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China Mobile's Mobile Market(App Store) Report for Nov, 2009 - No Advertising Allowed in Apps
I've meant to write about China Mobile's Mobile Market(aka "app store") Report for Nov, 2009 when it first came out.
I finally got the chance!
Mobile Market has a approval process. The approval rate in Nov is 49.66%. 40.17% of the rejection was due to basic functionality not working. 29.84% of the rejection was because of apps not conforming to Mobile Market's standards.
One of Mobile Market's standards is no advertising inside apps(see page 6 of the report). Chinese don't have the habit of paying for software & apps. So China Mobile just shuts down one possible revenue stream for developers.
Tags: china mobile china-mobile app-store
The Other Real News of China Unicom Eunuch(Wi-Fi less) iPhone: China Unicom Owned App Store
Today, so much coverage has been focusing on the official announcement of iPhone and China Unicom deal to bring iPhone to China at the end of September. The first version of iPhone in China is confirmed not to have Wi-Fi but WAPI(A China home-grown wireless standard). China Unicom has denied about pre-ordering 5 million iPhones for 10 billion RMB(14.7 billion US dollars) and said the number of iPhones to be ordered depending on the market demand. The rumored price for a 8GB iPhone is 2999RMB with a pre-purchase of 3000RMB phone service credit.
Tags: china mobile iphone china-unicom wifi appstore itunes china-mobile android
The Other News of China Unicom Eunuch(Wi-Fi less) iPhone: No iTunes, No App Store
On July 31st, 2009, Sina Tech presented some images of iPhone that will be sold through China Unicom in China. There are lots of English news coverage. But all the news focus on iPhone of not having Wi-Fi.
Hello? That's not the only news! The China Unicom iPhone does NOT come with iTunes or the App Store.
- One reason can be that iPhone(already) mandates anything over 10MB(lots of gaming apps exceeding 10MB) needs to be downloaded via Wi-Fi which won't be present in iPhones sold through China Unicom.
Google is Evil: Your PPC Campaigns opt in Mobile Search Network by Default starting November 19, 2007
According to Clikz's post Google Ports AdWords Listings to Its Mobile Search Product: "Google will run listings free on Google Mobile Search pages through November 18. As of November 19, SEM buyers will have to opt out through the campaign summary page or pay for mobile clicks. While it is said ads will run across both the Web and mobile platforms, an e-mail sent to AdWords customers indicated that only ads with landing pages adaptable to mobile handsets will qualify for disbursement to the mobile search product." Here's the FAQ from Google.
