Analysts say the size of the potential market is so enormous that iPhone sales there would dwarf sales elsewhere around the globe, writes Fast Company. Running the numbers, and assuming 100-125 million Chinese buyers, Apple (NasdaqGS: AAPL) would take in $70 billion from Chinese iPhone sales alone—more than 20 times what it earned from China in 2010.
“China has the potential to become the second largest and perhaps even the largest market [for Apple] over time,” said Shaw Wu, an analyst with Sterne Agee in San Francisco
http://blogs.forbes.com/raykwong/2011/07/19/china-iphone-beaucoup-bucks/