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China's regulator, equivalent to the telecommunications authority, has finally given Apple permission to sell its two latest phones, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, on the country's soil. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology granted the relevant license needed to start sales after testing both phones with its own diagnostic tools for potential security risks.

If not for this delay, Apple would likely have sold both phones during the first wave on September 19, which could have boosted first-weekend sales by an estimated two million. This also created a gray market with a very short lifespan, when the Chinese transported iPhones bought in the US to their homeland to sell them here at a multiple of the original price. Due to exports from Hong Kong and other factors, many dealers actually lost money.

The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus go on sale in China on October 17 (pre-orders start as early as October 10) from all three local carriers including China Mobile, the world's largest carrier, in local Apple Stores, online at Apple's website and at electronics retailers there. Apple expects strong sales in China, not only because of the popularity of the iPhone in general, but also because of the larger screen sizes, which are much more popular on the Asian continent than in Europe or North America. Tim Cook said that "Apple can't wait to offer iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus to customers in China on all three carriers."

On the Czech version of Apple's website, there was also a message regarding iPhones that we could expect them in our country soon, so it is not excluded that the deadline of October 17 will also apply to the Czech Republic and several dozen other countries in the world in the third wave of sales.

Source: The Verge, Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),
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