“Russia’s second-biggest mobile phone operator, Megafon, said it would buy at least 750,000 iPhones from Apple Inc over the next three years for resale through its retail network,” Maria Kiselyova reports for Reuters.
“Megafon signed an agreement with Apple’s Russian subsidiary in January, returning to a direct partnership with the U.S. company after a break of several years, but did not disclose the contract terms at the time,” Kiselyova reports. “Apart from guaranteeing purchases, the Russian company also committed to spending around 1 billion rubles ($28 million) on marketing, advertising and promotion of Apple smartphones over the three-year period to the end of 2016, it said in a 2013 financial report released on Wednesday.”
Kiselyova reports, “Sergei Libin, an analyst at Raiffeisen Research, said the volumes agreed by Megafon and Apple were reasonable. ‘Based on MTS’ estimates, in the fourth quarter alone around 650,000 iPhones were sold in Russia. If the smartphones sales’ dynamics and iPhone’s share of this market do not change dramatically, around 8 million iPhones could be sold in Russia during the next three years, and Megafon’s share will be just over 9 percent…'”
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das vadanya, Androidskies.
Actually, it is do svidanya (до свидания), meaning “Good bye”. Literally translated, “till we see each other again”.
I’m well aware of that, comrade…in it’s popular usage, it simply means “goodbye” in modern Russian.
I must have completely missed the joke (I haven’t ever seen it spelt das vadanya…).
There is no joke, as an English speaker I would use the English transliteration. It was good enough for Boris Pasternak, so it’s good enough for me.
Nice. Very nice.
It’s “до свидания андроидский” but I personally like “Asta la Vista” by Arnold Swartzneger.
Kpyto!
…wonder if Vlad The Impaler will sport an iPhone..he could take higher resolution shirtless selfies!
Off topic, but a character named Mikhail Tal posted here the other day. Ring a bell? Like 1960?
oh yeah. The true Tal’s health was bad, otherwise he might have been legendary.
Putin does not use mobile phones. He is too cool for that. ;)))))
don’t those photos crack you up? they’re hilarious, like something Sean would do.
Yes, those photos are super-goofy. You only need a photo of Putin wrestling a bear. But Putin could not do it, because he is tiny man.
Sarah Palin could do it.
He is Russian Chuck Norris!!!
As to “The Impaler” complement, for now:
1) number of victims from illegal international aggressions by Putin: 0 (zero, zilch, nada);
2) number of victims from illegal international aggressions by Obama: over 2000, including hundreds of children (drone strikes).
Of course, Putin is authoritarian and huge corrupter, and he is cynical politician who uses conservatism to stay in power and abuse civil liberties, but in international deals, he is much less an impaler than some Western “democracies”.
very true, it was not my intent to mean otherwise. I was just applying Vlad Tepes’s nickname for fun.
Putin has another nickname — “rat”. But is less fun, just a childish assault. “The Impaler” is funny; agree.
1963 – “I have a dream.” Martin Luther King jr
2013 – “I have a drone.” Barack Obama
Whoa! 750,000 in three years! Look out market share, here we come! Hope the supply chain holds up.