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agoodmouse
Joined: 20 Dec 2007
Location: Anyang
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| Come on, now. How hard is it to form a message post without a swear word? |
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michaelambling
Joined: 31 Dec 2008
Location: Paradise
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 3:56 am Post subject: Re: Typical Korean Protectionism [mod edit] (iPhone) |
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| Live streaming TV? BFD. Who watches network TV in the US? When there is live streaming HBO, then maybe I'll care. Who needs WiBro? Who wants to pay for internet by the kilobyte? That's so 1998. With the iPhone, I can actually log onto the web and watch any damned thing I want. Like I really want to watch some sappy KBS drama on the subway, when I could watch a HiDef movie instead or watching streaming whatever from wherever. |
The point isn't what YOU want, the point is what the technology can do. Plus, there is a flat-fee wibro--I think it's 15k a month.
But, whatever, dude. |
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superacidjax
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:14 am Post subject: |
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Watching live, over the air TV on a cellphone! How cool. Almost like a portable TV set. Didn't Japan introduce those back in 1982? I think some even had color.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Watchman
When cable TV is streamed, then I'll be impressed. Combining o-t-a TV with a cellphone isn't any special engineering marvel. I hear some Korean cell phones actually make calls, although the concept of unlimited minutes is still 30 years away here, and only then after several years of riots and negotiations with the WTO.
My question is that if the iPhone sucks so tremendously, then what's Korea crying about? It's clearly inferior. It certainly won't sell. After all, it doesn't have Internet Explorer.. the World's Best Browser. |
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victorology
Joined: 10 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 5:31 am Post subject: |
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| My question is that if the iPhone sucks so tremendously, then what's Korea crying about? It's clearly inferior. It certainly won't sell. After all, it doesn't have Internet Explorer.. the World's Best Browser. |
I think people are confusing the Korean government and Korean corporations here. It's the carriers that don't want the iPhone. They don't want customers to browse the internet over wi-fi when they could browse the Web over 3G and charge ridiculous prices for it. |
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IlIlNine
Joined: 15 Jun 2005
Location: Gunpo, Gyonggi, SoKo
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 5:54 am Post subject: |
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Watching live, over the air TV on a cellphone! How cool. Almost like a portable TV set. Didn't Japan introduce those back in 1982? I think some even had color.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Watchman
When cable TV is streamed, then I'll be impressed. Combining o-t-a TV with a cellphone isn't any special engineering marvel. I hear some Korean cell phones actually make calls, although the concept of unlimited minutes is still 30 years away here, and only then after several years of riots and negotiations with the WTO.
My question is that if the iPhone sucks so tremendously, then what's Korea crying about? It's clearly inferior. It certainly won't sell. After all, it doesn't have Internet Explorer.. the World's Best Browser. |
You're not very bright, are you? Do you honestly think that DMB is the same technology as OTA Analogue broadcast (ie. rabbit ears)? It *is* actually streaming digital cable TV with no fuzz and perfect picture, all in a device several times smaller than those original Watchmans...
I mean, I pretty much agree that the iPhone should be released here, but at least let's keep things sensible! |
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4 months left
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 5:55 am Post subject: |
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| Personally i'm glad the iphone isn't here and hope it never comes. This way I don't have to see all the trendy "individualists" wandering around playing with their annoying yuppie toy. |
Yes because you never see individualistic Koreans walking around with their trendy Prada, DMB, etc. phones. By the way, being even more oblivious to others in their way, if that's even possible. |
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victorology
Joined: 10 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:05 am Post subject: |
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| Personally i'm glad the iphone isn't here and hope it never comes. This way I don't have to see all the trendy "individualists" wandering around playing with their annoying yuppie toy. |
Yes because you never see individualistic Koreans walking around with their trendy Prada, DMB, etc. phones. By the way, being even more oblivious to others in their way, if that's even possible. |
Speaking of the Prada phone, it's 1.8 million won. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:48 am Post subject: |
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Canada far exceeds Korea in standard of living.. that should be the real indicator.. how well the average person lives.
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IMO the living standards are comparable. The average person in both countries are living well. It it weren't, no way I'd be here. |
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DrOctagon
Joined: 11 Jun 2008
Location: Chicago
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:49 am Post subject: |
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Personally i'm glad the iphone isn't here and hope it never comes. This way I don't have to see all the trendy "individualists" wandering around playing with their annoying yuppie toy.
Hell let's kick apple out like they did wal-mart (another beautiful day in Korea) and make a big bonfire for the ipods too.
In conclusion: Apple sux |
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Trioxin_Failure
Joined: 24 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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Personally i'm glad the iphone isn't here and hope it never comes. This way I don't have to see all the trendy "individualists" wandering around playing with their annoying yuppie toy.
Hell let's kick apple out like they did wal-mart (another beautiful day in Korea) and make a big bonfire for the ipods too.
In conclusion: Apple sux |
"trendy" huh? Ok. Just like the original Apple (why would an individual ever need a personal computer?)
Annoying "yuppie toy?" ok. Whatever. What's wrong with being a "yuppie?"
I suppose you're all about granola and optional showers. Go hug a tree you communist.
Let's kick Samsung out of Korea too while we're at it. Sounds to me like you are one of those anti-corporate wanks that logs onto Dave's with your HP laptop while watching Office episodes stolen from bit torrent.
Stop being a hypocrite. The fact you're on a computer makes your arguments a little stupid. |
well somebody rode the short bus to school while listening to his Ipod.
For one my argument would only be hypocritical if I were writing this on an APPLE computer (notice how my post doesn't say Microsoft sux) which I am not. This is a windows PC, and I even think it runs on XP (work comp).
And Apple did make some personal computers, then made deals with the school systems of NY to force these pieces of garbage into our classrooms as the only option, basically creating a generation of kids raised on ass-backwards menu systems who had to relearn everything on an IBM compatible system later on. I had to write my high school term paper on one of those purple Imac pieces of garbage, which of course made any work outside of the classroom impossible, not to mention didn't help jack all in preparation for the real world where every damn report was written with microsoft word. So yeah, great job apple, you system was so efficient it took you 20 years to break down and make computers that could run on windows.
What's wrong with being a yuppie? Does that question even deserve an answer?
And for your information Before Korea I was strictly a gateway user (loved that whole design your own computer way before the idiots at Dell ever thought of it) Now I own a Fujitsu and a Samsung, I have never, nor plan to ever, watch an episode of "the office" and the only time I plan on eating granola is when its wrapped in dead animal. I'm not a hippy, hippies like Ipods.
Oh and I'm not anti corporation, just the ones with annoying agendas, wal-marts being the most annoying, which can be seen in the case with green day's new album.
Conclusion: Yup, Apple still sux |
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Trioxin_Failure
Joined: 24 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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| 4 months left wrote: |
| Trioxin_Failure wrote: |
| Personally i'm glad the iphone isn't here and hope it never comes. This way I don't have to see all the trendy "individualists" wandering around playing with their annoying yuppie toy. |
Yes because you never see individualistic Koreans walking around with their trendy Prada, DMB, etc. phones. By the way, being even more oblivious to others in their way, if that's even possible. |
two things here.
1. Prada phones are bought by the same people who buy Prada anything. Mostly rich girls, or rich guys buying it for their girlfriends.
2. Should have been more clear. I'm tired of all the WHITE people with the ipods. I'm fully aware Korea doesn't have an individualistic bone in it's entire pureblooded body and I accept that. It's the culture of anti-establishment white kids thinking Steve Jobs is the next bloody messiah that annoy me. And Emo, that sux too. |
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Goku
Joined: 10 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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The apple I phone clearly doesn't provide anything that the consumers of Korea need, besides being "apple" trendy.
And christ, like others mentioned, we don't want to see that crap...
Imagine starbucks with a horde of people with imac notebooks wearing only white and black and a whole bunch of other "cool cat" crap they're sporting, like a berret and an expresso in one hand in book of poetry in the other.  That look was suppose to die around 1995.
Now imagine they're all Korean. And Ajummas start doing it. Replace that visor for a berret and you have the same specices of evil but an entirely different breed.
Apple is a fad. There are Korean MP3 players, notebooks, and phones that all do the same thing an apple brand does. The only thing apple does is put in a complete package with nice clean look while making it slower and with less battery life.
Phones in Korea u can watch TV, browse the internet, call, take pictures, view pictures, play games, etc.
There is nothing vastly superior the IPhone can do, maybe it's a bit nicer and has a cooler GUI (LOOK IT ENLARGES WOOOO, actually I am impressed by this) but I mean, the damn thing has a ... what? 4 hour talk time battery life? |
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mayorgc
Joined: 19 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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Canada far exceeds Korea in standard of living.. that should be the real indicator.. how well the average person lives.
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IMO the living standards are comparable. The average person in both countries are living well. It it weren't, no way I'd be here. |
I've been thinking about it lately and I agree that they're comparable. But at the end of the day, I still don't think Canada and Korea are equal. Korea still has a little bit of catching up to do. |
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michaelambling
Joined: 31 Dec 2008
Location: Paradise
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Goku wrote: |
Now imagine they're all Korean. And Ajummas start doing it. Replace that visor for a berret and you have the same specices of evil but an entirely different breed. |
ROFLMFAO
I can just picture it--black visors with little rhinestones and "Happy Funtime Love" etched in shiny pink thread
I bought my first Apple--Mac Performa 400--in 1993. A fad? |
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michaelambling
Joined: 31 Dec 2008
Location: Paradise
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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| mayorgc wrote: |
| jvalmer wrote: |
| superacidjax wrote: |
Canada far exceeds Korea in standard of living.. that should be the real indicator.. how well the average person lives.
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IMO the living standards are comparable. The average person in both countries are living well. It it weren't, no way I'd be here. |
I've been thinking about it lately and I agree that they're comparable. But at the end of the day, I still don't think Canada and Korea are equal. Korea still has a little bit of catching up to do. |
For everyday life, sure. But I'd rather be a Canadian and get arrested, injured, unemployed, organize a political protest, than a Korean, who has to deal with corrupt police and government, a lack of social services, and a developing and unsanitary health system. |
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