He added later that the Beijing Apple store now outsold the Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan.

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When the iPad 2 was released last year, a skirmish broke out outside a Beijing Apple Store after a man believed to be a scalper was escorted away by security after trying to cut in line.

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Apple opened its first Apple Store in Beijing only in 2008.

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