Well, despite the rain here in Beijing, these people have been lining up, some for a few hours, others for a few days. Now that Apple's iPad is officially on sale here in China.
I've been waiting for 60 hours. I love Apple and I'm a huge, huge fan.
And if you think everything is cheaper in China. Well, think again! Apple is charging an equivalent of about $600 for the 16 gigabyte version, around $800 for the biggest 64 gigabyte model. That's about 20% more than what you might pay for the same product in the store in New York. Now that's mostly because of Chinese government taxes. Although there is a host of cheap notebooks you can buy in this country, analysts say the Apple brand brings with it such status here that this country's growing middle class
