Is Apple dumb? My answer will be YES.
Although there are lots positive points for Apple as well, according to Fortune.
Fortune has released its annual ranking of the world’s most admired companies and Apple has topped the list for the second year in a row.
The accolade was given to Apple mainly due to the fact that the company was able to push through the economic downturn with good sales figures while the rest of the industry struggled. They also lost their all-important man in charge, Steve Jobs, to an ongoing illness. It’s no wonder Apple topped the list this year.
Apple ranked first in a few other industry categories including innovation, people management and quality of products and services. They didn’t, however, take first in the most admired computer category. Xerox received that honor. Don’t ask.
The only other two tech companies in the top ten were Google at number four and Microsoft at number ten.
Way to strive for excellence Apple. Next year we will be watching the list anxiously in hope of a three-peat.
I have a few points here to support my statement:
1. Apple’s Iphone is not available in Malaysia.
- We have lots Iphone fans in Malaysia as you can see from the net, especially Lowyat.net where people are trying all their means to get Iphone 3G to Malaysia.
- Some people even travel to New Zealand just to buy an Iphone 3G which is unlocked out of the box! Yeah, it’s not cerita dongeng again but it’s fact.. read it in Lowyat.
- Although we can get Iphone 3G from our neighbours, especially Singapore at a price of RM2400 for 8gb and RM2800 for 16gb, the process is not as easy as you think.. WHY? Because of the warranty stuff my dear..
- You can see some people like me who do not like buying things through internet are praying iphone to come to Malaysia!
2. Apple has so many restrictions to apps developer.
- From this news,
Jay Freeman, the developer behind Cydia, has announced that he plans to launch a new application store for the iPhone called Cydia Store.
Cydia is a means for developers to distribute applications for the iPhone, specifically applications created for jailbroken iPhones, that wouldn’t normally be allowed at Apple’s App Store. Many developers with applications that have been rejected because of Apple’s stringent iPhone SDK turn to Cydia.Freeman’s store will allow any application to be distributed at a small fee. Freeman has said that the sales commission collected will be on par with Apple’s or even less.
According to the Wall Street Journal article, Freeman has already hired a lawyer just in case Apple isn’t too pleased with his new idea:
“The overworking goal is to provide choice,” he says. “It’s understandable that [Apple] wants to control things, but it has been very limiting for developers and users.”
This just may be the nudge that Apple needed to start legally going after the jailbreak community.
- Apple has so many restrictions which made all the apps developers mad and go for Cydia.. IF Apple is more open minded, they can earn more instead of spending unnecessary money for court cases over jailbreaking iphone.. coz Apple is applying jailbreaking iphone is illegal.
- Iphone does not have those important features which can be obtained through jailbroken iphone, so who does not which to jailbreak?
3. Iphone buyers must sign contract with telco.
- I think this is the worst thing of all.. All iphone has to be obtained by signing contract with telco except in some of the countries like New Zealand, Hong Kong etc..
- Come on man, when Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 7 and Palm Pre are out, then you know the consequences!
IF Apple is not restricting apps in Apple store and selling them without contract, i’m very sure their sales will be much much better than now! Oh ya, sell them in Malaysia too!!
that dumb eye-candy-kind-of-thing surely not cheap tho
First of all, every company wants to maximise profits and the reason why Apple wants a telco is that they will be able to take a huge chunk out of the sales from the telco and it’s safer that way especially if the market is not big enough. And as you know Malaysia does not have a policy of selling phones with bundles of texts and minutes just yet, negotiations are bound to proceed on cautious grounds, assuming there are even negotiations to begin with. It’s simple cost-benefit analysis. What works in other countries may not necessarily work in our country, like our government likes to say
Sure a lot of people in lowyat have been expressing their interest in the iPhone, but how many of them will actually have the ability to afford it? What Apple is looking for are markets that have the potential to sell million of units, doubtful that’s going to happen in Malaysia especially if the telco deal doesn’t work out and they have to sell it in retail stores, where the price of an unlock model is bound to be in the range of RM 3k at least (some actually say it will be RM4k because of the taxes). That is already the price of a basic laptop, how many people are willing to invest that much in a phone?
I think Apple is being wise actually to be honest, since there are still a lot of uncertainties in the market and it would be prudent to hold their grounds first.
agreed~ i think i just have to wait N97 or Palm Pre.
For example if i want to get an iphone, so where can i get it from? not in m’sia and i dont trust too much on online trading.. so where can i get one? even the shop is selling, they are selling their units from signing with telco or get from overseas as well.. sure way more expensive.. right?
and HTC’s PDA phones are not cheap as well.. 2.5k-3k.. almost same la d price.. hehe..
they have tested the market for iphone 2G and they should have introduce iphone 3G to M’sia or maybe near in the future?
Hong Kong, New Zealand and some countries are selling unlocked iphone 3G in the shop, why not malaysia? not Malaysia Boleh meh?
dont they scare their rival will come out with software similar to iphone such as in palm Pre and microsoft windows 7? then ppl can have a choice to choose and buy the phones that are available in the market with ease..
lol just because you want an iPhone doesn’t mean that they have to come in la. Like I said the market is not big enough. Bringing in a new model is very troublesome, you need to go through contracts la, government also need to tax la, then need administration charges etc…it’s all very time-consuming and costly you know! Will the potential profits they get be able to cover all these costs? Even if there is going to be profit, are they going to be huge enough? Unless they are sure it’d be worthwhile for them to go through all these procedures, they won’t enter the market.
By the way what shop? You mean in the official Apple retail shops? If they sell it in their official shop then there is no need to sign with telco la bang. If you are talking about normal phone shops, there is no way Apple is going to sell the iPhones in the normal phone kedais, they are too dodgy for them and Apple all want their models to be sold from reputable dealers with an extensive contractual system, small kedais don’t have the capacity to do that to be honest.
Haha I’d not be surprised if the iPhone is going to cost RM1000 more than that at the very least. An unlock iPhone 3G 16GB costs around GBP750 in the UK, 8GB is around GBP620, how much will that cost in Malaysia leh? Not everyone is as rich as you doctors le hehehe…
Haha Malaysia tak boleh in technology stuff XD
Haha competitors want to play come play lo. iPhone is like THE phone out there right now, hard to see how any phone out there can rival it. Even in the UK where we have tons of mobile phones which are not sold in Malaysia offering similar functions as the iPhone, they all still fail to topple it. Like the Blackberry Storm, which is the closest you can get to the iPhone still got screwed pretty badly here. People are brand conscious, they all want the iPhone as it’s more consumer focused than those complicated Palm or Blackberry models which are more business oriented.
At the end of the day, I don’t think the iPhone will be sold in Malaysia, unless they can get a telco. Besides, although it pains me to say this, they don’t really need our market to be more established or more profitable…we’re pretty much relatively insignificant to them.
not retail shop la..if retail shop then i wont post this topic liao.. hehe.. those handphone shop.. i saw one in kuching.. i asked d guy how much.. u know what he said? RM3800.. haha.. KNS, 3800 can buy laptop liao my dear! then i ask which country? he said Hong Kong.. no wonder la.. take MAS d wo.. maybe take Air Asia cheaper? LOL
yeah, i know not easy to deal with malaysia telco coz our country telco is diff from overseas.. anyway, u can get unlocked iphone in UK cheaper than RM2800 after converting to RM? RM2800 is price in Lowyat, means have to buy from online members but COD la.. SG set.. if spoiled, need to go back to the seller for warranty.. but my dad hates internet trading.. even though COD with those unknown people from lowyat.. so i do not have a choice
haha of course la, 3800 is what i expect as well hehe. is that the 8GB or 16GB model? Don’t think it can be cheaper than RM2800 leh, like i said unlocked 8GB = GBP620 (roughly RM3400), 16GB = GBP750(roughly RM4100). THey are sold by authorised dealers la, so all are legitimate units. How come SIngapore so cheap one? RM2800 does that come with the SingTel contract or are those the sim free unlocked units?
im a big fan of HTC products, i think my Touch HD kicks the iphones ass big time lol. But in malaysia it costs a bomb, around 3k. I got it free over here with a one year contract. interestingly enough, even if i add up the cost of my entire years contract, which includes 400mins, 80 sms per month, its still cheaper than buying the phone :O
RM2800 is other ppl sign contract then sell the phone to u.. with Singtel receipt.. but warranty with the seller la..so any prob must find back seller.. it’s unlocked out of the box..
HTC Toich HD is cool too!! but at 3.2k per unit, not many can own it
Hope you get an iPhone soon. They’re awesome. Easy to use and lots of great apps for fun. : :rclxm9:
damn kumar which carrier is that? O2? Although I must say 400 mins and 80 texts is actually quite little, if it’s the reverse it would be great!
I want to buy a Zune, where can I find one in Malaysia?
Ah Zune, why want to buy Zune? take ipod instead
its call exclusivity
no more exclusive la, Stone Age Bolehland now got as well…
no…windows mobile suck all the time
nobody can beat iphone3g at this moment……….
25000 application and counting? cant mms? who said? i mms all d time via my iphone..
i no need psp, iphone have many superb superb great games……
performance? better than windows mobile lar…lags? never found lags for 1 year ady? touch? iphone is truly multi touch…other? software based…tats y lags even gv windows mobile powerful cpu..damn it
i’m 24….owned a lot of gadget but only iphone make me feel no regret at all owning it…….
thanks..
i think u must have jailbroken ur iphone :happy:
anyway, with the iphone 3.0 OS iphone will be better
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Happy you.
incredible, comes to show that apple really is the best!!!!!
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