Re: Greetings, and a few questions
Re: Greetings, and a few questions
- Subject: Re: Greetings, and a few questions
- From: Amaya Gergoff <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 15:29:29 -0400
Hi Yan,
Now I feel I'm not the last person in the line :)
I work as regional liaison for central and south America, and as you
can figure it out, we have quite the same problem, the only thing that
is different here, is that we still have the chance to go completely
crazy and spend all our half or full month income on a .mac or update
with out restriction, just have to find the retail store or the way to
ship it to us.
Do you have any Apple retail store or dealer that could work this out
for you?
I also hear that Apple is looking for change things there since there a
great potential in your country, is that true, maybe you will be lucky
and Apple will open a formal office there, if isn't yet, at least China
can have more Mac users than the rest of the world together ;)
Welcome to the list
Amaya Gergoff
CaracasMUG president
Apple RLT for Central & South America
On Sunday, September 22, 2002, at 10:34 AM, Yan Feng wrote:
Well, the folks over here in Beijing knew about the .Mac thing pretty
much right after the Steve announced it on 17 July. Of course most
were just foaming at the mouth, wondering how they'd pay this stuff.
(USD 50 = CNY 400, which is a lot of cash - I get paid that much as an
English teacher weekly, some unemployed folks live on this for half a
month.)
Also, the bad news is that the Chinese legal tender - the Chinese
Renminbi Yuen - is not freely floatable on the world markets, which
means that you can't directly exchange Yuens for dollars. This puts a
lot of free mac.com addresses at risk.
I'm familiar with the situation here in China. Those fortunate to be
ex-pats (like yours truly) and those fortunate to earn cash in
USD/for. currency (very few, but increasing in number), get a for.
currency card (I got mine outside of China), which is all that's
needed for .Mac. The rest don't, get unlucky, and lose their .Mac
accounts. I know this situation because it may be happening to one
BeiMac member and of course he's raving mad he'll lose his mac.com
account.
As far as I know, there is no individual saleable .Mac package in
China, unlike in the US (so I've heard maybe.)
Best,
Yan Feng
President - BeiMac
Beijing Macintosh User Group
http://www.beimac.com/
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