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Chinese Apple users favor free programs

Wang Jingjing, 25, a tour guide in Beijing, who bought her iPhone last year, said she has never downloaded any paid apps.

Chen also attributed Chinese users' habit of not paying for apps to piracy.

"China is currently the biggest market for 'jailbreak', a process that allows people to install paid apps for free, and which makes the paid apps more difficult to sell," he said.

You Yunting, a partner at the DeBund Law Offices in Shanghai, who specializes in intellectual property rights, said piracy has made many Chinese consumers take for granted that software and programs should be free.

Developers have a hard time in China because of that.

"When a good game is developed and put into the market, hundreds of copycats mushroom within a month," he said.

Questions:

1. How much revenue is generated by each iOS app download in China?

2. How about in the US?

3. Why do Chinese consumers take for granted that software and programs should be free?

Answers:

1. 3 US cents.

2. 28 cents.

3. Rampant piracy.

About the broadcaster:

Nelly Min is an editor at China Daily with more than 10 years of experience as a newspaper editor and photographer. She has worked at major newspapers in the U.S., including the Los Angeles Times and the Detroit Free Press. She is also fluent in Korean.