Revenue Sharing

China Mobile president: technology and 'business model' hurdles to carrying iPhone

By Derek Kessler, Wednesday, Dec 5, 2012 a 10:28 pm

The relationship between China Mobile and Apple has been a strange one to watch unfold over the years. China Mobile president Li Yue recently spoke about his company's ongoing talks with Apple, which he said have been going on since 2009, and have become "more intimate" in the last year (the same talks were confirmed back in May of this year). While the technology stumbling block would be acknowledged by anybody involved, Li says that it's not just technology that's holding things up - there's the whole issue of money too.

Google Paying Carriers to Go Android, Apple Still Charging for iPhone

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Mar 26, 2010 a 7:16 am

Well technically Google seems to be sharing revenue generated from services like Search, Gmail, Maps, etc. with their carrier and manufacturing partners to incentivize their "going Android". If rumors of Apple making a cool $100,000,000 a year from Google for iPhone search are any indicator, the money may be nothing to sneeze at either.