China is one of the most important markets for Apple and despite the fact that most terminals are cloned there, the company earns a lot of money. According to those from Apple, at the end of this year the company concluded that 15% of its revenues were generated by China and with a total of 156 billion dollars in revenues, we can say that 23.4 billion dollars came from China alone in 2012. The figure is very high, and if we think that in 2009 only 2% of Apple's revenues came from China, we can get an idea about the progress made by Apple in that region.
Although Apple sells well in China, the largest telephone operator in the world still does not sell iPhone terminals. Apple could access a base of several hundred million subscribers in China, but it has to make a special iPhone for that operator and it will do it, but the development process will take some time and probably in 2013 the company will offer the iPhone there . Through this launch, Apple could substantially increase its sales, especially if it offers the iPhone 5, but we will learn more only after the device is part of that operator's offer.
