Apple's Chinese partner sells 5000 iPhones in debut

[Tomo3000]

Apple Inc.'s local partner has sold 5,000 iPhones since the smart phone's formal weekend debut in China, a lackluster start after analysts warned the company might be setting prices too high.

Apple's Chinese partner sells 5000 iPhones in debut

 

[Ou grote]

They're getting shafted big time, and its still cheaper than getting one here.

 

[purejimcn]

to add some salt to our south african wounds here is wat u get for the top end contract with china unicom on the iphone:

Cost of contract: 886 Yuan pm (about R970)
Cost of iPhone: 0 for 32gig model white or black
Free minutes: 3000 pm
Free Data: 4GB pm
Free sms: 880 pm
Free mms: 95 pm
Cost to receive calls: 0 (it normally costs to receive calls in china)

after the bundle runs out it cost 0.15 Yuan per minute of calling (about 0.165 Rand) and 0.0003 Yuan per kb of data which works out to under 0.4 Rand per mb...

when will vodacom and mtn ever get close to those prices???