Steve Jobs doesn’t particularly strike me as someone who takes rejection well, particularly when it’s his iPhone-baby that’s being turned down, so I can’t imagine things are particularly happy on that, the eve of the Macworld Keynote, with the news that China Mobile has rejected the Apple cellphone and pulled out of talks with the company.  While no official statement was made explaining their reasons, many have assumed that the

high percentages of revenue Apple demanded from handset sales and game, music and video downloads were decent to sour any potential deal.  China Mobile’s CEO, Wang Jianzhou, has been vocally dismissive of revenue sharing in the past, and the network is obviously in a strong position being the largest in the country.

 

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Orginal post by Chris Davies