How iPhone is changing the Chinese 2nd Hand Mobile Market ・中国中古携帯市場を変えるiPhone

私の好きな香港家電街、ここは中古携帯専門店

These pho­tos are from Hong Kong last week as I vis­ited Sham Shui Po and Monkok. Until last year, the whole build­ing was filled with used cell phones of all makes and mod­els. You can find almost any phone they ever made int he past few years. Each shop had it’s strength and weak­ness, one may be a Nokia expert and one for Motorola or GSM vs CDMA etc. Peo­ple flocked here because you can find not only bat­ter­ies but rear cover for your Nokia N95 etc.. There is a BIG change hap­pen­ing here this year as some shops have con­verted, to shops spe­cial­iz­ing only in iPhone. Some renewed their shops to sell cases for iPhone only, not just one or two, I saw many iPhone case shops here. Such is the force of the iPhone. How­ever cases and periph­er­als found here were not in their high­est qual­ity. Cheap but not good qual­ity, uti­liz­ing the same mold and fake swaro ele­ments and cheap stick on glues.

Many sec­ond hand shops here will prob­a­bly become Google / Apple spe­cial­ists in order to sur­vive the slow­ing demand for GSM and tra­di­tional phone, and will most likely con­vert to being a smart­phone shop at the least.

先週香港旅行の時の写真：数カ月前まで中古電話機を売る店が多かった中古電話販売ビル。数店舗はiPhone用製品を販売するだけの店に変わっていった。このビル全体がiPhoneとAndroid本体と周辺機器だけを売るビルになる可能性もある。同じ現象が以前おこっている：PCゲーム売り場がPSP/PS3, DS/Wii and XBox売り場に。ケースの数だけでも目が回る。大半が同じ金型から作られた粗悪品。フィットもモールドラインも全ぶダメ。光物も直ぐ剥がれる。こんなとこで弊社製品が売られないこと祈る。

電車でも街でもiPhoneが増えた。中国は近いうちiPhoneの世界一マーケットになるだろう。