Apple of discord between old and young
Long queues are not a feature of Shanghai's Expo Garden alone. Just a few days ago one was seen in Pudong's Lujiazui financial area. Thousands of people, most of them young, waited in a hundreds of meters long queue in front of a new Apple store, the first in Shanghai.
The Apple store was to open on July 10. But the people had gathered there several days before. An excited fan, who held the No 1 card in the queue, said he had come all the way from Jilin province in Northeast China. He had reached Shanghai on July 6 and had been sleeping in a tent and would finally realize his dream of buying Apple.
He is not the only one to suffer from "Apple fever". Photographs show more than 100 young people waiting in the queue overnight, killing time on their Apple laptops or iPads, which are not yet available in the local market.
