iPhone Wants In On China

Ever wonder how hard it would be to get Apple’s iPhone to sell in China? Aside from all the obvious iPhone-clones out there, it isn’t an easy job trying to convince China Mobile to support the device, and details on the negotiations have (somehow) managed to find its way online. Apparently, Steve Jobs and Tim cook had problems agreeing on Apple’s request that China Mobile share 20%-30% of their monthly iPhone revenues. China Mobile was also reluctant to meet Apple’s demand of $600 per iPhone. After all has been said and done, even if the iPhone does make it safely into China, there is another issue of getting the App Store up, as China Mobile sees it as competition to China’s mobile internet industry. Fortuantely we’re not in charge of distributing Apple iPhones.