With reports that Cook has met with China Mobile, and now the news that Jobs has met several times, we are getting closer and closer to a legal China Mobile iPhone.

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However, now it seems that we could see the stalemate between Apple and China Mobile extending longer than many anticipated.

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For sure we know that if this offer had come from China Mobile or China Telecom, it would have been dead on arrival.

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We believe that this huge subscriber base is what puts China Mobile in a better position to tap the growing smartphone demand than its rivals in the wireless market.

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We believe that this huge subscriber base is what puts China Mobile in a better position than rivals to tap the huge surge in demand for 3G in the coming years.

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We believe China Unicom is well positioned to benefit from a continued delay by China Mobile to launch the iPhone 5.

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We're not totally clear on why these guys need this on top of the Android Market and China Mobile's own Open Mobile System initiative, but for what it's worth, Chinese buyers of the XT701, MT710, and XT800 will have yet another way to find, buy, and store purchases for their phones.

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