China: The fastest growing Apple region after USA

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It is Apple everywhere, specially after Steve Jobs. His death has made people so sensitive about Jobs life and his achievements that people now prefer Apple products as a respect to Apple's co-founder. It may therefore come as a surprise to many that China has become the second biggest market of Apple products in the world, after USA. Tim Cook, Apple CEO says, "If you count the greater China region as a whole (which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan) it now accounts for 12 percent of Apple’s full-year revenue for 2011. That’s up from just 2 percent in fiscal year 2009, he said. That makes it Apple’s “fastest-growing region by far.”

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