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Hordes of Chinese Apple Fanboys Awaiting the iPhone 4S

By Jesus Diaz Published January 12, 2012, 8:12 pm ET

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Check out the thousands of anxious Chinese fanboys, awaiting overnight to descend on Beijing and Shanghai’s Apple Stores like locust over Egypt. They are there to devour every iPhone 4S in sight.

And you thought American fanboys were bad. [Mercury News via Fortune]

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