纽约的午夜时分（北京时间周四凌晨一点），中国移动（China Mobile）北京店的手机预定网站更新了页面上的图片，iPhone 5S醒目地出现在了湖面中。它等于明确地向世人宣告：全球最大无线运营商、拥有7.5亿订阅用户的中国移动将启动移动版iPhone 5S的销售。

    网站上的宣传语这样写道：“有种期待，值得等待”。

    苹果内幕（AppleInsider）一位叫杰弗瑞的网友法布第一张网页截屏时，预定人数显示为3004。仅仅过了6个小时，截止美国东部时间早六点（北京时间周四晚七点），预定人数已近达到17525。而且，这个预定量还以每两秒钟一部的速率不断增长。不过，至于这个数字到底代表着实际的预定量、还是页面浏览量，目前还不得而知。

    这个惊人的数字是否意味着对于移动版苹果手机长久以来的期待目前已经达到了顶点？不尽然也。不过，它或许是一个证据，表明确实存在被压抑的市场需求。（财富中文网）

    译者：王晓彤  

    Some time before midnight in New York (1 p.m. Beijing), China Mobile's (CHL) Beijing reservation website switched to attached image, strongly suggesting that the world's largest mobile carrier -- with more than 750 million subscribers -- was getting ready to offer Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 5S for sale.

    "Something worth waiting for," reads the banner, according to the Wall Street Journal's translation.

    When an AppleInsider reader named Jeffery snapped the first screenshot, the visitor counter displayed the number 3,004. By 6 a.m. Eastern (7 p.m. in Beijing) -- six hours later -- the counter hit 17,525 and was increasing at the rate of one every two seconds. Whether those numbers represent reservations or just page views is not clear.

    Proof that the long-awaited Apple-China Mobile deal has been consummated? Not quite. But evidence, perhaps, of pent-up demand.