And you thought the US App Store was bad

http://bit.ly/wX3Xh

Engadget is reporting on the annoucement that the iPhone is gonna be sold in China. People in the US who get pissed at AT&T for blocking apps that would use too much 3G bandwidth (like the Sling Player app), and at Apple for app approval craziness (like the recent Ninjawords dictionary censorship debacle) haven't seen anything yet.

We're talking about taking a phone with a closed app ecosystem to a country where World of Warcraft access was cut off to millions of users because it contains images that the communist government deemed objectionable. I wonder how Apple will manage the App Store there. Will it be a joint venture? It should be interesting to see how well Apple's draconian app store policies mesh in a hyper-restrictive culture.