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Apple was on the verge of collapse a bit over a decade ago. But the tide began to turn with the launch of the iPod and fate has been like an Apple fanboy ever since. Contrary to what people might have imagined back then, it owes most of its current success to the wildly popular iOS family of devices and not the Mac. But merely churning out “groundbreaking” iOS-toting products every few years will not help sustain the present rate of growth. Instead, the company will need to tap into emerging markets like China.
Lenovo chairman Liu Chuanzhi believes that China will eventually emerge as the most important market for vendors. He is glad that Apple is ignoring such an important market, letting his company go unchallenged there. “We are lucky that Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn’t care about China. If Apple were to spend the same effort on the Chinese consumer as we do, we would be in trouble,” Liu told the Financial Times during a rather “relaxed” dinner interview. That said, Liu was all praise for Steve Jobs, whom he called a genius and a “big pearl.”
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Trooper_One
July 06, 2010 at 12:37pm
I don't think Steve Jobs 'doesn't care about China' as Liu says.
He's got an army of economist, marketers, and business people who determined taht China is still relatively poor and the well to do will stick to a more well known brand in Asia such as Sony. The cheappies will buy knockoffs, which Apple will have no control over in that territory.
As such, China is a poor choice for Apple to develop a market in.
TechJunkie
July 06, 2010 at 3:47am
all praise for Steve Jobs because he is a genius and a "big dick."
RtDK
July 05, 2010 at 7:08pm
I doubt that any average citizen in China would want to dedicate a third of their entire year's salary to purchasing an Apple product anyway. Maybe that's why Jobs doesn't wanna go there--nobody would pony up the dough.
