中国移动同Apple商谈引入iPhone

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China Mobile in talks with Apple over iPhone

Bringing the iPhone to Europewas big, but potentially bigger for Apple is the Chinese market, whichprobably explains why China Mobile CEO Wang Jianzhou is in talks withthe company over its much publicized handset. Mr. Jianzhou admitted ina speech at the GSM Association's Mobile Asia Congress that he doesn'tlike the revenue sharing agreements that Apple has managed to wrangle:you and every other mobile executive worldwide, Wang! But who knows, maybe the fact that China Mobile has 349.66 million subscribers will be enough for Apple to maketwo very big exceptions and do a more traditional deal. Whateverhappens, the Chinese market is likely to throw some curveballs atApple's usual pitch.
 
From Yahoo News
San Francisco - China Mobile is in talks with Apple to sell the iPhone in China,the company's CEO said on Tuesday. But he's not keen on the typeof revenue-sharing model that Apple has insisted on elsewhere in theworld.
"Ourcustomers like this kind of fashionable product," Wang Jianzhou, ChinaMobile's CEO, on the sidelines of the GSM Association's Mobile AsiaCongress in Macau.
But in a speech at the conference, Wang said he doesn't like some of the new business models emerging in the mobile phone industry, including handset makers wanting to share revenue with mobile operators.
"We still think we can maintain the operator-centric model because we have the customers, the end-users," Wang said.
Apple has been signing exclusive deals with operators to sell its iPhone, including O2 in the United Kingdom and AT&T in the United States. As part of the deal, Apple requires the operators to pay it a portion of their iPhone subscriber revenue.
Apple has said it will roll out iPhonesin Asia next year, and China Mobile would be a good catch for thecompany. It is the world's largest mobile operator, boasting almost 350million subscribers at the end of September.
However, China Mobile is also a member of Google's Open Handset Alliance, a consortium of technology and service companies that will develop products based on Google's Android mobile phone platform, which will be a competitor for the iPhone.
Wang took a shot at today's music-playing phones. When phone makersadd music players to their handsets, they tend to end up with a goodphone and a bad music player, he said, and vice-versa for makers ofmusic players.
The idea of connecting a mobile phone to a computer to downloadmusic is also undesirable, he said. Mobile phones should download musicdirectly from the mobile network, he said.
China Mobile has already had some success with its own mobile music service. More than 60 million people are using the service, and more than 240 million music ringtones have been downloaded, he said.