Found Footage: Steve Jobs interview on CNBC

AAPL's a large cap that trades like a small cap. Pretty predictable patterns if you watch it around events.

Big traders love to push it around and play the volatility. They make a killing on the MOVES, not the long term holds.

China Mobile （中國移動通信）and Apple left the negotiation table in January. I suspect they'll resume talks when either China Mobile or Apple starts to bend backwards for each other. Having done business in China, Chinese negotiators will initially be stubborn, but it won't be long before they'll start working with you.

Apparently, China Mobile started rumors that it was going to carry Blackberries, and Apple didn't take to it too kindly: "(China Mobile) knows that Apple is talking to all the Chinese carriers," Blackfriars' Carl Howe speculated a few months back. "So it spreads rumors that the talks have broken down and seeds another rumor that it is bringing in Blackberries for its customers instead." (http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/01/china-mobile-an.html)

Like everyone else has stated, China is too big of a market to miss, especially given the large number of illegal iPhone sales going to China. The rich/upper-class Chinese have an appreciation of brand names, and Apple would be wise to not miss out on this opportunity.

I'm surprised they didn't enter a deal with Taiwan telecom providers, given that they brokered one with Hong Kong. Maybe because its economy has been doing so poorly the last few years...

3G is available in St.Petersburg Russia for half a year already with two different providers. Suspect that if there is a Russian branch of Apple (which I'm not sure, but most likely). They are just not doing their Jobs well. A huge market is flooded with unofficial iPhones without contract and other apple products that are sold by resellers almost twice the price.