throwing out numbers considering Apple doesn't yet sell iPhones in China. I'm curious if Apple will sell some Chinese version of the iPhone that will be fairly less expensive than the U.S. counterpart.

I'm writin' me a new app, and all it will do is fill the screen with FREE TIBET.

Let's watch to see how China puts tons of restraints on apps, website access, and whatever else they feel threatened by. And watch another American company cave into their demands rather than stand up to these pseudo-communist bullies.

The "Free Tibet" app wouldn't make it past the approval process of course, but it will be interesting to see how Apple tries to dance around China's requests.

China is oriented pretty close to a Fascist model nowadays but both Google and Yahoo have caved to their demands (MS too but that's a given for them).

They already have a Chinese iTunes store but it looks at the moment as if it's all apps and no media content. I wonder how that's going to work? If Apple allows a separate media store to provision the iPhone, then they are opening the door to competitors, if they force them to connect to iTunes, then Apple is censoring (more than they already do), content.

In one way, as a non-USA citizen I find the outrage about China censorship kind of amusing. Apple already heavily censors what you can and can't see or buy on iTunes, but it does so in a way that is acceptable to USA citizens. The difference here is really only that China censors things that USA citizens would not.

Are they really that different? How will Apple handle censorship moving forward as a global entity?

@ bredlo

And after you're done, you can release a "Give The Land Back to The Native Americans" app.

in one way, as a non-USA citizen I find the outrage about China censorship kind of amusing.

Oh, many a USA citizen finds it hysterical (in the comic way, although the outrage is also hysterical in the 'hysteria' way), and it has nothing to do with Apple.

"Yahoo censors their results! Shame on them! Ban them from doing business! Now off to Target to get my $5 sweat socks made by political prisoners!"

Apple already heavily censors what you can and can't see or buy on iTunes, but it does so in a way that is acceptable to USA citizens. The difference here is really only that China censors things that USA citizens would not.

Oh, and lest we forget, we're also in an uproar over any attempt by companies trying to help China track down people over the internet. Sure, companies do the same in the US, all without warrants or real cause, all the time, but that's different. They're 'protecting' us from terrorists, child p***, and illegal music sharing.

It's the "Others should be more tolerant of Americans, but Americans should not be tolerant of anyone different than us" mentality.

OMG! Daddy let you use the computer today! How nice!

So now you're into making fun of people's names and saying they drink their own pee. Wow, you must be the hit with the 8 year olds.

And what is this whole "Drinking your own pee" thing? Is that supposed to raise one's ability to combat Steve Jobs' RDF?

Oh, and at least I log in to post, not hide behind some "Guest" posting.