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Shop iPhone at Apple Store Malaysia

xcool — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:38:51 +0000

UPDATE: Links are now gone from all the Apple Online Stores mentioned. I guess it will reappear very soon.

This just in from the myMUG forum, a local Mac Users Group which I frequent.

Building the pathway to an iPhone launch in Malaysia is the Online Apple Store. As of this moment, the Malaysian Online Apple Store currently has a “Shop iPhone” under the main navigation menu. The link is alive, but leads to a half-baked store page. Currently, only 8GB and 16GB models are presented. The details page also has a link to http://www.apple.com/my/iphone. Knowing Apple, that’s URL shall bring you to the official Malaysian Apple iPhone page! As of this moment, clicking that link redirects you to the US iPhone page instead.

I dug further and noticed that the “Shop iPhone” link appears across countries where the Online Store was recently launched: Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. All of them point to the same half-baked store page.

Don’t get your hopes up yet, as we still do not see Malaysia (as well as Indonesia, Thailand or Vietnam) under the list of countries where iPhones have been deployed.

But do stay tuned! Seeing that the store gets updated at this time of the year (its just 5 days till Christmas!), I believe Steve Jobs are getting his elves to help bring the iPhone to our shores at the very soonest possible!

Check out the pages via the links above. Enjoy the scenery while it lasts. I sure hope the person who maintains the code knows what he’d just unleashed (good news, of course).

Yay!

Malaysia Boleh!

xcool — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:18:23 +0000

That means, Malaysia Can!

Our fellow Malaysian developers have just made their presence felt in the iTunes Store with the release of Mistletoe Christmas. Jason Khong of Apptivity Lab claims the inaugural title for being the first Malaysian to have an app in the iTunes App Store.

Another developer, Adrian Lo of The Wabbit Studio currently has his app in the iTunes Store’s approval process, and should be listed soon.

Mistletoe Christmas features a mistletoe that swings around when you move your iPhone/iPod touch. And, during this Christmas season, the app is spread with some snowy cheer. The berries are ‘pluckable’ by simply tapping on them. They regenerate when you shake the device.

Adrian Lo’s app, titled Shizi is a unit converter that converts between Chinese and Hong Kong measurement units to Imperial and Metric units. The application supports converting between length, area, volume and mass.

If you are interested in starting your iPhone/iPod touch application development, do check out the MYCocoaHeads blog.

via myMacBUZZ

Official Apple Online Store, Now in Malaysia

xcool — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:08:15 +0000

Hello, Apple! What took you so long?

After years of using http://www.applemalaysia.com.my as their home page (with a Store button that links to nothing but a list of retailers), Apple finally opened its virtual doors to an official online store for the Malaysian market. The helpline even interacts in Bahasa Malaysia.

Eligible individuals, students, faculty or staff member of educational institutions may also purchase from the store for a discount. We tried that and noticed that prices of most products were discounted by about RM200.

Now, what’s so great about purchasing from the Online Store? For a start, you get to customise your Mac as well as engrave those iPods for Christmas. Also, you get to speak with Mac and iPod experts, which will also converse in the national language. Just call 1800-80-6419. And best of all, free shipping if your order exceeds RM250. No more getting yourself stuck in a traffic jam!

Apple is commemorating the store’s grand opening by giving away a free limited-edition Apple T-shirt for every Mac or iPod purchase by 24 November, 2008. If you have been eyeing that iPod touch for a loved one, wait no more. Engrave your lovely message for free and get it shipped right to their doorstep. You get the T-shirt as a bonus. Good? I say great!

Now go give them a visit! Bookmark http://store.apple.com/my.

One more thing, a colleague reminded me that the opening of the Online Store could be one step towards Apple selling the iPhone here locally in Malaysia. Yes, the iPhone (3G)! Let’s hope that this rumor turns out true just in time for Christmas. Yay!

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