Tuesday, April 21, 2009

According to IDG News Service
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China Mobile hopes to launch an application service like the iPhone's App Store by the end of this year as it unrolls a next-generation mobile network, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday.

The Mobile Market was a sticking point in China Mobile's negotiations with Apple to offer the iPhone in China, according to analysts. Apple opposed competition for its App Store and China Mobile wanted to be able to offer iPhone apps in its Mobile Market, analysts say.

This is a remarkable evolution: from a free piece of software for organizing ripped songs (Apple iTunes) to a dominant business model in the world of mobile content distribution.

== The greater the scale of the system, the more valuable the Control element is. ==

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