Saturday after a group outside of the store “ became unruly . ”
“ The entrepot team acted to protect themselves and our customers by close up the door and preventing the group from enter . The safety of our customer and employee is our top precedency , ” Apple said .
In the last two weeks , prospicient rail line have shape outside the Beijing Apple store for thelocal launch of the party ’s white iPhone 4 , and then the iPad 2 , which went on sale in the country on Friday . requirement for the products has been so neat that sales of the gimmick have also attracted scalpers , who touch off Saturday ’s encounter , grant to a source familiar with the incident .
According to that somebody , a man had tried three time to burn in occupation to buy the white iPhone 4 , and had been escort aside by Apple certificate . The man then shoved and grabbed one of the security workers , who pushed back in demurrer , the seed said . The man then fell to the soil , refusing to get up , and his mother then got involved by also press the security workers , according to the source .
Apple employees then decided to lock and shut the door to the store . A radical of people reply by shake and grabbing the door . The door then shattered , which injure an Apple employee , the informant said .
Apple said the requirement in China for its a la mode product , the iPad 2 , has been “ amazing . ” On Monday morning , Apple ’s Beijing Sanlitun computer storage report running out of the whitened version of the machine , but still had the black version in stock .
Apple has four memory in China : two in Beijing and two in Shanghai . Apple also uses authorized resellers and its on-line store to sell its products across China . But on Monday , Apple ’s online memory board for China appear to no longer offer order of its iPad 2 or the white iPhone 4 .
