Read this
"The source of the rumour was China Business News which claimed inside sources at China Unicom's Guangdong subsidiary said Unicom had purchased 5 million handsets for $1.5 billion."
This is just a clarification on what was reported. You could stand to get it right too
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After all it would be adding $1.5 billion to the fruit themed retailers bottom line

No it would be adding it to their top line. Assuming of course that the production cost to Apple is not US$0.00 in which case you are right and I apologise.

If you are going to write business news stories please be accurate.