China Has Plenty Of iPhones Without Apple.
02.18.08 - 11:29am
Apple and China Mobile may not have agreed on a collaboration for the iPhone, but that hasn’t stopped Chinese consumers from purchasing the phone and running it on the China Mobile network. As of the end of 2007 China Mobile said they had over 400,000 iPhones active on it’s network. Amounting to more than has been activated in all of Europe.
“The main reasons that Chinese mobile users purchase smartphones include entertainment (such as music players, cameras and video) and to access mobile Internet applications (such as IM, e-book, and games). We believe the iPhone will be favored by these consumers as it can better meet such demand”, Anty Zheng, Content Manager In-Stat China, explained in a February report.
China is the largest mobile phone market in the world. It has a population of over 1.3 billion, amassing more people than any other country in the world. It also has over 350 million mobile phone subscribers currently subscribed with China Mobile and an expected growth to 500 million in the next year.
