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"On April 1, Nokia announced it's closing its flagship Nokia store in Shanghai, and this was no April Fools' joke. It\u2019s the latest in a series of shutdowns of the phone-maker\u2019s failing retail storefronts. The Shanghai store was its largest remaining shop.\nUnfortunately for Nokia, not many people really noticed or cared that the shop is closing. The Nokia Flagship Store SH account on Sina Weibo has had only 938 reposts of its \u201CGoodbye Shanghai\u201D post in the past three days. Trending Weibo posts generally get tens of thousands of interactions. However, the account only had 4,251 fans.\nThe Nokia Shanghai store opened in 2007, one of about 10 worldwide. At that time, Nokia was still China\u2019s top phone-maker with its Symbian platform. Then Android and iOS happened. While Symbian still has a surprisingly large user base in China, all the traction is behind Android. There will be an estimated 300 million active Android users in China by the end of this year. \nIn contrast, Nokia\u2019s stats for 2012 were disastrous in China, with sales down 79% throughout the year. Now Nokia is pinning its hopes on the Windows Phone OS, but it\u2019s growing slowly. Apple has three major stores in Shanghai and has rapidly expanded to eight Apple Stores in four cities across mainland China.\nNokia\u2019s flagship store on London\u2019s Regent\u2019s Street closed in 2009.\nImage via Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg via Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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