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Apple Trailing Target in China Stores May Be Android Opening
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Apple Inc. is opening stores in the China region at a quarter the pace it forecast 19 months ago, giving rival makers of smartphones and tablet computers time to gain users in the world’s biggest mobile-phone market.
Apple opened its third store in Shanghai today and will open its first one in Hong Kong tomorrow, bringing the total to six in a region with the company’s highest-grossing outlets. That compares with the 25 stores that Ron Johnson, then Apple’s head of retail, said last year it targeted by February 2012.