Erroneous Report on Wired Mag

[Dropzone]

See story here.


excerpts here:

BEIJING -- Yan Feng, president of the Beijing Macintosh User Group, was just 9 when he first laid eyes on the now positively prehistoric Mac Classic. It was love at first sight.

"What was not to love about it?" asked Feng with a raised eyebrow. "It was user-friendly. It looked cooler than anything else around at the time, and with its HyperCard scripting program, I could basically do anything I liked."

So it was perhaps inevitable that the smitten young Chinese would eventually found the biggest Mac user group in the world's most populous nation.

Feng is head of the Beijing Macintosh User Group, which boasts 400 registered members of 14 different nationalities, including Japan, South Korea, the United States and several European countries. ..more

Emphasis underlined. Well, Philmug has 700+ members.

What do you think guys?:dry:

[rbpops]

400 lang for a populous nation like china?

[Arel]

To update the info, Yan Feng is now known as David Feng.

Been visiting their site.


[Edited on 9-14-2004 by Arel]

[gobo]

Originally posted by rbpops
400 lang for a populous nation like china?

Mahal ang mac.

[Maverick]

Originally posted by gobo

Originally posted by rbpops
400 lang for a populous nation like china?

Mahal ang mac.

I'd have to agree. The cost of a Mac would be a huge chunk of a persons salary in a year.

[jasondv]

"... the biggest Mac user group in the world's most populous nation."

You could also take the above quotation to mean that his MUG is the biggest in China, not necessarily the biggest per se.

[katsch]

went to China twice: first as lighting designer for a ballet philippines performance tour in '83 and a second time as a guest of their government for cultural exchanges in my field in '93. that interval produced a sudden increase in michael jackson wannabes wearing 'shades' in public parks. the wonderful sight of a 'heavy traffic' of bicycles was being replaced by stinking motor cars mostly japanese.

the interpreter's very low salary compared to wherever, i think, should be taken in light of the unbelievably low cost of food, transport fare (if you want to smell 'axe' fresh you cannot be pedaling your own bicycle), essential clothes (hindi pormang fashionista), and cost-less health care and education.

my general impression was the same amount of money buys ten times more over there than here, a so-called free enterprise country. am of course just talking about several interpreters i had close contact with during my visits. have no right to say that the situation is the same all over.

so as not to be totally OT, i would presume that it may just be a question of time before they have Mac clones. even then they were showing me clones of stage lighting equipment which did not quite fare so badly considering the much lower price.

of course my facts are dated. and the only permanent thing is change.

[Edited on 14-9-04 by katsch]