iphone5大陸推出3天銷售破200萬

APPLE says 2 million iPhone 5 were sold on the Chinese mainland in the first three days since sales began last Friday.

蘋果公司表示200臺iPhone 5自上週五開始前三天在中國大陸銷售一空。

Industry insiders said the figure reflected the popularity of iPhone 5 in China, the world's biggest mobile phone market, and Apple's improved distribution and supply in its second biggest market after the United States.

業內人士說這個數字反映了在中國這個世界上最大的手機市場iPhone 5的流行，蘋果在其僅次於美國的第二大市場改進了分發和供應鏈。

"customer response to iPhone 5 in China has been incredible," Apple's Chief Executive Tim Cook said in a statement yesterday. "China is a very important market for us and customers there cannot wait to get their hands on Apple products."

“在中國消費者對iPhone 5的反應一直令人難以置信，”蘋果的首席執行官蒂姆•庫克昨日在一份聲明中表示。“中國對我們來說是一個非常重要的市場，那裏的顧客迫不及待地想要得到蘋果產品。”

Figures for initial sales of previous iPhone models in China were not available.

先前iPhone模型在中國的銷售原始數據並不可用。

In September, when the iPhone 5 made its debut in nine countries and regions, including the United States and Hong Kong, more than 5 million phones were sold in the first three days.

今年9月，當iPhone 5在9個國家和地區首次亮相，包括美國和香港，在前三天擁有超過500萬的手機銷量。

Apple's partners on the mainland, China Unicom and China Telecom, launched sales at midnight last Thursday, earlier than the Apple Stores which opened at 7am on Friday.

蘋果在中國內地的合作伙伴，中國聯通和中國電信，在上週四午夜開始銷售，早於週五早上7點蘋果零售店開售。

"Everyone who comes to our store is able to get an iPhone 5 because we have stocks for two or three days," Zhu Yan, China Telecom's Shanghai-based marketing official, said.

“凡到我們商店的每個人能夠得到一臺iPhone 5，因爲我們有兩三天的儲備，”朱燕，中國電信上海市場官員說。

Previously, people had to queue for several hours at Apple Stores to buy products such as the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 when they were launched.

以前當他們推出時人們不得不在蘋果商店排幾個小時購買如iPhone 4和iPad 2那樣的產品。

"It's really easy this time because you can buy it everywhere," said Xu Min, a software engineer who bought a white 16GB phone from Bailian's online store.

“這次真的很容易因爲你到處都可以買到，”徐敏說，一位軟件工程師，他從百聯的在線商店買了一臺白色的16 GB手機。