" Together, the iPhone and iPad accounted for 60.98% of Apple's revenue in the last four quarters.
Numbers like these are why Apple is so hot to get the iPhone launched in a big way in China. Although the companyhas been selling the iPhone officially on China Unicom since 2009, Unicom is the smallest of the three major Chinese carriers.
Of course, when we saysmall, we're talking about 180 million subscribers, more thanAT&T or Verizon in the US. That's how big the potential market for the iPhone is in China.
The big fish is reallyChina Mobile, the 616 million-subscriber juggernaut that is China's largest mobile carrier. That's why it's not surprising that then-COO Tim Cook was seen visiting China Mobile in June. Apple wants to get this deal made.
Even more evidence came in the form of China Mobile's chairman Wang Jianzhou stating during an earnings call last month that then-CEO Steve Jobs had met with him several times already about the deal."
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