“A subsidiary of Vietnam’s largest company FPT has opened the first store in the country specializing in distributing products of Apple Inc.,” Reuters reports.
“‘The shop selling only Apple products is one of the six we want to open this year in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City,’ a company spokeswoman said. The store is in Ho Chi Minh City,” Reuters reports.
FPT “has been authorized by the U.S. computer maker to sell Apple products such as desktop and laptop computers in Vietnam,” Reuters reports. “The company’s revenues last year soared 74 percent from 2005 to $324 million, or nearly a quarter of the total revenues posted by its parent firm.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Another Irish Dude” for the heads up and to “ken1w” for the headline suggestion.]
we had to bomb the pcs to save them.
About ten years ago, I was over in Saigon. At one point, I saw a van with a couple of Apple stickers on it. I asked my friend what was up–she said it was an “Apple” taxicab (ie, the name of the company was Apple Taxi and they were using the logo).
Vietnam is not known for it’s respect of intellectual property.
The second funny part of the trip was getting on the airplane back. This was August of 1997–the day after the keynote where Microsoft announced their $150 million dollar investment in Apple. Well, I sit down on the airplane and grab a copy of the Asian edition of the Wall Street Journal. Sure enough, the headline strongly implies that Microsoft bought Apple for $150 million.
Just about had a heart attack.
“Sure enough, the headline strongly implies that Microsoft bought Apple for $150 million.
Just about had a heart attack.”
LMAO. and now that Leopard is delayed, I wonder what the headline will say..
Leopard is cancelled because it’s made for iPhone-only?
Stories like this should reaffirm the faith most reading this have had for many, many years – that whatever Microsoft and others are doing/done here in USA, the Real Game is the rest of the Planet. Not sure, but think is something like 3+ Billion Globally who’ve yet to ever use a computer, much less own one.
Never forget folks: Apple (Steve Jobs) is not about selling Computers or iPods or iPhones or any other ‘thing’ – is about changing the World.
BC Kelly
Tallahassee Fla
I love the smell of iPhone in the morning.
More fun than shooting at each other, that’s for sure.
Anyone taking bets on an Apple Store in Baghdad come 2020?
Charlie don’t surf (the web)! Oh, it seems they actually do.
Good morning, Vietnam!
me so horny.
That’s Cambodia Captain. That’s classified.
Things are changing for the better since I was last there in the late 60’s!
Vietnam is doing well enough to have an Apple store? But didn’t we lose that war?
SHUT UP!
You nattering nabobs of negativism.
Viva, Da Nang. Oh, viva, Da Nang. Da Nang me, Da Nang me. Why don’t they get a rope and hang me?
When I read reports like this (and over the past decade or so, I’ve been reading more and more of them), it just makes me wonder what all those radical communist and/or socialist revolutionaries were fighting for?
What was the point?
And, it makes me wonder…in 20 to 30 years, where will radical, extremist Islam be?
I didnt know so many mac users were ignorant. Looks like all the riffraff is finally making its way over from the pc community. Remember the good ol days??
I heard Al Sharpton wants the Vietnamese to change the name to just ‘Chi Minh City’
And then go on his radio show and apologize….
Nappy-headed Ho Chi Minh City
leodavinci,
The answer to your query is, essentially in order to kick the French Colonials out, and then the American ones after that. French Colonialism and its feudalism are considered by many to be the strongest contributing factors toward a revolutionary sentiment in South-East Asia (Cochinchina, then French Indochina after that). The Americans came in at the tail end of a 240-year Vietnamese campaign to kick various foreigners out of their country.
Cool. Macs for all I say. And sort of related, when will the first official Apple Store open in Hong Kong? Can’t be far off now.
I went to the shop in HCMC today to buy MacBook 2.0 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo 13“- White but unfortunately it was out of stock and irony was- no one seems to know when it will be available in the shop again. A lady took my phone no. and assured to call me call me back in the evening to confirm the availability date but no calls.
I wonder! If opening a shop is good enough or we should think about customer satisfaction as well
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