Apple’s failure to begin the sales of the iPhone 4S at its main store in Beijing's Sanlitun district – which is incidentally Apple’s flagship store in China – on Friday agitated the potential buyers to such an extent that they ended up pelting eggs on the store’s shiny glass walls.
The reaction of the crowd was a clear indication of their frustration at not having got a chance to buy the much-awaited iPhone 4S even after having lined up outside the store overnight in the freezing cold weather.
According to the information shared by unnamed sources, over 1,000 people had gathered outside the Apple store in the Sanlitun district of Beijing on Friday – the scheduled date of the commencement of the iPhone
4S in China.
With the crowd getting out of hand after Apple’s announcement that the release of the device had been delayed, the police became wary of unrest, and ordered the closure of the store and temporarily cordoned off the area around it.
Meanwhile, in a statement pertaining to the opening of the sales of the iPhone 4S in China, Apple spokeswoman Carolyn Wu said that at the five mainland China stores at which the sales of the iPhone 4S did commence on Friday, the company sold out of the handsets and later stalled the sales of all iPhones "for the time being."