December 19, 2007
PhoneMag analyse state of iPhone play in China
If you’ve been following the verbal sparring between Apple and China Mobile’s vocal CEO Wang Jianzhou, PhoneMag has an incredibly detailed analysis of the current battle for what could potentially be the iPhone’s biggest market.
“There is more than $115 million US Dollars at stake for Apple in China. [T]he competitors at the table are deadly serious. And they should be. They have turf to protect. Nokia, for one, sold more than 50 million mobile handsets in China during the first 3 quarters of 2007. Research in Motion (RIM) is another key player. RIM recently signed a deal with China Mobile to distribute their Blackberry 8700 smart-phone. RIM has bet big on the China market” Dan Butterfield, PhoneMag
