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Apple’s iPhone in China - Reality?

Published by
Steve
at June 29, 2008 in Apple and China. 3 Comments

 

There are media reports out that suggest that Apple’s iPhone is coming to China, soon!

Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs has said the company hoped to roll out the iPhone later this year in China.

I’m not so sure that I’d be interested in one, but I kinda like that I will at least have the option to get one!

Macintosh users are more likely to buy (rather than steal) digital music

Published by
Steve
at March 3, 2008 in Apple and thoughts. 0 Comments

New research from the NPD Group finds that 50 percent of Mac users pay to download music, compared to just 16 percent of PC users.

New market research figures from the NPD Group may highlight some of the gap between users of Apple’s Macintosh computers and…well, users of those other systems. According to the NPD Group’s Digital Music Monitor, Macintosh users are considerably more likely to pay to download music, with 50 percent of all Mac users surveyed paying to download music during the third quarter of 2007 compared to just 16 percent of PC users.

hmmm!

the article

Apple iPhones in China? Looks Like It’s Going To Happen!

Published by
Steve
at November 13, 2007 in Apple, China and news. 1 Comment

iPhoneChina Mobile is in talks with Apple to sell the iPhone in China, the company’s CEO said on Tuesday. But he’s not keen on the type of revenue-sharing model that Apple has insisted on elsewhere in the world.”Our customers like this kind of fashionable product,” Wang Jianzhou, China Mobile’s CEO, on the sidelines of the GSM Association’s Mobile Asia Congress in Macau.But in a speech at the conference, Wang said he doesn’t like some of the new business models emerging in the mobile phone industry, including handset makers wanting to share revenue with mobile operators. ”We still think we can maintain the operator-centric model because we have the customers, the end users,” Wang said.Apple has been signing exclusive deals with operators to sell its iPhone, including O2 in the U.K. and AT&T in the U.S. As part of the deal, Apple requires the operators to pay it a portion of their iPhone subscriber revenue.Apple has said it will roll out iPhones in Asia next year, and China Mobile would be a good catch for the company. It is the world’s largest mobile operator, boasting almost 350 million subscribers at the end of September.

If they can actually work out a reasonable deal with China Mobile or another carrier, this is going to be very tempting! Up to this point, the iPhone was out of the realm of reality for me, so it was not a problem. Now I’m gonna have to convince myself how I DON’T actually want one of these!