"Among all the international smartphone brands competing in China, Apple is the only one not offering a product that complies with [China Mobile's] air standard

"Among all the international smartphone brands competing in China, Apple is the only one not offering a product that complies with [China Mobile's] air standard," said Kevin Wang, the IHS report's author, in a press release. "For Apple, this is a huge disadvantage." The iPhone hardware supports only GSM and CDMA, not the Chinese TD-SCDMA standard [1]. According to this [2] article it would be far from simple for Apple to create a Chinese variant, although to me the commercial case seems very strong. Does anyone with knowledge of this kind of hardware integration have informed opinions about this? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TD-SCDMA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TD-SCDMA [2] http://gigaom.com/apple/apples-iphone-dilemma-should-it-make-a-chinese-special/ http://gigaom.com/apple/apples-iphone-dilemma-should-it-make...