iPhone 17 mania sweeps China—official site down, Huawei left in the dust!

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"Today, just like every September, this “iPhone” is about to release a new model again. This is the “iPhone 17.” At the launch event, an overwhelming number of people are lining up. It seems that earlier everyone kept saying they wouldn’t use iPhones, but when it actually launched, huge crowds still rushed to line up and buy. What does this show?
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The system crashed.
Have you guys heard?
Watch the video.
It's really beyond imagination.
Let me show you how many people are lining up at the Apple Store.
Let's go.
Over here, the staff already announced that the queue numbers have reached the limit
and no more people are allowed to line up.
But there are still people queuing on this side.
Now, through my camera moving forward, you can see it's packed with people.
Keep going. Keep going.
People are still lining up here.
We're not even at the entrance yet.
Still need to move forward.
Keep going. Keep going.
It's the same on this side.
Look at this crowd.
My God, it's overwhelming.
Still not the end.
We can keep moving because we haven't reached the entrance yet.
More and more still pushing forward.
My God, there are just too many people.
It feels like the whole of Shenzhen came to line up.
Are they here to buy iPhones?
Today, just like every September, this iPhone is about to release a new model again.
This is the iPhone 17.
At the launch event, an overwhelming number of people are lining up.
It seems that earlier, everyone kept saying they wouldn't use iPhones.
But when it actually launched, huge crowds still rushed to line up and buy.
What is this show?
It's crazy. Absolutely crazy.
This year, the iPhone 17 Pro Max is far harder to get than last year's iPhone 16 Pro Max.
You guys were saying ugly things about it, saying you wouldn't buy.
But in the end, it's all just talk.
You bought them all.
The 17 Pro Max is gone.
The 17 is gone.
The 17 Pro is gone.
Even the official stock is gone.
I couldn't get a single one.
Now I have to wait until next month for new stock.
Everyone who mocked the iPhone 17 just got slapped in the face.
Data from JD shows that in just one minute,
iPhone 17 sales surpassed an entire day's worth from last year.
And pre-orders on tomorrow were three times higher than the previous generation.
Honestly, these past few days, I was planning to curse Apple a bit.
But when this data came out, even I was stunned.
How can I still complain?
Wouldn't that just be slapping myself?
Clearly, Huawei's new generation, foldable,
was released a week earlier than the iPhone 17.
Yet this year, Huawei's second generation foldable didn't stir up much buzz,
while the iPhone 17, despite waves of criticism, exploded in sales.
As soon as the iPhone 17 launched,
countless hidden tycoons suddenly revealed themselves.
My entire WeChat moments is filled with people flaunting their pre-orders
and posting screenshots.
From morning until now, it's been like this.
And all of them are the one terabyte versions.
At 8 p.m. on September 12th,
the iPhone 17 series officially opened for pre-order in the Chinese market.
And Apple's official website was flooded with so many users that it crashed.
The three models launched initially all sold out.
That night, the hashtag couldn't buy iPhone 17
shot straight to the top of Weibo's hot search.
According to Yi Kai, at exactly 8 p.m., when pre-orders opened,
Apple's site was already showing inaccessible.
On JD, within just one minute of sales opening,
all models were marked sold out.
On Tmall, both iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro Max sold out within two minutes.
After 20 minutes, Apple's website displayed delivery times
for the iPhone 17 Pro series pushed back to October 14th to 21st,
meaning consumers would have to wait three to four weeks
to get their hands on the device.
In recent years, U.S.-China relations have been tense,
with trade wars breaking out.
Under the guidance of official propaganda,
Chinese social media has been full of anti-American rhetoric,
including calls to use domestic phones and boycott iPhones.
Yet every time Apple releases a new model, it sells out.
Chinese consumers are voting with their feet,
completely ignoring the government's anti-American propaganda.
Looking at the overall picture, most iPhone buyers are young people,
and the scene is as crowded as a festival.
We went over to check Huawei's store to see if it was just as packed.
When we got there, there were only a few scattered people, not many.
We waited a bit and went inside, still not crowded.
Shouldn't everyone be supporting Huawei?
Isn't that right?
Buying Huawei is also patriotic, but if I buy Apple, that's patriotic too,
because I still pay taxes to my country.
This Apple store is also legal,
I'm live streaming right now.
If you want to ask who allowed Apple in, go ask them.
But when you see me, all you do is stand at the counter cursing people who buy
Apple, without daring to touch the ones who actually let Apple in.
Apple was allowed into China, do you understand?
Besides, Apple pays taxes here and provides jobs for us.
To put it simply, the money we earn doesn't fall from the sky.
It's the result of the hard work of us Han people, right?
I earn my money through my own effort, so
am I not allowed to buy a product I like?
Why must I be forced to buy something else to be considered right?
The reasoning is that simple, yet some people still don't get it.
Whether it's Huawei, Xiaomi, or Apple, they are all private companies.
When you get sick and go register at a hospital,
if you ask them for money, they won't give it to you.
In the end, you still rely on your own two hands to make money and
pay for your own medical treatment.
When you face difficulties, no one really helps you.
In the end, you have to help yourself.
So what's wrong with choosing to buy what I like?
This Huawei phone really makes me angry.
I can't hold back today.
Look at this device.
It doesn't even have a video account on WeChat.
It drives me crazy.
And its WeChat version is still stuck at 1.07,
while other phones have already updated to 1.8.
What kind of phone is this?
Some so-called latest Huawei Harmony OS?
I didn't want to criticize, but today I really lost my patience,
because I couldn't find my video account.
Look, if you can't even log into a video account,
what kind of phone is this?
Seriously, avoid it. Don't buy it.
If it's 8,000 yuan, would you choose Huawei or Apple?
Definitely Apple.
Why?
Because Huawei is too complicated, too advanced,
with too many functions I don't even use,
and mainly because I don't have money.
I'm too poor.
If I buy an iPhone, I don't need to change my phone for 8 years.
What do you think about the iPhone 17 that just launched yesterday?
The smartphone world has reached its endgame.
Those Android phones priced at 15,000 yuan
might as well not even try to sell.
Huawei might as well give up too.
This time, the standard iPhone 17 already comes with a 120Hz display,
fast charging,
a battery lasting 8 hours longer than the previous generation,
and base storage of 256GB.
Yet the price hasn't changed.
Tell me, isn't that worth it?
With Android phones getting more and more expensive,
what can people even do?
Isn't Huawei's advertising already overwhelming by now?
Look, when I search for iPhone, I see Huawei 8.2 ads.
I search for Apple phones, Huawei pops up again.
I search for Samsung, and it's still Huawei.
In the end, only Xiaomi hasn't been shoved aside.
Honestly, the only brand that can actually compete is Xiaomi.
No wonder the prices are so high.
If they sold cheaper, they probably couldn't even pay their ad fees.
Huawei has ties to the Chinese Communist Party military,
accused of espionage activities,
illegal data collection,
and sanctioned by the US government.
Yet at home, Huawei is hyped up by the CCP regime,
touting itself as far ahead in technology.
Huawei also exploits people's patriotic feelings to market its products.
However, the quality of Huawei phones is troubling.
More and more users are reporting online that their Huawei phones exploded,
leaked liquid on their own, or had numerous defects.
And yet Huawei tries every way to shirk responsibility,
responding negatively to user complaints.
As a result, more and more Chinese people have begun boycotting Huawei products.
Many customers went to stores for help, but got nowhere,
forcing them to go online to expose the truth
and warn others not to be fooled by the so-called patriotic veil
Huawei uses to sell phones.
Brothers, let me be honest.
Absolutely do not buy Huawei phones now,
especially ones with HarmonyOS 5.
The bugs are countless, basically unusable.
For example, when I open WeChat, it crashes immediately.
When I open it again, the phone restarts, then crashes again.
Same thing with the news app. Open, and it crashes.
There are so many bugs it's impossible to use.
And yet they dare to claim far ahead?
Ahead in what, exactly?
At Shenzhen malls, Apple stores are packed with people in long queues.
You can describe it in five words.
Crowded, jam-packed.
A sea of people.
Packed like sardines, stretching endlessly.
What I want to say, from the bottom of my heart,
is that ordinary people are still the majority.
Those who scream all day long,
shouting that using iPhones makes you a traitor,
and that only using some other brand is patriotic.
Those are the people who are truly hateful.
In real life, many people don't have time to bicker online.
They use real actions to slap those people in the face.
Normal-minded people already find it disgusting.
They don't need to go online just to get labeled.
Say a few words and you're branded a traitor, a spy,
1450, or a rebel.
It's really unnecessary.
If you seriously argue with them for 10 days straight,
then you're the one not serious anymore.
Just let them keep screaming and cursing.
The times will eliminate them on their own.
Don't sit there cursing emptily.
The more you curse, the longer the lines get.
Isn't that exactly what's happening?
