Big Chinese Online Store Sells Exactly... 5 iPhones

 By 
Stan Schroeder
 on 
Big Chinese Online Store Sells Exactly... 5 iPhones

The iPhone has been available in China through China Unicom for about one month now, but according to PC World, the sales results so far have been, well, abysmal.

Popular Chinese online retail store TaoBao sold exactly five iPhones in the first two weeks of sales: two 8GB iPhones and three 16GB iPhones. Since the Chinese version of the iPhone is maddeningly expensive -- from 4,999 yuan ($730) to 6,999 yuan ($1,025), depending on the model -- and currently lacks WiFi, no one really expected stellar sales numbers, but I don't think anyone thought we'd be able to count the number of iPhones sold on one hand.

Of course, this figure does not represent all iPhone sales in China; TaoBao is just one online shop. Still, it is China's top online retail site, so its numbers can give you a good idea of how popular the iPhone is in the country. Not very popular.

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