Photos from AppleStore Beijing

This really is an ignorant comment. There is an incredible growing middle class in China, currently estimated at about $100 million people, that is expected to increase to 700 million by 2020 (McKinsey), and these are consumers that can well afford Apple products today. In fact, you have car sales in China increasing in double digits over the last several years. (Some areas have seen 50% growth in auto ownership. In Beijing alone there are over 350,000 personal autos added a year.) There is also a booming real estate market and continued economic expansion that is in double digits year after year - millions upon millions of Chinese consumers are enjoying Apple and other foreign consumer products like never before.

Free Range? You just said there are 100 million dollar people in China. But that is a very valid point. China has a growing middle class that will be able to spend money on things like nice computers and so on. The Apple Store just confirms that. I'd say it's more an economic and environmental issue than one that should be discussed and debated on this blog, though.

omg i cant believe how the web is filled with stupids, so these umbs work? they feel so much safer now!