Apple weathers anti-US demo in China, where patriotic protests snowball

Miffed with Apple: Social media users encouraged each other to destroy their Apple goods.

HONG KONG: Apple Inc found itself on the receiving end of a small, short-lived anti-US protest this week in China, the tech firm's biggest overseas market and a country where foreign firms have suffered damaging boycotts following international spats.

A handful of unofficial Apple stores were picketed and social media users encouraged each other to destroy their Apple goods, in a rare instance of the tech firm being targeted as a symbol of perceived injustice following an international ruling against Chinese territorial claims.