Last Friday it was the mad chaotic hyped release of the iphone 4 here. Because of the population here in Perth, there weren't that many doing the camp out as compared to the other cities and countries. I reckon this is apple's way of selling their prod. Hype it up so much, bring in the minimal amount of products so you get people backlisting an order, then release the intended amount after a few weeks. Its extremely intelligent marketing, even better than Louis Vuitton or Chanel in terms of product awareness, advertising and very clever retailing.
I foresee the iphone as the phones of the future. More and more entities are creating, releasing or selling iphone applications. Oh and the number of iphones around is a tell tale sign. On the train last week, out of the 10 people surrounding me 6 were clutching an iphone. The rest were a blackberry, 2 nokias and a samsung.
I'm not iphone bashing, rather just musing over the global phenomena that Apple has cleverly created. Because see, I tried putting in an order for the next shipment and got rejected at 3 Telcos. All said they are not taking any orders as previous experience perchanced that when they did, people didn't show up for it. 1 guy told me to wait a month and thigns should g back to normal. Back to normal? Ahhh...So in the meantime, I am expected to check in on an almost daily basis for the next week or so till they come in, because they will still be sold at limited numbers and on a first come first serve basis.
I wonder if Singapore has this sort of bullsh1t. But I have much better things to do for the next few weeks and one of them so happens to be renewing my passport. The high comm here directed that I could renew my passport online, when I went to the website, it clearly stated there I couldn't if I was overseas. Rang the high comm, they said to ignore that phrase and nominate them as the receiver. I wonder if they had a B.A for this process, because its just not clean or professional to contradict a public tool. You'd think!
Oh and is it only me that thinks ipad is a very unfortunate name for the product? Why not itab/islate..anything other than something you'd put in between your legs once a month.
Ok enough yarning.... time to turn in
Monday, August 2, 2010
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Sg is as mad too, retailers are happier to take preorders tho, probably cos customers are unlikely to back out of an order. Even if they do, there'll be 10 walk ins for even extra iphone on the shelf.
I dun't quite understand the hype myself...iphones, ipad, havent' got me sold. However half my workplace's colleagues are carrying one.(iphone not pad yet)
Saw an article bout this guy suing apple for lack of warning about the ipad's potential for spontaneous combustion in direct sunlight. More on that if I come across more.
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