Mobile quietly began to accept the iphone pre-order orders

December 04, 2013 05:14 Sina Science and technology Weibo I have to say (134 people to participate) mobile began to accept the iphone reservation Sina Science and technology news Beijing time December 4, according to the wealth website reported that China Mobile has quietly begun to accept the Apple iphone smartphone purchase order. Now that China is Apple's largest market outside the US, the company needs to expand its share in the Chinese market to try to offset the slowdown in the growth of market revenues in developed countries. The smartphone market in developed countries is becoming more saturated, and its competition is rather fierce. On the other hand, China Unicom, such as Hong Kong companies and other competitors to absorb new users is accelerating, which makes the Chinese mobile is difficult to maintain growth difficulties. In the second quarter, Apple's share of the Chinese market has fallen to seventh place, with a share of just 5%, not just as far from Samsung as it is for local manufacturers such as Lenovo and ZTE. In its report, the wealth Web site included a screenshot from a reservation site that was registered by a Chinese mobile subsidiary in the south, and has since Monday accepted the iphone 5s and iphone 5c orders. US Eastern Time Tuesday 6:30 (19:30), the page has been replaced with a notice that the site is being upgraded and will soon be ready to accept the pre-order order again. China Mobile has not yet commented on the news, and Apple declined to comment. At the end of October this year, China Mobile launched 4G Mobile online ads on its web site, prompting the market to anticipate a long-awaited distribution agreement between the company and Apple. Over the years, Apple has been trying to reach a distribution agreement with China Mobile, whose executives have visited China Mobile's Beijing headquarters many times. Apple has repeatedly insisted that the Chinese market is crucial to the company. The report on the wealth website prompted Wall Street to speculate that the two sides would soon announce a partnership, meaning the iphone would be open to more than 740 million subscribers to China Mobile. But analysts have pointed out that negotiations between the two companies have not been smooth, in part because of disagreements over details such as income sharing. China Mobile has been faced with difficulties in attracting users to its high-speed 3G standard, which currently accounts for only one-fifth of the total number of users. As of August, 40% users of China Unicom's Hong Kong company have used 3G networks and China Telecom is 52%. If Apple works with China Mobile, its iphone sales will increase sharply, which will help boost Apple's share price. For the past year or so, Apple's share price has been stuck under 600 dollars. In the Tuesday Nasdaq routine, Apple's shares rose 15.09 to $566.32, or 2.74%, to a 52-week high, mainly because of a study by Swiss bank analysts to raise their stock rating to "buy". In the past 52 weeks, Apple's top price was 581.80 dollars, the lowest price is 385.10 dollars. (Tangfeng)