Apple Posts

Oct122010

Posted By
Ryan

China Radio International app fail

I was randomly browsing the Apple App Store and came across “China Trip Planner“. The app is put out by the state-run China Radio International (CRI), one of China’s oldest media institutions.

By its own words, “It is widely acknowledged that the CRI English Service provides the world with one of the most efficient and convenient ways of learning about China.”

That they have taken their deep and intimate knowledge of China and are sharing it with would-be travellers is commendable. But, can anyone else see the problem with this picture?

Jun172010

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Posted By
Ryan

Photos surface of Shanghai’s new Apple Store to be

Entrance to Apple's Shanghai Store

With no official launch announcement yet, fevered reports are popping up across the Applesphere with new photos of the “cloaked in red, and guarded by ninjas” cylindrical glass tower entrance to Apple’s new underground retail megastore in Shanghai. Set to open mid-July, the red curtains are an auspicious signal to the large Apple lovin’ community in the city (and over here in Suzhou too).

The store will join Beijing’s Sanlitun Lu shop [image], which opened back around this time of year in 2008 … hmmm… Summer 2008/Beijing Olympics, Summer 2010/Shanghai Expo… maybe Guangzhou can expect their own shop sometime in November?

Jun022010

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Posted By
Ryan

Introducing the aPad – cheap shanzhai iPad hits Chinese marketplace

Dying for an iPad, but feeling a bit guilty that you’d be supporting a company that drives their employees to suicide? Maybe you just don’t have the better part of a grand to drop on a new toy? Whatever your reasoning, there’s a new shanzhai iPad to the rescue. A Japanese news report announced the other day that a company down in Shenzhen has brought China’s first iPad clone to the market — called, what else, the iPed (aka aPad).

Priced at around 1/5th the cost of its genuine Apple cousin, it’s surely going to raise more than a few iBrows around the offices in Cupertino. Making that price even sweeter is that it’s not even running some craptastic domestic Chinese OS — rather, it’s loaded with none other than Google’s iPhone-killing Android OS.

Feb162009

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Posted By
Steven

Apple vs. China Mobile: Battle for the iPhone

It’s the Irresistible Force meets the Immovable Object. Apple, the Californian electronics firm, and China Mobile, the state-owned telecommunications giant, have been locked in a slow, secretive, yet embittered year-long struggle to release and control Apple’s iPhone in mainland China. By “control” I refer to both revenue from user contracts/subscriptions, as well as to the [...]