What’s the best study aid you can get for learning a language? Aside from the internet itself, I’ve found that the most useful single object in my Chinese study over the last 18 months has been an iPod touch.
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Despite a slow start, Apple's smartphone presence in China could grow to 5 million iPhone sales per year -- and could even double that if the company were to offer a lower cost prepaid model. A recent study found that introducing a lower-cost, prepaid device could increase iPhone sales by 100 percent, to as much as 10 million per year.
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In regard to Apple and Alipay discussing cooperation to overcome the inconvenience of Chinese paying App Store, the vice president of business planning of Alipay, Qiu Changheng, said today that Alipay was contacting Apple, but the specific details was undisclosed.
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No, this article won’t comment on the iPhone release in China nor give you tips about how to get an iPhone on the black market. However, it might help you to configure an imported iPhone so that it works on the Chinese network.
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Just for giggles, this is a recent rapidly spreading funny video on the Chinese Internet. On the subway line 13 in Beijing, a man was playing a “Bowling Game” (iBowl) on his iPhone. Looked like he was very into his game, and then…
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Last Thursday, 25 year-old Sun Danyong committed suicide after a fourth-generation iPhone prototype he was responsible for went missing. It’s a story, from what tech-industry friends in China tell me, of how Apple’s secretive ways send extreme pressure all the way down the company’s international supply chain.
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My thoughts on the (in)significance of Apple finally nearing the end of their lengthy journey to give the iPhone an "official" presence in China.
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Let's just admit it: the iPhone will never officially come to China. The problem now? Hanwang Technologies registered the i-phone trademark in 2004 - it became effective in 2006. Ah the cruel ironies of Chinese copyright law.
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Yesterday evening I flipped on the television and saw an infomercial for what I thought at first was an iPhone. A male and female host went through the different functions of the phone that looked identical to the iPhone, but when they flipped the phone over to the backside I noticed that the Apple logo looked slightly different from what I recalled.
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While the hi-tech world is swooning at Steve Jobs' feet after the dramatic unveiling of Apple's iPhone, your correspondent is cursing and swearing in front of his Mac keyboard, wishing that Apple's famous engineers and designers would turn their attention to some very real Mac problems that beset users in China.
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