From CNET: Apple's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus scooped up 4 million reservations in China by Friday, according to Chinese media estimates cited by Fortune.
A single e-commerce site called Jingdong is responsible for 2.3 million reservations, Fortune reported, citing Chinese website Tencent.
The new iPhones went on sale in the US and other countries on September 19. But China wasn't on the launch list due to the absence of regulatory approval. The country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology had to approve the new iPhones for network access before retailers could start selling them. The approval came through earlier this week, as confirmed by Apple on Tuesday.
Since then, reservations for the iPhone 6 have taken off among Chinese consumers. A report published Thursday by Chinese website Sina pointed to "incomplete statistics" indicating that Chinese carriers and retail outlets saw 2 million reservations for the new handsets in the first six hours. Some published estimates cited by Fortune said that 1 million of those reservations were from China's three major mobile carriers, while the other million were from retailers.
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