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No wonder Apple’s revenue sharing negotiations with China Mobile for the iPhone didn’t go as planned. China Mobile itself is claiming that something like 400,000 unlocked iPhones are already in use on its network. With the iPhone black market doing as well as it is in China, Apple would be hard pressed to guarantee iPhone exclusivity to China Mobile in return for iPhone revenue kickbacks. Which could be one explanation for Apple’s delay in launching the iPhone in China.
At 400,000 iPhones, unlocked iPhones exceed In Stat’s estimates by four-fold. And many China-bound iPhones are commanding premiums in the hundreds of dollars. Those Chinese sure do love them some iPhone.
If Apple is willing to ditch the revenue sharing model, the iPhone could do very well in China – more so than it already allegedly is.
[Via: Macworld]
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
