Earlier this month, China Unicom and Apple finally came to an agreement to bring the popular smartphone, the iPhone, to China, albeit with Wi-Fi missing.
Today, showing they mean business, the Chinese carrier has ordered 5 million iPhone 3GS units, for about $1.46 billion USD. As a notable comparison, Apple sold just over 5 million iPhone units globally in the last quarter.
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I don't expect they'll have much trouble selling these, since the company is owned by the government. They'll just make a law that says you must buy the phone. Done deal.
Originally posted by cart0181: I don't expect they'll have much trouble selling these, since the company is owned by the government. They'll just make a law that says you must buy the phone. Done deal.
Even the chinese are not that heavy handed. Their government run companies act a lot like the companies that run the governments in other countries like the USA.
Still, they should not have any trouble unloading 5 million phones onto a population like China's.
