{"id":1118,"date":"2008-10-28T06:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2008-10-28T06:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T11:31:00","slug":"on-the-requirements-of-an-apple-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/28\/on-the-requirements-of-an-apple-store","title":{"rendered":"On the requirements of an Apple store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I once wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/07\/15\/a-plea-to-apple\">plea to Apple<\/a> about giving Malaysians access to the iTunes music store as well as selling the iPhone&#8217;s in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>I stepped into one of the Apple Premium Authorised Resellers the other day, and spoke to someone who seemed knowledgeable about these things. I mean, I purchased my MacBook Air in Machines. I purchased an external DVD drive for it from the EpiCentre store, more recently.<\/p>\n<p>The shocker? <b>RM5 million in sales, sustained, for at least three months, before Apple would consider even opening an official Apple store in Malaysia.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Is this hard to reach? I find it hard to believe that this isn&#8217;t already reached. I take buying Mac hardware for granted. My latest iPod purchase however wasn&#8217;t in the market &#8211; I ordered it from the Singapore online store (I wanted it engraved).<\/p>\n<p>If I want it engraved, I can only imagine that a lot more Malaysians want it too. Of course, I also imagined Malaysians spending more than RM5 million on Apple hardware per month. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone know if this is an Apple requirement?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once wrote a plea to Apple about giving Malaysians access to the iTunes music store as well as selling the iPhone&#8217;s in Malaysia. I stepped into one of the Apple Premium Authorised Resellers the other day, and spoke to someone who seemed knowledgeable about these things. I mean, I purchased my MacBook Air in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[147,544,1776,137],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-apple","tag-apple-store","tag-business","tag-malaysia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-i2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}