Apple to Soon Offer 3G iPad 2 in China, Retail Stores Expand to Hong Kong

[chocolaterabbit]

No it's extremely relevant. The Hong Kong SAR is more than just a label. Virtually everything is separate from mainland China; the economy, the political system, laws and regulations, government infrastructure, flag, etc. About the only thing they share is a national defense. You do have to go through border patrol to get between Hong Kong and mainland China.

What I meant was it didn't matter in the context of replying to the other guy who said HK is not part of China. I know it has completely different administration now, but that's only for another 35 years or so. what happens after 35 years? most likely the system will be removed and come under jurisdiction of Beijing.

 

[lOUDsCREAMEr]

What I meant was it didn't matter in the context of replying to the other guy who said HK is not part of China. I know it has completely different administration now, but that's only for another 35 years or so. what happens after 35 years? most likely the system will be removed and come under jurisdiction of Beijing.

Another option is the unthinkable.

Also, who knows if the Commies will still be in charge by then?

IMO, it's the standard of living that really matters. Don't care much about all those political BS.

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That linked plan is CDMA2000, not WCDMA. According to Telecom NZ, I can roam on Hong Kong CSL Ltd, Hutchinson Telecom, and Smartone, and apparently all three offer WCDMA (in addition to GSM).

I'd be very surprised if Hong Kong's "normal" networks are only GSM, as most GSM operators have added WCDMA alongside it in recent years as it's the most cost-effective way for them to provide 3G.

When essentially 100% of the population uses GSM, calling WCDMA/whatever CDMA a standard of Hong Kong is self-explanatory wrong.

 

[chocolaterabbit]

I'm sure a portion of the population finds it insulting to be called "Chinese" because of deep-rooted historic & the delicate political reasons can't be easily understood by outsiders. It's like calling Québécois a "British subject".

A more politically neutral term is "Hong Konger".

I think you're in the minority for this one. They might prefer prefer being called HKer, however I haven't heard of any HK people being insulted when they are called Chinese.
(side note: They are Chinese, so if they are ashamed of their heritage, they've got more issues than they think. And no, being Chinese has nothing to do with being Communist.)

 

[lOUDsCREAMEr]

I think you're in the minority for this one. They might prefer prefer being called HKer, however I haven't heard of any HK people being insulted when they are called Chinese.
(side note: They are Chinese, so if they are ashamed of their heritage, they've got more issues than they think. And no, being Chinese has nothing to do with being Communist.)

To your surprise, MAJORITY of the population don't call themselves "CHINESE" according to all those independent poll results conducted every year since the handover.

Only 23% of the population are pleased to be addressed as "CHINESE" according to the latest figure.

When asked to make a choice among 4 given identities, namely, "Hong Kong citizens", "Chinese Hong Kong citizens", "Chinese citizens" and "Hong Kong Chinese citizens", 44% of the respondents identified themselves as "Hong Kong citizens", 23% as "Chinese citizens ..."

http://hkupop.hku.hk/english/release/release839.html

The problem is not about heritage. Freedom is one of the keywords.

Calling "Singaporeans"/"Taiwanese" "CHINESE" will also result in similar troubles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Singaporean
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_China

 

[Nermal]

When essentially 100% of the population uses GSM, calling WCDMA/whatever CDMA a standard of Hong Kong is self-explanatory wrong.

Sorry, there's obviously a fundamental difference between the HK and NZ markets if people there are still using GSM despite having 3G available. It sounds like you have a much better grasp of the local market so I defer to your explanation

 

[lOUDsCREAMEr]

Sorry, there's obviously a fundamental difference between the HK and NZ markets if people there are still using GSM despite having 3G available. It sounds like you have a much better grasp of the local market so I defer to your explanation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_network_operators_of_the_Asia_Pacific_region#Hong_Kong

 

[sasapig]

Good news to HK~

I am from Hong Kong~
Really excited to visit the Biggest Apple Store in the world~
Hope apple will launch some promotions ~
I am going to buy a Macbook Air~
Ready to queue for overnight!~

btw,
can I use educational price in Apple store??

 

[lOUDsCREAMEr]

I am from Hong Kong~
Really excited to visit the Biggest Apple Store in the world~
Hope apple will launch some promotions ~
I am going to buy a Macbook Air~
Ready to queue for overnight!~

btw,
can I use educational price in Apple store??

You need student id at least I think...

 

[brdeveloper]

Oh God, arn, please, fix it! That's just unacceptable. Seriously.

"To really succeed, you have to blah-blah-blah" - there's no such verb "to really", there's a verb "to succeed" though.

"They are to soon offer blah-blah-blah" - again, "to soon"? Really? No, we're not talking about "too soon" here.

Looks pretty intelligible for a native portuguese speaker. English now is a universal language and - perhaps soon - the worldwide-spoken english will influence the idiom more than US-English itself. English syntax looks unnatural for some non-native speakers. Semantics also can be different in english when dealing with words derived from latin; however, knowing a little bit of etimology helps a lot as there is a lot of words derived from the same branch.
So It's a good practice doing a little effort to comprehend everyone at least in the internet.