There yet exists an Apple Store in Korea. There are, however, overpriced knock-off Apple Stores that sell all of Apple's products (even includes a faux Genius Bar and matching shirts), yet still is not referred to as an Apple Store. Ah, Apple has quite the love-hate relationship with Korea. Only recently has the use of an Apple computer come into fashion in Korea, and yet the country is nearly entirely based on a PC world, meaning all the networks, wi-fi connections, and Internet are based on both Internet Explorer (that god-awful, sorry excuse for a browser) and Flash (may God have mercy on Korea's soul). It was really the iPod that started the ball rolling in Korea, and now especially with the iPhone have Koreans become more aware of the existence of something that is not PC compatible. If you ask me, it's about damn time, but it is still a facade, because most Koreans I encounter still don't know how to use a Mac, even though they are infinitely easier to use than a PC. Guys and dolls, I blame this problem on society.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Day 78: Catch Fido!
There yet exists an Apple Store in Korea. There are, however, overpriced knock-off Apple Stores that sell all of Apple's products (even includes a faux Genius Bar and matching shirts), yet still is not referred to as an Apple Store. Ah, Apple has quite the love-hate relationship with Korea. Only recently has the use of an Apple computer come into fashion in Korea, and yet the country is nearly entirely based on a PC world, meaning all the networks, wi-fi connections, and Internet are based on both Internet Explorer (that god-awful, sorry excuse for a browser) and Flash (may God have mercy on Korea's soul). It was really the iPod that started the ball rolling in Korea, and now especially with the iPhone have Koreans become more aware of the existence of something that is not PC compatible. If you ask me, it's about damn time, but it is still a facade, because most Koreans I encounter still don't know how to use a Mac, even though they are infinitely easier to use than a PC. Guys and dolls, I blame this problem on society.
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I was with apple from the beginning (I grew up with an apple II.) My family finally upgraded to a mac in highschool. All my friends had Win 3 systems.
ReplyDeleteIn college I had a Mac and people were like.. hey wow, is that windows for Mac?
I stayed with the Mac I got at the beginning of college, but I kept getting pissed that everything cool that I wanted to download wouldn't work because windows machines were industry standard. I'd have to search for "game boy emulator - macintosh". One of my favorite happenings was when I came across a friend who asked me for help, because I was the official mac guy, and he needed to download a browser onto his computer because he didn't have one for some reason. It's impossible to download a browser without a browser (or at least it's not an obvious operation) so the campus gave him a CD with the browser on it, only it required stuffit expander. since he didn't have stuffit expander either (I don't know why), he called the campus again, and they told him to download it. After I got on the phone and explained the problem they sent over a cd with stuffit expander.
He needed stuffit expander to expand stuffit expander.
I of course solved the problem by downloading it onto my computer and using a 3.5 floppy to give it to him. Problem solved.
Anyway I stopped using macs after college, shortly after system 10 came out. It now sounds like they are beyond awesome.