Comments on: Is The iPhone Coming To China?

By: IraqiGuy

IraqiGuy — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:28:07 +0000

Why is China Mobile still hesitating to sign the contract?I really want an iPhone 3G but it costs roughly $700 USD here and that’s just the 8GB….complete ripoff.

By: Americanguy

Americanguy — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:16:01 +0000

FYI Chinese guy. Steve Jobs has terminal cancer and a net worth of more than 4 billion USD. I doubt he is concerned about selling you a phone.

Why not develop your own technology and use it?

By: cimmuk

cimmuk — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:40:37 +0000

As one of consumers from China, I know that there are tremendous people keen to buy apple’s products, not only Iphone, but also macbook, ipod. They don’t care price becase all is crazy about it.

By: manish mahera

manish mahera — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:44:38 +0000

no other phone is as comfortable than this one bcoz easy to handle slim and fit and also a good satisifation keep it up china

By: limo party bus

limo party bus — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:57:50 +0000

wow its like asking if china going us way in the global marketing arena .. i wonder if they would do that and so it would ever happen, but who knows !!!

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By: Lionel Palar

Lionel Palar — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:20:32 +0000

Yo one thing I bet you guys dont know and is probably irelevant to most americans in this forum is that 2.2 finally enables CHINA MAN like me to use the gps function in maps . Man Ive been waiting for ages for this . I think Im the first one to discover this hahahhhaaa This to me signals that with this update, the LEGIT arrival of iphone in China is imminent .

By: Prisca Leong

Prisca Leong — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:00:36 +0000

Hi heard u say abt getting apple stuff. anything about it up for grab?
pls email me the details and all to sezretz@gmail.com

I am interested in only authentic products from Apple.

By: Befreiphone

Befreiphone — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:04:01 +0000

Although iPhone 1.0 was illegal in China, it became the second largest iPhone market in the world (after the U.S). The one who benefited the most from illegal iPhone supplies to China was Apple, of course. With iPhone 2.0 Apple decided to change it’s policy making it very difficult to get the device without signing the contract.This decision made illegal iPhones 2.0 extremely expensive and, thus, the demand significantly dropped. Now Apple decides to supply iPhones to it’s largest illegal market legally, to increase the demand once again.
It is the same scheme Apple uses in the third largest iPhone market, Russia.

By: moduck

moduck — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:08:31 +0000

The network is not ready.
Unless iPhone release TD cdma version
Well, I think it’s still very very far away from reality

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Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:42:38 +0000

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By: yatender

yatender — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:15:19 +0000

I have seen subsidy on rations , diesel , cooking gas and the government here in india lessened these subsidies with much difficulty but i am surprised by a subsidy on a high end phone by a communist republic. this can happen only in china .
I wont not be surprised if the chinese telecom company put some measure in this deal to monitor peoples movement even t invades peoples privacy. but they must have being doing it already . even though it is a communist nation there must be rules made in its so called liberalised economy not to favour some particular company.

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Is The iPhone Coming To China? « Weblibraryjpn’s Weblog — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:46:17 +0000

[...] Is The iPhone Coming To China? (August 29, 2008 TechCrunch) A rumor is circulating that the iPhone may be finally making its way to China. The original source of the rumor is China Communications, which has cited a China Mobile insider as its source. According to the source, China Mobile will be offering the iPhone at a heavily subsidized discount in order to court the massive Chinese population, many of whom would have trouble affording an unsubsidized phone. [...]

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By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:30:24 +0000

Like many have said before me, the iPhone is immensely popular in China, particularly in Beijing. I moved from Palo Alto to Beijing and I probably see as many iPhones every day as I did in Palo Alto.

I happened to stumble upon the opening of the first Apple store in China the day it opened, and it was a sh*tshow. There was a line of 500 people just to get into the store! That little Tibet hiccup will subside (Like the protests against Carrefour did) and the Chinese will forget about it and continue drooling over and buying Apple.

If there’s any one rule for economics in China, it’s that in the way of physical products, demand beats all other factors, law included.

By: VW

VW — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:19:18 +0000

In that case, iPhone will be the sure winner VS Google Android. One of my contact in China kept asking us for pre-owned iPhones even though we don’t sell them. Apple has great brand recognition in China, and China Mobile data plan is only USD$2/month!

By: inosin

inosin — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:43:17 +0000

China don’t need iphone~

By: harry potter

harry potter — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:17:30 +0000

you make me ashamed to be chinese

By: FanWei

FanWei — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:26:33 +0000

On the other side,APPLE was afraid that ITUNEs could be broken in china, .
apple would gain lots of money,but could not play a big roll in china.

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By: Christine Lu

Christine Lu — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:02:49 +0000

Everyone I know in China who wanted an iPhone when it first came out. Already has one. A real one. A jailbroken one.

And yea, there are copycats. But newsflash…the real iPhone is made in China *gasp!* and that really hasn’t stopped folks outside of China from buying them by the hordes has it?

By: Christine Lu

Christine Lu — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:44 +0000

um, i barely touch the itunes store on my iPhone and iTunes in general was blocked in China all of a few days in the Olympics. highly doubt that’s going to deter Apple from wanting to *finally* sell these to 700 million mobile phone customers.

By: Achyut Telang

Achyut Telang — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:20:58 +0000

It is already launched in India but because of the higher price right now, everyone isn’t willing to buy it just yet. Would be interesting to see how it goes in China!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:38:46 +0000

The flag in the image you made should be rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise or the hand should be holding the phone “landscape” style