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Zhang used to provide a modicum of nuanced analysis; now it's only bearish tripe. Perhaps I'm not only one who suspects Huawei has him in its payroll?
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Not sure what planet Apple Insider is living on, but reports by UnionPay on the day after Apple Pay's release in China noted that 38 million cards had been linked on the first day, 10 million in the first hour. I was in Beijing at the time and post…
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Apple Insider missed the best part of the Apple Pay in China launch: Union Pay officials told the local Chinese press that by 5 p.m. the first day (February 18), fully **38 million** cards had been registered, including some 10 million registered i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JoshA So true and the same happens in the UK, some outside of the UK sites can be blocked. Yes, for example I have a fully paid subscription to HBO Now. They are happy to take my money each month, but attempts i…
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For reference, many U.S. based media services are unavailable to me here in South Korea, even though I am an American with a U.S. Apple store account. I get the same irritating "not supported in your current region" error message. It that "censorshi…
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Anything Ming-Chi Kuo claims should be looked at with complete skepticism. Especially his predictions of 54 million iPhones sold last quarter on the eve of the earnings report likely played a major role in Wall Street's ability to portray the quart…
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Unlike Harvard and Yale, one can't buy entry into Seoul National U. Entrance is too jealously regarded. nht wrote: » And George W. Bush went to Yale and Harvard Business School...mmm....and Obama from Harvard law... Attended top end schools, ye…
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Lest it's unclear, my post above is a response to Flaneur.
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As usual, you are right on all counts. I have groan progressively crankier over the years reading completely misdirected commentary on Korea using the usual rhetorical ploy of lofty superiority. Not that my own posture as "the curmudgeon insider" …
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I appreciate DED's passion and integrity, but on this set of issues, he's badly out of his depth. It's a shallowly researched piece that takles a formidably challenging topic, which,to be fair, no journalist writing in English gets even in the rang…
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A somewhat subtle point about why the split will be beneficial to all shareholders concerned options and the unintended consequences of the way they are hedged and cleared: as the price of AAPL crept higher and higher, a greater per cent of the dai…
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Groan. . . Why should Apple Insider, of all sites, report IDC lowball estimates,as fact?! Are the editors really so desperate for clicks? Why trust any of the dodgy figures purveyed by analytic houses, when no mythology is revealed, no clients dis…
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The report is misleading. If the iPhone has a 19% marketshare in China, that likely represents a substantial *gain* from previous estimates of 3% in September and 12% in October by Counterpoint. Considering that the iPhone is very expensive for Ch…
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I'll never understand why Apple friendly sites such as AppleInsider accept so uncritically the estimates of analytic firms such as IDC who use proprietary methods for undisclosed clients, with no accountability or possibility of checking retrospect…
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Why in the world reprint this "analysis" with a straight face? Why could estimates from ABI be deemed trustworthy, any more than those from Strategy Analytics and IBC? What is their methodology? Who are their clients? What is the margin of error…
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I am shocked that AI bothered to reprint and treat as legitimate material from Yonhap News gathered by Strategy Analytics. As many readers, including me, will quickly recall, Strategy Analytics for years had seemec to be be functioning practically a…
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Not sure why we sure should believe *any* figures concerning their phones when Samsung refuses to release official numbers, as Apple did yesterday. Analysts are free to put out just about any staistics, with no legal consequences.
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In my opinion, anything put out by Reuters from East Asia, especially written by Miyoung Kim, should be treated with great caution, if no dismissed out of hand. Ms. Kim in the past has larded her articles with praise seemingly right out of the Sams…
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Hmmmm ..... In the past Reuters reports from East Asian locations seemed eerily to mirror Samsung's PR position. Maybe someone messed up and printed a story favorable to Apple? The original Chinese is still there and still is a strong denunciation,…
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Definitely something major in the offing, with political smoozing required. This is the coldest winter on China in decades, no known Foxconn fires to put out, and China Mobile 3G numbers languishing. I'd say a big announcement coming down the road,…