Reasons why the iPhone 4 sales of the Hong Kong bank are suspended

In October 22, the Hong Kong official Apple online store suddenly stopped accepting orders for the iPhone 3gs and iPhone 4. Apple did not give any advance notice or reason for this, but only the sales information of all iPhones in the Hong Kong Apple official online store was displayed as "currently unavailable (currently unavailable )". Due to the sudden suspension of official sales, the price of the iPhone in the Chinese commodity market is expected to rise. The price of the iPhone 4 with the original price of 4999 yuan is nearly 7000 yuan. The following figure shows the recent iPhone price trends collected by the app tigers:

According to the analysis by the app tigers, one of the biggest reasons for Apple's iPhone sales in Hong Kong to stop is to prevent some unscrupulous hackers from using it.Hong Kong Mobile iPhone 4A relatively low price, a large number of arbitrage, to maintain the stability of the local market. However, unfortunately, according to the current market performance, Apple's practice in Hong Kong seems to have played the opposite role, and it has not stabilized the market. Instead, it has caused the price of iPhone 4 in various regions to rise, JS Arbitrage is more crazy and the market is more unstable.

As we know, the Hong Kong version of the licensed iPhone 4 is priced at only 4988 Hong Kong dollars (about 643 US dollars and 4350 RMB), and the Hong Kong version of the iPhone 4 has no network lock, that is, anywhere, any mobile operator's Network (unless you are using China Telecom or Verizon's CDMA network), we only need to plug in the SIM card for use, without the need for additional jailbreak and unlock. Therefore, this price is attractive all over the world.

To make a profit from selling the iPhone 4 in Hong Kong to other regions, JS customers first order the iPhone 4 through the apple online store in Hong Kong, after receiving the phone number, they sold it to a second-hand mobile phone market like Shenzhen and Shenzhen at a high price. In mainland China, these people are called scalpers ". They order iPhone 4 in large quantities online each day and sell it to the second-hand mobile phone market in exchange for the price difference. Due to their crazy activity, the average user needs to order the iPhone and usually needs to wait for nearly a month to get the phone.
The second-hand mobile phone market, after receiving mobile phones, then sells them to the local tyrants in mainland China and Southeast Asia. Although Apple also sells iPhone phones in mainland China, it cannot block the popularity of these JS businesses. The specific reasons may be:
• Insufficient iPhone 4 capacity, coupled with scalping. Many users cannot buy a Chinese-published iPhone;
• The local iPhone caws some features for some well-known reasons;
• People prefer China Mobile rather than unreliable China Unicom;
• Local bare metal machines can only be purchased at Apple stores in Shanghai and Beijing, and are out of stock as always. The iPhone 4 of the Hong Kong version can be bought almost wherever there is scalper.

Apple wants to stop selling iPhone 4 online to prevent JS arbitrage. Now people need to buy the iPhone 4. They must sign a network agreement with Apple's authorized carrier smartone, CSL, and Company 3-to stop the iPhone 4 arbitrage at a high price. However, the app tigers are still unable to figure out why Apple's order for connecting to the iPhone 3gs 8 GB has been stopped. Is there any other reason? APP tiger genie guess:
• The iPhone 4 is out of stock. -However, Apple's orders in other countries are still normal, and Hong Kong's replacement factory Foxconn, which is very close to iPhone 4, should not be out of stock.
• There are too many orders every day. Apple's employees are not able to handle them. They are very depressed and decided to temporarily stop online ordering. But this is really bad.
• The white version of the iPhone 4 is about to go public-Apple can ensure that orders made before October 22 will be delivered by the end of December, and Apple will need to make full efforts to maintain the white version production and marketing work, so they stopped receiving new orders.
• IPhone 5 is coming-it seems a little early.