Sarah Frier for Bloomberg:

“They’re [Apple] more in a dictatorship mode where they say, ‘This is what you have to do or you don’t get the iPhone,’” Vasyl Latsanych, the Russian company’s vice president of marketing, said at the event. “Being arrogant with your partners in big markets doesn’t pay off.”

Latsanych works for MTS, Russia’s biggest regional cell phone carrier. Latsanych complains about the phone’s cost and about Apple’s requirements that “the carrier’s retail locations meet its standards, imposing additional burdens.”