White iPhone 4 source of scuffle in China

Just how far are you willing to go to make sure you can pocket a white iPhone 4? While some of us don’t mind camping out or taking our chances at a really, really long queue, there are other people who think that might makes right – take for example, a bunch of folks at Beijing over the weekend who wanted to get in line to bring home the handset. They literally fought for the smartphone, clashing with Apple Store employees halfway that saw fistcuffs and broken glass (as you can see above), resulting in the store closing down for several hours.

Take that and multiply it with all the other people waiting in line, and you have a whole lot of man hours wasted, don’t you think so? According to Apple spokeswoman Carolyn Wu, the group “became unruly” and employees “acted to protect themselves and our customers by closing the doors and preventing the group from entering.”

Just to get an idea on how bitter competition for a white iPhone 4 is, those who want to bring one of them home from an Apple store will need to make an online reservation, although if you are willing to go black, those are still available to walk-in customers. Bear in mind that this isn’t the first time that a fistfight had happened in Beijing just because of an iPhone, but it certainly was the most dramatic to date.

Edwin Kee
Categories: Apple, Cellphones
Tags: Apple Inc, apple store, iPhone 4