Jeff Campbell
02-11-2009, 08:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/2/iphone-app-store-keeping-apple-out-of-china' target='_blank'>http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/2/...le-out-of-china</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Apple is still having a hard time agreeing on terms so that China Mobile, the world's largest mobile operator, can sell the iPhone. The latest hurdle: China Mobile -- like many carriers -- feels threatened by Apple's wildly successful App Store, according to Interfax TMT China."</em></p><p><em><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/at/auto/1234304999.usr105634.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></em></p><p><a href="http://www.apple.com" target="_blank">Apple</a> doesn't want to give up control of iTunes, and <a href="http://www.chinamobile.com/en/" target="_blank">China Mobile</a> doesn't like the idea of not having control of the apps that the customers of China Mobile can put on the<a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/" target="_blank"> iPhone</a>. China Mobile also wants their customers to use the planned China Mobile store and not iTunes for their applications. So for round 3 of the negotiations they are once again at a stalemate. This hasn't stopped the iPhone from coming to China, however, where there are an estimated 400,000 unlocked iPhones.</p>