iPod Fails To Dent South Korea
from the local-pride dept
It looks like South Korean manufacturers' plan to turn MP3 player sales into a patriotic issue is working: sales of the iPod are well behind those of local vendors. The iPod commands less than 2% of the MP3 player market there, with the top three vendors -- all Korean -- commanding nearly 60%. First the iPod's sort-of defeat in Japan, and now this -- apparently black turtlenecks don't have the same mind control properties there as in the West.
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Imagine if the US or Europe did that
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Re: Imagine if the US or Europe did that
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Re: Imagine if the US or Europe did that
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Well....
Korean manufacturers make mp3 products that don't restrict you, and koreans in general hate those kind of products. i don't think it's a nationalistic issue, i think it's just the steep price of the imported Ipods and the clunky software used for it. I could get an Iriver which has good explanations in my native korean with a lot more features and harddrive space, and they weren't brainwashed like all the people in the US with images of celebrities wearing ipods and using designer gucci cases for them.
My friggin 75 year old grandfather has a bad ass mp3 player with no stupid restrictions and with 2 gigs of flash memory. he doesn't need more memory but if he did, he would go and buy a HD player that has 20 gigs of space and is about twice as cheap.
It's simple economics, nothing to do with "nationalist" calls. people seem to like criticizing other countries without looking at their own.
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Clunky Software?
Anyway, South Korea SERIOUSLY needs to send more of their local consumer electronics to America. You guys are rocking out all kinds of kick ass mobile phones and gadgets and we get like, nearly bupkis because our stores only stock from the giants in the industry.
A plea to all South Korean electronics manufacturers: Ship to America! We WILL buy your stuff!
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Re: Clunky Software?
I totally agree about the cool gadgets. My phone looked like a dinosaur. My grandfather had a way smaller and sleeker phone than I did. A korean phone when the grandparent came to visit was the first color screen phone that I saw back in 2000 or so.
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Ipods suck
Line in, line out, scheduled radio recording, microphone, video support, backgrounds, pictures, e-books...
Ipod has NOTHING on that!
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Re: Ipods suck
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Ipods DONT suck
The New Ipod Now:
1. Has VIDEO compatability (movies, music videos, and home movies)
2. Has PHOTO compatability (can hold 25,000)
3. Has MUSIC compatability (more than 15,000)
4. Has hard drive and mass storage compatability
5. Has a 250,000 color screen (3.5" X 2.2")
6. An awsome sixty, COUNT EM', 60 Gigabite hard drive
7. Has Multiple features like, calander, sleep timer, alarm clock, hold switch, screen lock, song randomizer, games, click wheel, music quiz, audiobooks, podcasts, and many attatchments that could be added on (voice recorder, radio, ect.)
8. Can be hooked up to your car with car integration
9. Has an equalizer built in to it (to ensure sound quality)
10. Has 20 hours of battery life
11. Is one of the smallest portable music MP3 player that can hold more than 15,000 songs
12. Has a built in screen lock
13. Has a built in stopwatch
14. Iis very small and thin (2.4" X 4,1")
15. Has an optional remote dock
16. Has contacts and sceduals
17. Notes (you can write and read them)
18. Has loads of settings
19. Multiple language settings
20. Can hold, playlists, albums, and numerous folders of music
21. Can rate songs
22. And much, much more
AND your saying to me that, A STUPID LITTLE 569MB iRIVIER IS BETTER THAN A 60 GIG IPOD THAT ALSO PLAYS VIDEO AND PICTURES, YOU CALL THAT SUCKING!?!??!?!
The insane asylum's that way buddy-------------------->
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First, iriver does not manufacture "569MB" players... they never did! Plus, does the iPod have-
voice record features? (without the need to buy another product)
radio? (ditto above)
camera? (ditto above)
Hmm didn't think so.
When does a STOP WATCH come into use?
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