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The head of China's leading personal computer maker, Lenovo
Group (LNVGY, 0992.HK), said Apple Computer (AAPL) is missing a
huge opportunity in the Chinese market, the Financial Times
reported on its website Sunday.
"We are lucky that Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn't
care about China. If Apple were to spend the same effort on the
Chinese consumer as we do, we would be in trouble," Lenovo Chairman
Liu Chuanzhi said of Apple's chief executive.
Official channels for the sale of Apple products are extremely
limited, with only a handful of flagship stores and authorized
resellers in the country's largest cities.
The iPhone has been legally available only via China Unicom
(CHU, 0762.HK), the country's second-largest mobile operator. Apple
declined to comment on Liu's comments directly, but said it had
opened a new store in Shanghai on Saturday and was on track to have
25 retail outlets in the country by the end of next year.
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