iPhone 5 Sells 2 Million Units During Debut China Weekend
Sales record set in one of Apple's most valuable markets.
Apple's iPhone 5 has sold over two million units during its launch weekend in China, subsequently setting a sales record for the country.
"Customer response to iPhone 5 in China has been incredible, setting a new record with the best first weekend sales ever in China," Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement. "China is a very important market for us and customers there cannot wait to get their hands on Apple products."
The iPhone 5 became available on Thursday in China, with pre-orders for the device ranging in the hundreds of thousands. Although the region's largest carrier, China Mobile, has yet to offer the device, both China Telecom and China Unicom are offering it to their subscribers.
China is an important market for Apple; it's the firm's second biggest market after the United States and accounts for around 15 percent ($23.8 billion) of the company's revenue for its fiscal year that ended in September.
Upon the iPhone 5's launch in the U.S. during September, it sold over 5 million units in its launch weekend, a million higher than its predecessor, the iPhone 4S. Preceding that was record pre-order figures, with over 2 million consumers reserving the smartphone.
Aside from China, the iPhone 5 will launch in more than 50 other countries by the end of the month. China received the WiFi versions of the iPad Mini and iPad 4 just over two weeks ago.

The Chinese branded phones are not rubbish either, I've bought at Huaweii out here as the hardware specs are impressive and the price was sub £100. The growing prosperity here is wasteful and very unpatriotic to home based brands.
Name any other Android flagship that even comes close to these sales figures?
Android has 90% marketshare in China because they are mostly the ~$100USD Android phone, not because of S3 and Note II.
Apple makes more money in China than any large Android Manufacturer that is not a Chinese company.
I'll take < 5% marketshare in a country that is 1.3 billion and generates billions in profit each year, versus 12-15% as Samsung and make a fraction of the profit as Apple in China since they're mostly selling $100 USD phones.
Reminds me of the US
So in theory US residents should only buy Apple otherwise they are being unpatriotic to their home based brand?
Is it ok if a Chinese person pays the same or about $50 less to buy a Samsung Note II or S3 or is that also unpatriotic and wasteful since Samsung is a foreign company and its as expensive as an iPhone?
First of all congrats to Apple for getting a successful market sale in the first month of china. i will appreciate china on becoming the second biggest market sale after U.S.
Congrats.
Their is no doubt that the iPhone will rock this world in next days that is going to release iPhone 5 in nxt 50 countries.
unlock iphone 4s