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Apple event in Beijing showcases products

updated 10:10 am EDT, Fri April 19, 2002

 
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Apple's Director of Business Development for Apple Greater China will be showcasing the latest products and technology from Apple as well as discuss how the "computer industry is adapting in the current economic climate" in a special event hosted on April 23rd in Beijing (China).


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  1. MacNN.com Reader

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    F.P.

    First post.

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    New Hardware!

    This means, without a shadow of a doubt, that new hardware will be released. Science has shown otherwise would be not only unlikely, but impossible.

  1. mattmacinnis

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    PhD candidate?

    Why is Mr. Ling, Apple's director of business development in greater China also a PhD candidate at Stanford? How could he possibly have time for both. China is big. So are PhDs.

  1. KenWedin

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    Too late in the game!!

    Apple totally missed the boat in China with its lack of dedication to refining the Chinese language kit and localized Chinese OS over the years. The great delay in releasing the language support updates for Chinese in OS X was inexcusable, especiallly when Japanese was fully supported right from the Public Beta version.

    However, getting a VP from Sina to represent Apple in China—late as it now is—was an intelligent choice, at least if he has any initiative.

    I doubt that Apple can get any kind of significant market in China at this late stage. Anyone who makes trips to Beijing's equivalent to Tokyo's Akihabara, located near the Summer Palace, recognizes that the percentage of Macs on sale have pretty much dwindled down to nothing.

  1. Eug

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    Don't rule out Apple yet

    PCs, like in North America, are inexpensive in China, and thus Macs are going to seem expensive in general. However, I suspect that some of the iMacs and such will seem like status symbols and may get some market from some of the more well-to-do (but initially certainly not the average Chinese). OTOH, laptops are not cheap there, and I can see iBooks becoming steady sellers.

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    Blessing in disguise?

    Since China is one of the biggest, if not the biggest source of software (computer and game system) piracy in the world (despite some pre-WTO membership efforts to rein it in), not being a big player in the Chinese market may actually help Apple prevent a deluge of cheap copies of OS and application software. These copies are made in China, but circulated worldwide.

    Of course, a potential market of whatever fraction of 1.2 billion people there can afford a computer is not to be sneered at, but I suspect Apple is better off simply showing the flag instead of aggressively going after market share and driving their application developers out of business because of piracy.

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    Apple Hardware

    Apple makes most of it's money from Computers, not software. As far as Apple is concerned, Buy a Mac, put what you want on it.

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