Now that Apple's iPhone is officially for sale in China, the question is, will the country's 700 million mobile phone users really want to buy it? The answer is No.
The black, 16-gigabyte iPhone 3GS Xiao was admiring goes for 5,880 yuan ($861) without a service contract, which is more than half of the country's per capita urban disposable income, according to figures from the National Bureau of Statistics.
Apple says it hopes to sell five million handsets over the next several years. Yet the telecom company reported on November 4 that only 5,000 had been sold since launch, fueling existing skepticism among analysts that the carrier will not be able to reach its hoped-for target.
Price isn't the only challenge facing the iPhone here. The market is already flooded with what some project to be around two million iPhones, some of which are fakes, while others are purchased from unauthorized sellers, smuggled in from Hong Kong and other countries.
Not only are the gray-market iPhones cheaper, but they also contain features, like Wi-Fi Internet service, that are not included with legitimate iPhone handsets.
Wi-Fi has been disabled on Unicom's iPhones to comply with Chinese government rules!!! 
