Apple Preps iPhone for China

Going Global

Updated Apr. 25, 2017 2:08PM EDT / Published Aug. 26, 2009 6:15PM EDT

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Apple is one major market away from total global immersion, and they don’t like it. The Wall Street Journal reports that China’s 687 million cellphone users may soon have Apple’s fastest-growing product to reckon with. Apple is reportedly nearing a deal with China’s state-owned wireless company, China Unicom, and an iPhone prototype has already been approved by the government’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. But will China like the iPhone? The Journal notes that iPhone’s Japan launch was weak, due in part to Asia’s robust mobile-phone industry.

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Apple Preps iPhone for China

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