Let me get this straight...



January 13, 2012 9:09 am
nationalpost:

Shoppers riot at Beijing Apple store over delayed iPhonesEnraged Chinese shoppers pelted Apple Inc.’s flagship Beijing store with eggs and shoving matches broke out with police on Friday when customers were told the store would not begin sales of the iPhone4S as scheduled.Apple said later after the fracas at its store in Beijing’s trendy Sanlitun district that it would halt all retail sales of the latest iPhone in China for the time being, but said the phones would be available online, through its partner China Unicom or at official Apple resellers.An announcer with a bullhorn told the Sanlitun store crowd around 7 a.m., before sunrise, that the phones would not go on sale as planned and that they should leave. As the crowd became more unruly, scuffles broke out between security staff and shoppers, many of whom had waited overnight in freezing weather. Police moved in and dragged some people away. Photos appeared on the Chinese blogosphere of a man who had brought raw eggs in a plastic bag, handing them out before people heaved them at the store’s tall glass windows.“We’re suffering from cold and hunger,” a man in his 20s shouted to Reuters Television. “They said they’re not going to sell to us. Why? Why?” (Photo: Feng Li/Getty Images)

Seriously?
They’re rioting over the delayed release of a phone that is manufactured in their country by people who are working in such poor conditions that they’ve threatened a mass suicide?

nationalpost:

Shoppers riot at Beijing Apple store over delayed iPhones
Enraged Chinese shoppers pelted Apple Inc.’s flagship Beijing store with eggs and shoving matches broke out with police on Friday when customers were told the store would not begin sales of the iPhone4S as scheduled.

Apple said later after the fracas at its store in Beijing’s trendy Sanlitun district that it would halt all retail sales of the latest iPhone in China for the time being, but said the phones would be available online, through its partner China Unicom or at official Apple resellers.

An announcer with a bullhorn told the Sanlitun store crowd around 7 a.m., before sunrise, that the phones would not go on sale as planned and that they should leave. As the crowd became more unruly, scuffles broke out between security staff and shoppers, many of whom had waited overnight in freezing weather. Police moved in and dragged some people away. Photos appeared on the Chinese blogosphere of a man who had brought raw eggs in a plastic bag, handing them out before people heaved them at the store’s tall glass windows.

“We’re suffering from cold and hunger,” a man in his 20s shouted to Reuters Television. “They said they’re not going to sell to us. Why? Why?” (Photo: Feng Li/Getty Images)

Seriously?

They’re rioting over the delayed release of a phone that is manufactured in their country by people who are working in such poor conditions that they’ve threatened a mass suicide?

  1. icanfeelyourwhisper reblogged this from nationalpost and added:
    Why, China, why?
  2. inthenewsindia reblogged this from nationalpost
  3. mymacaddiction reblogged this from and added:
    Ppl lining up in China for the release of the iPhone 4.
  4. samlivesinchina reblogged this from sade and added:
    First of all, if you are hungry while waiting here, you are just plain dumb because you could send your friend up to...
  5. eunnnice reblogged this from nationalpost and added:
    recent news, isn’t it. The rabid consumerism put aside with questionable labor practices is sad
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  10. dreammerchant reblogged this from nationalpost and added:
    Crying because you can’t give your money away, son?
  11. mindbabies reblogged this from nationalpost and added:
    Seriously? They’re rioting...their country by...such poor...
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  15. gobshitemusings reblogged this from sade and added:
    The Chinese love their iPhones more than North Koreans love Kim Jong-Il. I smell another communist conspiracy.
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  18. franklinjackson reblogged this from nationalpost and added:
    the last…c’mon now!
  19. jacquesofalltrades reblogged this from nationalpost and added:
    My question is, had...shoppers arrived at...case they...
  20. leah905 reblogged this from nationalpost and added:
    The last quote made me lol. Are
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  24. ichbineinbelieber reblogged this from nationalpost and added:
    the man, as he waited...purchase his new iPhone while millions of his countrymen...
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