{"id":61111,"date":"2025-09-13T06:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T06:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/61111\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T06:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T06:26:08","slug":"chinese-pre-orders-for-apples-iphone-17-break-records-amid-strong-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/61111\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese pre-orders for Apple\u2019s iPhone 17 break records amid strong demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Pre-order sales of Apple\u2019s new iPhone 17 series have got off to a robust start in China, shattering previous records despite delays in the shipment of the iPhone Air.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In the first minute after pre-orders began at 8pm Friday local time, sales on JD.com \u2013 one of China\u2019s largest online shopping platforms \u2013 surpassed the first-day pre-order volume of last year\u2019s iPhone 16 series, according to the e-commerce operator. The standard iPhone 17 with 256GB of storage emerged as the most popular variant, JD.com said.<\/p>\n<p>Those numbers excluded the iPhone Air, the company\u2019s thinnest model ever, as its <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3325322\/apple-postpones-iphone-air-release-china-beijing-keeps-tight-grip-esim-approval?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">release has been postponed<\/a> while Apple works with Chinese authorities to resolve regulatory issues over the use of an embedded SIM.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Amid overwhelming demand for the iPhone 17 series, customers reported difficulties accessing the pre-order page on Apple\u2019s website, according to a report on Friday from Chinese media outlet The Paper.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A billboard featuring JD.com\u2019s logo in Beijing. Photo; Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/08fdaf6f-6716-40ad-9196-8aa2cc97bc9c_1ee99a77.jpg\" title=\"A billboard featuring JD.com\u2019s logo in Beijing. Photo; Reuters\"\/>A billboard featuring JD.com\u2019s logo in Beijing. Photo; Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">One customer, who successfully secured a new handset for delivery on the September 19 launch date, said it took five minutes for the site to process payments. All time slots for picking up the iPhone 17 Pro Max in person at launch from Apple outlets in Shanghai were booked within 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">As of Saturday morning, anyone in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, looking to buy any variant of the iPhone 17 series faced a waiting period extending to October 15, Apple\u2019s website showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pre-order sales of Apple\u2019s new iPhone 17 series have got off to a robust start in China, shattering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[311,381,5214,18,13944,43554,5218,10975,19,431,20747,280,20676,17999,43555,43556,17,26609,43553,3109,2792,43552,12275,82,26292,43557,5316],"class_list":{"0":"post-61111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-chinese","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-guangdong-province","13":"tag-guangzhou","14":"tag-huawei","15":"tag-idc","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-iphone","18":"tag-iphone-17","19":"tag-iphone-17-pro","20":"tag-iphone-17-pro-max","21":"tag-iphone-air","22":"tag-iphone-pro-max","23":"tag-iphone-series","24":"tag-ireland","25":"tag-jd-com","26":"tag-pre-order","27":"tag-sales","28":"tag-shanghai","29":"tag-shipment","30":"tag-smartphone","31":"tag-technology","32":"tag-the-paper","33":"tag-trendforce","34":"tag-xiaomi"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}