经过多年的长途谈判，本周三，苹果（Apple）和中国移动（China Mobile）两家公司的掌门人终于在北京举行了首次联合新闻发布会。

    本周五，中国移动就将开始向7.6亿用户发售移动定制版iPhone手机。

    消费者新闻与财经电视频道（CNBC）报道称，在移动于周五发售iPhone前，中国第二大和第三大运营商——中国联通（China Unicom）与中国电信（China Telecom）双双下调了各自定制版iPhone的售价。

    在美国，投资者一直在猜测，在中国这个全球最大的手机市场上，与中国移动的合作能否帮助苹果收复被韩国以及中国本土厂商夺走的“失地”。

    苹果首席执行官蒂姆•库克接受《华尔街日报》（the Wall Street Journal）采访时表示：“截止本周末，我们将在另外3000多个网店销售iPhone。中国移动在许多苹果尚未设点的城市都建立了销售网点。”

    《华尔街日报》援引中国移动董事长奚国华的话称，移动用户已经预订了“数百万”台iPhone。

    After years of long-distance negotiations, the chairmen of Apple (AAPL) and China Mobile (CHL) staged their first joint press conference in Beijing Wednesday.

    CNBC reports that ahead of Friday's launch, China Unicom (CHU) and China Telecom (CHA), the country's No. 2 and No. 3 carriers, respectively, cut their iPhone prices.

    In the U.S., investors have been placing bets on whether the China Mobile deal will enable Apple to win back the share it has been losing to Korean and Chinese manufacturers in the world's largest mobile phone market.

    "As of this weekend we will be selling iPhones in more than 3,000 additional locations," Apple CEO Tim Cook told the Wall Street Journal. "China Mobile already has a reach to many cities that Apple does not have a reach to."

    The Journal quoted China Mobile CEO Xi Guo-hua saying that "millions" of Apple's iPhones already have been ordered by the carrier's customers.

    这个数字与CNBC记者尤尼斯•尹了解到的情况有些出入。在他视频采访的附文中，尹写道，2013年12月25日至2014年1月13日，中国移动共接到120万部iPhone订单，约合每天6万部。

    在本周二发布的另一篇报道中，《华尔街日报》援引“熟悉此事的人士”称，富士康（Foxconn）已向中国移动发货140万部iPhone。

    另外，台湾厂商和硕（Pegatron）也在为苹果代工组装iPhone。

    2013年12月对苹果分析师的调查显示，分析师们对中国移动2014年iPhone销量的预测从500万台到3900万台不等。

    苹果公司股价于本周二收于每股546.49美元，涨幅达到了10.66美元（约合2%）。眼下一夜之间每股价格又攀升了10美元。（财富中文网）

    译者：项航

    That's not what CNBC's Eunice Yoon heard. In the story accompanying her video report, she wrote that between Dec. 25 and Jan. 13 China Mobile had received 1.2 million pre-orders, or 60,000 per day.

    In a separate report Tuesday, the Journal reported, citing "a person familiar with the matter," that Foxconn had shipped 1.4 million iPhones to China Mobile.

    iPhones are also being assembled for Apple by Pegatron, a Taiwanese manufacturer.

    In a December survey of Apple analysts, estimates for how many iPhones Chine Mobile would sell in 2014 ranged from 5 million to 39 million.

    Apple shares, which closed at $546.49 Tuesday, up $10.66 (2%), added another $10 overnight.