Chinese Apple superfans jostled to enter the smartphone maker's newest store in Shanghai as it opened on Thursday night -- but they were upstaged by dozens of retirees eager to nab commemorative freebies.
Apple CEO Tim Cook attended the opening of his company's newest store in Shanghai, amid growing worries over the iPhone maker's market share in China. Photo: STR, STR / AFPsuperfans jostled to enter the smartphone maker's newest store in Shanghai as it opened on Thursday night -- but they were upstaged by dozens of retirees eager to nab commemorative freebies.
Hundreds gathered outside Apple's eighth store in Shanghai hours before its grand opening on Thursday, including younger fans brandishing smartwatches,The vast majority arrived to find that they were too late to enter a cordoned-off queue that guaranteed first access to the store -- that area was already filled with a sprinkling of die-hard fans and lines of older men and women armed with folding chairs and parasols.
But the sheer size of the Chinese market means Apple-obsessed consumers are still a powerful demographic.
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