苹果寻求更大的咬中国庞大的移动MarketApple has struck a long-awaited, multi-year deal with China Mobile to make its illustrious devices available to the largest mobile network in the world.

ByGeoff Weiss

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在美国,苹果公司的iPhone的迎来了一个新的时代smart devices, revolutionizing the digital landscape as we know it--and racking up billions in the process. But will the product, launched roughly six years ago, have a similar impact on the rapidly expansive Chinese market?

In a highly-anticipated, multi-year deal inked with China Mobile, Apple will roll out its latest iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c on January 17 to the carrier's network of 760 million consumers--the largest wireless network in the world.

While Apple has already sold approximately 23 million iPhones in China through the second and third largest carriers in the country--China Unicom and China Telecom, respectively--China Mobile more than doubles the reach of both competitors combined.

Related:Apple Becomes China's Third Highest Smartphone Distributor

Though the Cupertino-headquartered brand boasts an almost-mythical status stateside and throughout much of Europe, its late arrival to China means steep competition from locally-manufactured, cheaper devices that utilize the nemesis Android operating system.

And in China--unlike in America--there are actually more mobile applications available for Android users than there are in Apple's App Store.

Pricing details will be available at a later date, Apple said, and devices will be sold within its own retail stores as well as China Mobile locations. Customers can pre-register as of Christmas day on China Mobile'swebsite.

"We can't think of a better way to welcome in the Chinese New Year than getting an iPhone into the hands of every China Mobile customer who wants one," Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement.

Related:How to Do Business in China

Geoff Weiss

Former Staff Writer

Geoff Weiss is a former staff writer at Entrepreneur.com.

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