“A single listing on the Apple’s career pages suggests the company has pledged itself to releasing the iPhone in China, one of its most elusive markets,” Aidan Malley reports for AppleInsider.
“The posting made Thursday for an iPhone Quality Assurance Engineer in Beijing doesn’t try to mask its likely role,” Malley reports. “Apple is looking to ‘to focus on international releases of our iPhone and iPod touch products for Beijing,’ it reads.”
“Apple chief Steve Jobs has said he hoped to launch iPhone in China and Russia by the end of 2008, and has already achieved this last goal with a three-carrier deal. No progress updates have been given since then; with the new job listing, though, Apple may have provided the first signs of clearing an impasse,” Malley reports.
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “James W.” for the heads up.]