Actuality of Apple in Colombia

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

The portable ones of Apple are the mejorcito of the market.

Although in Colombia we usually “do not swallow point” with the surveys, we like knowing which are the tendencies in the opinion of the people to know if the candidate for whom we are going to vote is well valued or not; or in this case, if the portable computer that we are going to buy for Christmas justifies the expense that we are going to do.

In USA the company of investigation of Markets: SquareTrade has realized a study on satisfaction with portable computers and although it is obvious that every who speaks depending on his sad or happy experiences, is much orientador for those that they do not want to end "knocked down" for buying portable mistaken.

The study includes 30.000 buyers of portable (including the netbook) inside a frame of time of 3 years; time in which a portable one he is already considered to be “an old man“ and hence one presents that another infirmity.

MISTAKES, BAD FUNCTIONING AND ACCIDENTS.

Independently of the mark a portable one can see his useful life affected for the sum of diverse mistakes (Blue Line), malfuncionamiento of the hardware (Red Line) or accidents (Green Line) all this framed inside a space of 3 years from the moment of the buy of the portable one.

MALFUNCIONAMIENTO FOR MARKS.

(Explanatory note: The Mark Asus corresponds to a NetBook for which obviously his performance is not the same that a portable normal one and therefore is explained porqué it is the one that better him has gone).

In contrast to the first graph in which there were adding the technical flaws more the accidents and the bad manipulation of the people, in this second graph, there are observed only the problems of hardware or software that there presents a portable one (that is what it imports for any buyer).
The blue bars show how the portable ones behave after 2 years and the red bars show how they behave after 3 years.

If we observe carefully the marks that more fail they are those who curiously sell more portable bargain sales in Colombia. Anyone would think that it is a marks matter, but it is not like that since if we find out the majority they use the same components and materials, which shows up that this is the reason of the porqué they present more flaws. Simply for the quality of the materials of the hardware is there the reason of which they are portable economic.

CONCLUSION.

How one saw in the explanatory note Asus it does not tell because it corresponds to a Netbook, which leaves Toshiba, Sony and Apple as 3 marks that better they was, obviously also they presented mistakes but they were not so many people like the percentage that Acer, Gateway and HP present. to what does this owe?, again it is observed that it is for the quality of the materials, if in Colombia we complain that the portable ones of Apple are expensive it is because a present reality is not analyzed in the computers that sell here in the country and in the entire world; and the fact is that an Apple computer in spite of being expensive, lasts a lot of more time than an economic computer and not desactualiza so rapid, which in the long run is a money saving, because if we were analyzing all the silver a person would spend with a portable bargain sale in these 3 years in updates of hardware, cleanlinesses of virus and the repairs. in this time space it has spent the same that an Apple portable one costs.

As many people were saying to the beginning not “he eats story”, but if we observe impartially everything what shows this study we realize that the people do not choose a portable one of Apple for nice (because those of other marks also it are) not for fashion, but because he buys something that in fact is worth while.

Linkage: 1 of every 3 Laptops they fail in 3 years for: SquareTrade

Monday, March 15, 2010

Apple gives the last farewell to Tiger

Apple announces officially that it stops offering support to Tiger, the company already will offer more neither updates nor compatible software; this MAC OSX that was thrown in 2005 and that was serving as springboard for the arrival of the processors Intel to the world Maquero; it has marked an important epoch for Apple and to shown the record of being the most successful and long-lived operating system of the company.

This operating system is still used by many people in his Power Mac, Power Book, Macbook, Macbook Pro and Imac with processors Power PC. Which puts in a big quandary the proprietors of many Mac who have enough years of use since it touches actualizarsen Leopard or they buy a more recent Mac since the new advances that have developed in Snow Leopard do that they are unviable of applying in a processor PPC, which traditionally did not want to be left by Apple given the big number of computers that even work with these processors.

If you use Tiger, tell us how he makes use of it in his daily works, it does all that uses it, that has brought experiences to him.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

iShop it opens new shop in Bogota

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(Image Courteousness: TechPeople)

iShop it opened a new shop in the city of Bogota in the Shopping center Unicentro to offer to him more buy alternatives to all the maqueros of the capital.
The thematic areas of the shop are clearly distributed so that we could cover it with serviceability, being quite coherent with the corporate strategy and the esthetics that they applied to the shop of Big Station, posicionándose little by little in different strategic sectors of the city.

If he wants to go to know the shop and that promotions offer 1 goes to C.C Unicentro Local - 184

Linkage: iShop

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Saturday, March 13, 2010

The life gives you surprises, surprises it gives you Apple.


During the course of these days we have seen wonderingly as Apple is putting the letters on the table and is revealing little by little the surprises that it has reserved for 2010.

The company has announced an event for January 26 in which a new product Apple will be thrown, some say that it will be the new iPhone, others that it will be awaited Tablet. We can already do to ourselves an idea that this Apple “cooking something” so that his products are masificados at levels that it does greatly we believed unthinkable.

Will our Resellers Nacionales be prepared for what comes?, the answer is THEY HAVE, because if in 2009 we saw competition enough between them, 2010 promises to bring innovative products that will do that many people migrate towards the Apple and that better if this is stimulated by more promotions and attractive prices.

Hello iPad

Few minutes ago Apple has just proved to be his product most waited for many months, the iPad.
Basically the iPad might be summed up like a 10 inches iPhone but focused towards 2 specific markets as it can be that of the education due to the possibility of discharging, of reading and of sharing electronic books and of being able to use the application office computerization iWork. And for the market of the entertainment since there will be able to move the same games of App Store that is something that many players could not do comfortably for example in games like Need For Speed, The Sims, and Spore for the small screens of the iPhone and iPod Touch.

(Images Courteousness: engadget.com)
The iPad will come with a few services very similar to that of other mobile devices of Apple since it uses the same Operating system (iPhoneOS), which as it is obvious makes castrated the possibility of visualizing pages in Flash and the possibility of personalizing it; therefore probably as his small brothers also the iPad needs to be liberated by not legal methods like the JailBreak.

TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Processor Apple 1Ghz.
  • Screen 9.7 Inches, multitactile and anti fat.
  • Hard disk Flash of 16, 32 and 64 GB.
  • Acelerómetro, Compass and sensor of light ambience.
  • Entry for Simcard and Earphones, microphone and built-in speakers.
  • Battery with up to 10 hours of duration.
  • Connectivity Bluetooth, WiFi and 3G
  • Multiple accessories like cases, bases, casings and connectors for TV set and for cards SD

PRICES IN USA:

With the prices in which it will be sold from APPLECOL we imagine that in Colombia they will cost between 900.000 and 1.200.000 weight with the possibility of acquiring an information plan by means of Movistar and Comcel very similar to those of the iPhone. Nevertheless both companies will have to devise attractive plans, because in contrast to the iPhone, the iPad does not have permanence contract and this can cause that the people do not turn out to be already tied for so long contracts and simply be content with the connection WiFi.

From now on the Cellular Operators and our Resellers Colombianos will have to create good strategies to attract iPad buyers, because from May this portable device is going to turn into the most coveted and it it will be even more during the Christmas epoch of 2010 in Colombia and the rest of the world.

With the hands in the iPad

As it happens with the iPhone and the iPod Touch a thing is to see the functioning of these devices in the nice videos of the page of Apple and other one sees his real functioning, that's why the page TechCrunch.com quizo sharing the following video to see as the iPad behaves in the hands of a common user.

Linkage: Youtube