Where SPECIFICALLY did Apple state that they hope the iPhone could enter the Chinese market in 2010?

I don't believe anyone from Apple EVER wrote or stated anything about 2010. I believe your report is inaccurate and miss-leading.

I've just read through the entire March 28, 2009 Apple 10Q and there is no mention of any delay for iPhone in China until 2010. iPhone in China is not mentioned in the most recent Apple Q2 2009 10Q report. You can find it here > https://www.apple.com/investor/

Perhaps your story is based on a very poorly researched report by Ynet.com and Trading Markets in the US who repeated a bad miss-translation of the Apple Q2 2009 earnings conference call

The Ynet.com report translated a quote from Apple COO Tim Cook about iPhone in China as follow …
"Although the Chinese market, we have not yet entered, but we hope to be able to enter the market next year, and we do in the efforts to this end."

This was NOT an accurate quote. The true (correct) quote was: “We now have have the four “BIRC” countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China (Hong Kong), we have three of those up (not yet PRC) and we have 8,000 storefronts in those three selling the iPhone, so we feel very good about that and we’re putting a lot of energy in growing those. China we are not in yet. We would like to be in China within the next year (i.e. anytime within the next 12 months) and we’re clearly working on that. But I’ve got nothing specific to announce today on it (iPhone deals in China).”

I hope you will site your source or correct the record.

Dan Butterfield
Editor, iPhonAsia