Update | Mainlanders miffed that they will have to keep waiting for iPhone 6
About 600,000 of the new devices estimated to have been delivered from plants in Henan to Chicago
Mainlanders were disappointed that they were absent from the second wave of Apple's iPhone 6 deliveries as 93 tonnes of the new iPhones were sent in the past week from manufacturing plants in Henan to Chicago, mainland media reported late yesterday.
The first China Southern Airlines flight carrying pallets weighing 14.5 tonnes left on September 6, and the second weighing 78.5 tonnes departed on Wednesday, Henan Business Daily reported, citing an unnamed customs official at Zhengzhou airport.
“We can’t even buy an iPhone here when the American people are using it,” one weibo user wrote.
“What a huge joke that iPhone 6 is made in China while Chinese people have to pay much more for a smuggled iPhone” if they want to use it as soon as possible, another weibo user said.