After returning to Moscow, Wang Ye handed out the iPhones he had brought back to everyone he knew.
That included people at the Kremlin, several speakers and deputy speakers of the Duma, all the members of the two committees he chaired, Medvedev, Shoigu, Korokoli, and others.
Naturally, Rosiana and the assistants and secretaries in his office received them as well.
Everyone was quite interested in this new gadget, especially since it made getting online so convenient. As long as there was mobile data, they could access the internet anytime, anywhere.
Although mobile data was extremely expensive at the time and basically unaffordable for ordinary users, that little bit of money meant nothing to people like Wang Ye.
Previously, anyone who wanted to get online had to use a desktop or laptop computer, which was far too inconvenient.
But now, a tiny phone let them surf the internet whenever they wanted. It was vastly more convenient.
Since he had brought back quite a few phones, after distributing them among the people around him, Wang Ye still had some left. He gave those to the senior executives of his major companies.
The total number was not particularly large, but the identities of the people using those phones spoke for themselves.
Before long, people began seeing quite a few important figures using this unusual new phone on television news, in newspapers and magazines, and at all kinds of major events.
If important people were using it, then it had to be good!
In the past, influential people in Moscow had all used Vertu phones, because they were symbols of status and standing. All the upper-echelon figures used them.
But now, Apple's new phones had replaced Vertu and become the latest trend.
Those wealthy people naturally could not get the gifts Wang Ye had