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...should hardly be a surprise that the iPhone is coming to China. Apple Inc.'s iconic mobile device is manufactured here, and an estimated 2 million have already been sold on the gray market on the mainland. But a deal announced on Aug. 28 by China Unicom, the country's second largest mobile service provider, will make the phone available to hundreds of millions of mainland consumers, opening a huge new market to Apple. China now has nearly 700 million mobile phones in use, almost as many as the next two largest mobile-phone nations - India and the U.S. - combined...
...their land en masse by rebels or their foes, the paramilitaries. Following Mao's advice to separate the water from the fish, the warring factions depopulated the land to disrupt the enemy's civilian support network. According to Codhes, such scorched-earth tactics have uprooted more than 4.5 million people since 1985, leaving Colombia (pop. 45 million) with the world's second largest population of internally displaced persons (IDPs). Only Sudan, with nearly 5 million, has more. (The Bogotá government began keeping track of IDPs in 1997 and its running total is 3.1 million...
Worldwide, there are more than twice as many displaced people - about 25 million - as war refugees, according to the U.N. But because they do not cross international borders, which can provoke the wrath of governments and the attention of aid groups, they are sometimes overlooked. In Colombia, most people live in the cities where security has improved. By contrast, the displaced are often impoverished Indians and Afro-Colombians who live in the most remote pockets of the countryside where few votes are at stake...
...much as 5% to 6% of Apple's global sales, says Zhang Jun, a Beijing-based analyst with the research firm Wedge MKI. Zhang believes that in the near future, China could make up as much as 10% of the world's iPhone market, which has reached 26 million units in the past two years. "It will add a lot of sales," he says...
...Still, some analysts question whether China Unicom will have the marketing and customer-service skills to drive iPhone sales. The company has 140 million wireless customers, compared with market leader China Mobile's nearly 500 million. While the iPhone comes with a marketing halo that few Chinese companies can match, it will be up to Unicom to harness that. "Unicom has never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity," says Clark. "But this might be the time they transcend that." The agreement with China Unicom is not exclusive and offers no revenue-sharing for Apple, meaning the U.S. computer maker...