App Store performing well in China despite hindrances

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Last August, China Unicom Ltd (CHU) voiced the 3-year partnership to strictly bring the iPhone to China. As likely in July, the CHU's iPhone is sole with Wi-Fi disabled, in accordance with the Golden Shield Project. Additionally, 3GS hardware is still unavailable in China.

Despite these hindrances, handset as good as App Store sales have been doing well, AppleInsider reports. It's estimated which $1 million in legitimate app sales have been done this year, with the small over the month-and-a-half left in the quarter.

Black marketplace phones are the outrageous problem in China, as good as it's been estimated scarcely 2 million are in circulation, most of them jailbroken as good as running pirated apps. Apple hopes to sell 500,000 iPhones in China by the year's end.

Next year looks brighter: Wi-Fi regulations were relaxed behind in May, as good as CHU hopes to have the Wi-Fi enabled model available soon.

[Via AppleInsider]

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