Comments on: Mid-Week Links: iPhone 5c still too expensive, Sheryl Sandberg in Beijing, and baijiu (at Literary Death Match)

By: mike

mike — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 04:04:08 +0000

“And in fact, the Chinese should be lining up to throw eggs and rocks at the apple stores because of the horrid treatment of laborers ”

Can you imagine how horrific the Factories are where your $300 phone is made? Get real. This is China. Apple’s FoxConn factories have THE BIGGEST spotlight on them. XiaoMi’s factories must involve indentured servitude and 2RMB breakfasts.

By: mike

mike — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 04:02:11 +0000

“and in fact, the Chinese should be lining up to throw eggs and rocks at the apple stores because of the horrid treatment of laborers and highly overpriced goods. ”

Can you imagine how bad the XiaoMi factories must be? Get real. Where do you think they get those low prices from? Genius.

By: mike

mike — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 01:59:54 +0000

““Chinese netizens feel ‘cheated’ that the iPhone 5c is still expensive,” via SCMP”
Get an iPhone 4 in China (only) for 2500RMB.

iPhone5C is NOT a cheap phone. It’s brand new. Get a 4.

PS. Apple doesn’t give a shit about marketshare. Apple eats profit share, and lets the Android OEMs clean up the table scraps.

By: asdfg

asdfg — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 01:51:52 +0000

Agree entirely. Very happy with my Xiaomi 2. And in fact, the Chinese should be lining up to throw eggs and rocks at the apple stores because of the horrid treatment of laborers and highly overpriced goods. But that doesnt happen. They’re still lining up to get one, and sharing every bit of apple news on weibo and weixin. So yeah, why would apple change its ways?

By: Jess

Jess — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 16:54:58 +0000

The fisherman claimed that the shark was already dead when he netted it. And someone later bought the fish, which is probably not the best choice, because who wants a fish that wasn’t caught live? Unless they’re just going to taxidermy it up or something like that.

By: James

James — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 11:01:31 +0000

Here’s the problem with apple’s strategy. People here are generally not going to buy contract phones, and the contracts are generally not all that great anyways unless a company is paying for em.

The real problem though, is that the 5c is EXACTLY THE SAME as the 5, but plastic. A 5 can be updated to ios7, and a second hand 5 can be had for under 1500 RMB. So, you can either pay under 1500 for a nicer case, or you can pay over double that for a piece of plastic (that’s the same exact thing). The 5s is still a small screen, no real anything apart from a slight color change and a new cpu. That’s it. Get a xiaomi mi3 for 2000 and it wipes the floor with the 5s. Get a hongmi and for 800 new, it wipes the floor with the 5(c). Better specs, better price, better service, better support. Unlocked and open source. Apple is attempting to compete with its own second hand market and off to a really pathetic start. Only idiots will buy a 5c, and there’s really no difference with the 5s from the 5. It’s no longer exclusive in any way, it’s honestly not all that good, the jobs cult is dead and all it does is say “I spent more than I should have on something not all that good”.

By: Amanda R.

Amanda R. — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 10:06:20 +0000

That is a whale shark, the largest species of shark alive today. It is a vulnerable species, the hunting of which is banned in many places like the Philippines, India, and Taiwan. China is, as usual, slow on the uptake that they should not be hunted.