Apple (India) - Mac OS X Snow Leopard - The world’s most advanced OS
Grrrr.... (hope that sounded like a Snow Leopard expressing dissatisfaction!)... I am so disappointed that Indian users of Apple / Mac products have to wait for the OS X to become available. I understand that India is not yet a large enough market for PCs and software, and Apple may not have India anywhere on its priority, but if you are present in a market, then don't treat them differentially. Particularly if you have any plans to address that market... when it becomes large and attractive enough.
I can understand delayed launches in some markets when it comes to hardware products: there could be issues of production capacities and logistics of shipping them to various global markets. But software...?
The least Apple could have done was announced a date when Snow Leopard would be available in India, and put a price for the upgrade. I contacted Apple India call center twice during the last fortnight, and all they had to say was that they had no information and would let me know when they heard something. Come on, Apple should be able to do better than that!
I have friends and colleagues in the US, UK and elsewhere who can easily put the dmg on an FTP server for me to download, but... that's exactly what I don't want to do. For too long, India has been blamed for piracy of software and entertainment products; perhaps, the producers need to examine the role they are playing in driving Indians to piracy...
Update: I finally got my Snow Leopard Family Pack in London when I was there last week, obviously more expensive than what it might have cost in India, but, what the heck!
Grrrr.... (hope that sounded like a Snow Leopard expressing dissatisfaction!)... I am so disappointed that Indian users of Apple / Mac products have to wait for the OS X to become available. I understand that India is not yet a large enough market for PCs and software, and Apple may not have India anywhere on its priority, but if you are present in a market, then don't treat them differentially. Particularly if you have any plans to address that market... when it becomes large and attractive enough.
I can understand delayed launches in some markets when it comes to hardware products: there could be issues of production capacities and logistics of shipping them to various global markets. But software...?
The least Apple could have done was announced a date when Snow Leopard would be available in India, and put a price for the upgrade. I contacted Apple India call center twice during the last fortnight, and all they had to say was that they had no information and would let me know when they heard something. Come on, Apple should be able to do better than that!
I have friends and colleagues in the US, UK and elsewhere who can easily put the dmg on an FTP server for me to download, but... that's exactly what I don't want to do. For too long, India has been blamed for piracy of software and entertainment products; perhaps, the producers need to examine the role they are playing in driving Indians to piracy...
Update: I finally got my Snow Leopard Family Pack in London when I was there last week, obviously more expensive than what it might have cost in India, but, what the heck!
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