Apple Opens Second Store in China

Several hundred people lined up outside a 40-foot cylindrical glass wall that contains the Apple logo at the 1,500-square-meter store in the Pudong district of Shanghai, China?s financial hub, before it opened at 10 a.m. local time.

Apple is expanding its network to reach more customers in China, where its sales trail Nokia and Lenovo, and said this week it plans ?many? more Apple stores for China. The company?s first China store opened in Beijing in July 2008.

Unlicensed distributors sold more than 2 million iPhones on a so-called gray market, according to Sandy Shen, an analyst at Gartner Inc. in Shanghai. China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd., the only authorized Chinese carrier offering the smartphone, sold fewer than 1 million, she said.

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