Apple to Launch Wi-Fi iPad in China on September 17th

[ImperialX]

how can they afford $500,000 apartment there? the number of people in China who have over 1 million dollars asset is almost twice as that in the US. (well, China has more population but still)

seem like some Americans are still dreaming

Absolutely. The number of people who can afford an iPad in China easily match the ones in the US.

China is only a third-World country because most people there are poor. But even the few rich people there still represent a huge market.

 

[MorphingDragon]

I agree, that's anti-Apple nonsense. OS X (or its descendants) will always be around just as Windows (or its descendants) will always be around in the sense that there will always be a need for a full-blow OS. While I believe that 80-90% of the population will be using iOS-type devices ten years from now, there will always be a professional tech class that will want the full OS, whether it's Linux or OS X or Windows.

Computing in a decade will be mostly tablets, because most people do not look under the hood and will like a device that just works. But some of us do look under the hood, and for us there will always be OS X. Or Linux for our friend Winni.

Microsoft are already working on replacing Windows. It was rumored ages ago as Midori and recently revealed itself as Singularity. Lets just hope it doesn't get pushed under the Windows rug like most promising Microsoft projects.

 

[Digitalclips]

It's not available in Scandinavia either. Most likely due to lack of Nordic keyboard layout, which won't arrive before iOS 4.2.

Keyboard layout and translations might be the reason for the late launch in China too.

Strange, I would have thought the key board was iPad's and iOS's very strength for fast development of many language versions, i.e. being virtual it is not such a big deal compared with hardware versions.

 

[Digitalclips]

Microsoft are already working on replacing Windows. It was rumored ages ago as Midori and recently revealed itself as Singularity. Lets just hope it doesn't get pushed under the Windows rug like most promising Microsoft projects.

Microsoft can relax and not even bother, Apple is replacing Windows for them

 

[MorphingDragon]

Microsoft can relax and not even bother, Apple is replacing Windows for them

If singularity becomes commercial it'll be the most powerful OS kernel so far available to the public.

 

[VicMacs]

You obviously don't know how rich Chinese people are.

last I read was there are 600,000 millionaires in China