Wasn't the problem has to do with small vendors, not big names? I would assume that was the issue? And if so, my guess is people just thought Chinese market wa

Wasn't the problem has to do with small vendors, not big names? I would assume that was the issue? And if so, my guess is people just thought Chinese market was too complicated to handle (speaking from a Chinese perspective...) and particularly it was hard to deal with all the malware, links rewrite and law conflicts at all once, even with the powerful cash Google has. And since the Google China incident, Google doesn't seem to have any interest in the Chinese market anymore. It is a big market, but the effort to put into it to compete with local competitor is just way too much; plus Apple is already part of competition. I am actually amazed how Apple is able to succeed. To many people in China, owning an expensive phone like iPhone is a necessity (well, maybe I will call it a norm). Right now I think mobile market is shifting interest to developing regions like South America and Southeast Asia.