{"id":166,"date":"2008-11-20T00:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhirsch.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/20\/china-mobile-puts-on-turtleneck\/"},"modified":"2012-04-25T14:53:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T13:53:24","slug":"china-mobile-puts-on-turtleneck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/20\/china-mobile-puts-on-turtleneck\/","title":{"rendered":"China Mobile puts on turtleneck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/SSSzsLTmceI\/AAAAAAAADY8\/XAP71f6mv1s\/s1600-h\/China+Mobile+logo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;cursor:hand;width:200px;height:55px;margin:0 10px 10px 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_krrmJx627x4\/SSSzsLTmceI\/AAAAAAAADY8\/XAP71f6mv1s\/s200\/China+Mobile+logo.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>The theme starts becoming lame, I know (and I herewith promise to look for new semi-funny references to Steve Jobs). However: if the world&#8217;s largest operator by subscribers changes its dress culture, that is to say swaps from a tightly controlled walled garden to a free store concept, that surely merits this. So, without further ado: China Mobile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;articleId=9120678\">plans<\/a> to launch its very own AppStore. Its Chairman &amp; CEO Wang Jianzhou (who was, I think, not sighted in Mr Job&#8217;s favourite garment) announced this at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsmworld.com\/\">GSMA<\/a> Mobile Asia Congress in Macau. Now, with a whopping 436.1m subscribers, this opens fairly interesting vistas for mobile content &#8211; if, yes if, one can hit Chinese taste, that is. They specifically cite Apple&#8217;s success with its iPhone as a trigger for them to do it. Truly impressive that a company so big would move so quickly.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This will surely hit the news wires some more in the coming days but I will now retire and brush up on my Mandarin&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme starts becoming lame, I know (and I herewith promise to look for new semi-funny references to Steve Jobs). However: if the world&#8217;s largest operator by subscribers changes its dress culture, that is to say swaps from a tightly controlled walled garden to a free store concept, that surely merits this. So, without further [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[484],"tags":[52,1350,123,267,310,394,398,404,711],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oem","tag-app-store","tag-apple","tag-china-mobile","tag-gsma","tag-iphone","tag-mobile-applications","tag-mobile-content","tag-mobile-games","tag-wang-jianzhou"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSwZv-2G","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1728,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/1728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhirsch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}