Yang Weiguo, a 20-year-old university student in Beijing, is a committed Apple fan. Given the American company’s limited presence in China, that’s no small achievement. In April, for instance, Yang bought a new MacBook through MacX.cn, a fan site for Mac users in China that operates an online store unaffiliated with the company. The online store had someone buy a computer for Yang in Hong Kong and courier it up to Beijing, saving him $293, or roughly 17 percent,

on his MacBook purchase.

So when Yang, who is spending his summer as a volunteer for the Olympics next month, found out through the Mac community that Apple would open its first store in China on July 19, he knew he had to be there from the beginning. He arrived at the shop, located in a swank shopping mall in the Sanlitun area of Beijing, 22 hours before it was […]

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