BEIJING: Enraged Chinese shoppers pelted Apple Inc’s flagship store here with eggs and shoving matches with police broke out when customers were told the store would not begin sales of the popular iPhone 4S as scheduled.
Apple said later on Friday after the botched launch at its store in Beijing’s trendy Sanlitun district that it would halt all retail sales of the latest iPhone in China for the time being, but said the phones would be available online, through its partner China Unicom or at official Apple resellers.
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