October 30, 2009: Two years after launching in the United States, the iPhone finally goes on sale in China, giving Apple a chance to reach the world’s largest market. A number of regulatory hurdles previously blocked Apple’s access to China, including restrictions on Wi-Fi functionality. With those problems solved, Apple offers the iPhone 3GS to the country’s 1.3 billion people, most of whom do not yet own smartphones. First iPhone goes on sale in China iPhones had been unofficially available in China since early in the product’s life. By 2008, a year after the original iPhone launch, BusinessWeek reported that...