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iPhone in China Not Selling So Well… Official Version at Least

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No big sales in China, it seems, and no big surprise given the low initial numbers we saw, and the prevalence — and huge pre-existing install base — of black and gray-market iPhones (with wifi!) smuggled into the country. And if that sounds apologist’ic, yeah, sorry. But iLounge is reporting:

Taobao.com, the largest Chinese [...]

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iPhone in China — Only 5000 Served?

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The iPhone finally went on sale in China last week, and according to Business Week, only 5000 appear to have been sold.

Scratch that. Do over. An overly expensive, Wi-Fi crippled version of the iPhone eventually went on sale in China, where over 2 million cheaper, unlocked, gray-market iPhones with functioning Wi-Fi have already been sold [...]

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