arstechnica.com — Apple's on again-off again negotiations with China's largest mobile carrier, China Mobile, have supposedly come to a standstill yet again. According to Interfax China, China Mobile CEO Wang Jianzhou is none too thrilled with the idea of Apple selling apps directly to China Mobile customers.
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kevincw01Feb 11, 2009
ya just wait until little Lee Chu decides to take the schematics to the warehouse next door where his brother works.....can you say "ePhone" or "iFone"?
oriondrFeb 11, 2009
China's government has a monopoly on brutally controlling its software.
mrbitchFeb 11, 2009
I think your comment was buried with your idiotic comment RE: " the fakes often have more and better features anyways..."If you have ever actually USED a fake iPhone, you would understand that the fakes are WORSE and have shockingly bad build quality.You get what you pay for...
deancJul 4, 2009
Now that China Mobile has opened up their app store to 500m users are any of you going to be submitting your apps for international consumption?<a class="user" href="http://www.mmarket.com/">http://www.mmarket.com/</a>Interesting to see they are offering applications for multiple Mobile OS's and with the China Mobile O phone coming out in 2 months i expect that a lof of the apps will be heavily weighted towards Android (O phone is a HTC android with custom os).China Mobile are keeping 50% of all app sales as commission but with 500,000,000 end customers....they get to call the shots (big enough that they still haven't given into Steve Jobs at Apple - people think China Mobile is crazy that they still haven't come to terms on the rev model splits with Apple so have kept the iphone out of China, lol crazy like a fox i think, with the Ophone now just months away China Mobile doesn't care if one of the smaller carriers pick it up now).Cheers,DeanConsidering i still own the domains <a class="user" href="http://www.MobileAppStore.com">http://www.MobileAppStore.com</a> + .net + .org + .mobi it's an interesting space to keep watching.
deancDec 28, 2009
btw decided to sell the domains to raise money for another project; The domain <a class="user" href="http://www.MobileAppStore.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.MobileAppStore.com</a> is now for sale if you have some deep pockets.What do you think about the current bid?