Last week China Unicom began selling the Apple iPhone officially in China for the first time ever, making the smartphone available to over 200 million subscribers.
Unicom is seemingly fighting for sales however, and 9to5mac is reporting that only 5000 units have been sold since launch. Bloomberg News adds that Apple expects only 460,000 iPhones to sell in the nation per year, a number ... [ read the full article ]
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Good...this hurts China Unicom (a government run capitalist group, run by a communist country). It also hurts Apple (the company that pushes AT&T on the US).
you'll find the iPhone offers poor features compared to the local phones.
So few people will be interested in buying it.
Look at the car audio side of thing Alpine doesn't have a blu-ray player or Divx player yet in china they have car player that'll do every format under the sun plus some more for like $50 and the alpine will be $1000.
