A man in China has bought 99 iPhone 6’s in an elaborate display of affection, where the iPhone boxes formed a heart shape around the man. The phones totalled 500,000 yuan which converts to more than $80,000 dollars. The report says that this represents two year’s worth of his savings.
Unfortunately, the spectacle may not have had the desired effect. The girl is yet to answer. This kind of event is rather common in China around ‘Singles Day’, where individuals pull off such lavish stunts, although buying 99 iPhones seems to be a more extreme case. Alibaba expects to rake in 7 billion dollars in sales from the occasion.
After 60+ years of official 1 child policy, China is short women due to the practice of killing girls at birth, so as to try again (for a boy child), The tables have now turned against a male oriented culture.
What goes around comes around.