ECO204Y1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Plaintext, China Unicom, Iphone 3Gs

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25 Oct 2018
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High price for iphone in china will test the appetite for apple. Beijing apple inc. is a master at creating buzz around its product launches. But as the popular iphone approaches its official debut in china the world"s largest mobile-phone market consumers here seem anything b ut excited. That compares with about the consumers pay for the same product in nearby hong kong, which has different wireless carriers. "it"s too expensive," says marco bai, a teacher in beijing. He currently uses a smart phone a handset with souped-up functions like email and video made by a chinese domestic brand that cost him about. "there are many smart phones with similar functions" to the iphone in china, he says. China has an estimated 710 million mobile-phone subscribers, according to government figures. But the average customer pays less than for monthly service and only 7. 5% of the handsets sold in the country last year were smart phones like the iphone.

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