A man outside Shanghai’s Middle Huaihai Road store attracted the attention of 10 police officers when he threatened to smash\u00a0what he claimed was\u00a0a defective\u00a027-inch iMac that he had purchased<\/a><\/strong>, according to China Daily (which published the above photo):<\/p>\n
Shanghai’s Xuhui District Court will mediate between Zou and Best Buy on March 20.<\/p>\n
Apple’s third generation iPad also went on sale today in the U.S. and 9 other countries<\/a> around the world, including Hong Kong, where the San Francisco Chronicle reports that Apple utilized an online lottery system<\/a> to avoid the riot-like atmosphere that engulfed one of its Beijing stores<\/a> when the iPhone 4S launched in January. The Globe and Mail posted a video report from Hong Kong<\/a>, where it found no long queues outside Apple’s IFC store and paid a visit to a local reseller.\u00a0The South China Morning post also reported that a secondary market opened outside the story almost immediately<\/a><\/strong>, despite Apple’s best efforts to prevent scalping:<\/p>\n
Bloomberg reports that hopeful buyers in mainland China will have to wait to buy the new iPad, however, despite the irony that millions of the devices are already in China<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"