Maverick was quoted in an article by Bruce Einhorn and Chi-Chu Tschang entitled "China's iPhone Fans Find a Way":
No. 2 operator China Unicom probably isn't much of an option for Apple, though..."I'm not sure that Apple would want to lock itself into a deal with what is clearly the weaker operator in the market," says Carini. "Apple is very conscious of its image."
Maverick was quoted in an article by Bruce Einhorn and Chi-Chu Tschang entitled "China's iPhone Fans Find a Way":
In China Mobile, Apple may have met its match. The Chinese company's Hong Kong-listed shares have risen 111 percent this year, about the same as Apple's. However, China Mobile has a market capitalization of $384 billion, compared to just $156 billion for Apple. If the Chinese operator is playing hard to get in talks over the iPhone, "it just highlights the dominance of China Mobile," says Dave Carini, an analyst in Beijing with research firm Maverick China. "They don't need to make deals like this. There is no need for it to make the kind of deal that American and European operators have been making."
No. 2 operator China Unicom probably isn't much of an option for Apple, though..."I'm not sure that Apple would want to lock itself into a deal with what is clearly the weaker operator in the market," says Carini. "Apple is very conscious of its image."
About a month ago we noted the appearance of iPhones in China's gray handset market.
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