gadget to boost sales , especially the latest iPhone , in China , Apple took the telecom, operator of China Mobile . Previously , sales of two new iPhone , the iPhone 5S and 5C are very far from the expectations of Apple .
Chairman of China Mobile , Xi Guohua said that the iPhone is now the number of subscribers has reached two million .
Excerpted from The Wall Street Journal , sales of the iPhone premiered by the operator by subscribers in the world will begin on Friday ( 01/17/2014 ) .
" This weekend we will sell the iPhone in more than 3000 locations , China Mobile has been able to reach many cities which have not can be approached Apple , " said Apple CEO , Tim Cook .
Tim Cook feels very optimistic about its cooperation with China Mobile which is the largest telecommunications operator in China . Cooperation agreement with the operator not only a gadget only on sales .
" This is just the beginning , we have just started working together and I think there are a lot of cooperation that can be done both companies , " said Cook .
But unfortunately , the form of further cooperation between Apple and China Mobile are not further elaborated by both Cook and Xi .
In China , in addition to cooperation with China Mobile , Apple also pulled two other government -owned carrier , China Unicom and China Telecom .
However , despite sound promising , Apple continues to face challenges in China , because the devices are sold very expensive and there is no subsidy from the operator . Both of these make Chinese customers prefer Android smartphones .
According to the Apple website in China , the retail price of a 16 GB iPhone 5S in China without subsidies is 874 U.S. dollars . Meanwhile , the iPhone 5C with the same storage capacity for sale 742 U.S. dollars .
Analysts predict , through China Mobile , Apple could reach 700 million subscribers , or about seven times the customer's Verizon Wireless , the largest carrier in the U.S. . iPhone is also expected to fetch around 15 to 39 million devices in 2014 through this cooperation .
