Month: February 2008

Apple skipping Singapore for iPhone launch?

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We all know what the main hurdles to having an official iPhone launch in Singapore are.

1. Setting up an iTunes Store for Singapore

2. Breaking the local laws on locking handphones to a single provider

Well, seems that the hurdles are too high a barrier for Apple to break in order to sell iPhones officially to this small country.

According to a relatively reliable source, the local telcos are reportedly unhappy with Apple trying to get too huge a share of the profits and after looking at the number of unofficial iPhones already existing on their networks, the local telcos might have already given up trying for an official launch. Apple, on the other hand, have both found the possible profits (or the lack of) from having an official iPhone in Singapore unworthy of spending their time and resources here.

According to yet another source, Apple Singapore refuses to even give any unofficial comments as to if there will be an official launch in Singapore.

Looks like Singaporeans will have to resort to using the better iPhone, the unlocked one.

Japanese engineers are jealous about the MacBook Air and declared it full of shit

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This link features a bunch of Japanese engineers whining about how bad the internal designs of the MacBook Air is. Their complaints?

1. Too much screws resulting in “great increase” in cost

2. Argued that there are alternatives to the MacBook Air’s design which will lower the cost, but they themselves could not provide any examples of alternative designs

3. Stated that if they submitted such a design to their company heads, their company heads will never approve it (Now you know why Japanese are no longer revered for their designs, the people at the top are idiots)

4. Believed that if Apple gave them the design for manufacturing, they will NOT follow the designs, instead try and cut costs by changing the design to use lesser components (This sounds like the exact reason why certain old buildings in Singapore used to collapse without a reason, like the one that collapsed in 1983)

If you ask me, these Japanese are just sore and pissed that;

1. the Taiwanese get the manufacturing contract and not them

2. they themselves have no idea how to come up with such a design.

Seriously speaking, sometimes I really think these Japanese companies are a big joke. They love to kill their own talented workers by claiming that “they don’t fit in with the rest” (how do you expect geniuses to fit in with idiots?) and then they get red-eyed when Apple or non-Japanese companies beat them at introducing better design and technology.

Apple Singapore restricts intake of MacBook Airs

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According to a very dependable source, Apple Singapore is not allowing any of the local resellers to mass order the Air despite very high demand for the ultra-portable Mac notebook. According to Apple Singapore’s Channel Manager, they are only giving 2 to 3 machines to resellers who have expressed wishes to order more than 20 machines, without offering any official explanation for the shortage in delivery.

While it is highly possible that the MacBook Air is only found in limited quantities due to supply issues, Apple is not capitalizing fast enough on the impulse buying triggered by such a product. Many people whom I know who have placed orders for the MacBook Air are now canceling their orders simply because they are fed up with waiting, or they get dissuaded by family and friends simply because Apple allowed the long lag in time between the announcement and the actual product delivery.

I myself am contemplating canceling my own order for an Air.