Celebrating 100 hits & an iPhone
“Hey! All you rocking people, mid-night party loving people, and jazz-ing guys out there…….”
This is one of the typical ways “Sudershan” (Sud as he likes himself to be called) of Radio Mirchi greets his listeners on his show “Hassi ke Phuare”. Anyways I really like him so I thought of mentioning him. I also happen to celebrate a hundred hits to my blog. I know its a small number but You will know the value of a hundred hits only when you you’re a beginner.
As Ish said I need to comment people on their blog so that they too visit my site in return. I tried to do this but I didn’t know what to comment. My long lived laziness too needs a special mention here, but Hey! I’m not the only one to blame, for a part of the blame goes to my state government and parents too. This is because one orders no electricity during the day and the other orders no computer during the night(i hope you understand), but heh! gimme one or two days, i’ll surely do comment.So BACHENA AE BLOGGERS LO MEIN AA GAYA.
I also visited the newly opened iStore for the second time today, because the first time visit was a too crowded and short. Anyways the store is a part of chain of stores formed Reliance Digital with collaboration with Apple Inc. It was basically a apple store under a new name and not entirely owned by Apple.BTW the store was quite impressive. It had a complete range of iPods (ie. from shuffle to the touch), iMacs, Macbooks, apple tv, and accessories for all of these. It had training modules for PC-to-mac switchers too. So all you Apple fans in India, owning a mac nowadays is not that hard (Except for the price part).Going inside the “iStore” was fun but listening to other customers inside was funny.9 out of 10 customers walked into the store, had the following conversation with a employee inside and walked out
Customer – Do you sell the iPhone ?
Employee - No Sir, it is not launched in India yet.
Customer – You know when will it be launched ?
Employee – No Sir, not yet.
Customer -You know what price will it sell for ?
Employee – No Sir, not yet.
So while mentioning Apple i should also mention my first encounter with an iPhone today. I had touched an iPhone before twice but both times it was seriously just “touching”. Today I Used the iPhone for almost 15-20 minutes.No it was not at the iStore but it belonged to one of my dad’s friend who went with us to the mall. I saw him talking on the iPhone and told my dad(who all ready know my over-fascination for the iPhone)about it.He asked his friend if I could see it and he handed over the phone to me.Using it was a dream come true for me, after all I had my walls of my room covered with pictures/news articles about it, argued with anyone who criticized it and checked the news on the terms “iphone India” and “iphone” everyday on Google news. So it was a nice and beautiful using it.I checked the photos first.Zooming in …. zooming out,scrolling the contacts, the songs in iPod,Flipping away photos it all was pure fun.I wanted to see the safari browser but too bad they didn’t had wi-fi at the mall.But still nice experience using it.
OK I know I’m not a celeb yet but still I would like to write out a few quick updates/news about me as I can’t write a full paragraph on them
- I passed my Cpt ( Chartered accountancy enterence test) with 129 marks out of 200 (not bad at all regarding the fact only 15-16 % of the candidates passed ie. got 100 marks).So I’m in a delimma wheather to continue do my b.com or start doing C.A. which has got a better scope for future but is tougher than b.com.
- Listened all the tracks of “Bachena Ae Hassino”.Only licked the title one – bachena eh hassino
- Going to see “Kismat Konnection” tomorrow (yey!)
- I really like the MTV ticker
- Update – WordPress’s spell checker is really helpful, cause I got really poor spellings
So keep reading and keep commenting,
Love ya,
Tush
July 21, 2008 at 1:06 am
wow
July 23, 2008 at 11:03 pm
A 100 hits already? Congratulations! It took me much longer than this. And somebody does have an iPhone obsession in here. I would’ve argued with you over the problems with the iPhone but forget it. I still haven’t visited the iStore. I should get out of my laziness soon enough.
That conversation, yes. I’ll tell you one thing which is fact. Most people who buy Apple products down here in India don’t have any clue about them. Unfortunately, they do have the money and that’s just about what is required. Apple is more of a status symbol for these people but if you look at it really, Apple should be popular for it’s ease of use, it’s cleanliness and the general make and features. That is Apple’s USP and people don’t have any clue about that here. So well, such conversations will only just increase. I think Apple should slash prices a little. It is value for money already but it’s too expensive. Maybe they should lower configurations a little but still offer them at a slightly lesser price. That’s what I believe. That and a little bit more of 3rd party freedom could do wonders for Apple.
July 25, 2008 at 11:33 am
@ Ish – Tnx. yeah I am a iPhone Obsessed but still I like being one since you cant find genuine ones here.You can always find ones who are iPhone obsessed just to be one.You know what, I went to a store which sold the original (First gen) iPhone.I asked him about the new one you won’t believe he said, “Sir, the new one is totally useless.It is just a stripped down version of the original. It has got half the features of the original one.It just looks like the original one.and moreover ………IT IS 3 GB!!!!!!!!!”and I was like WTF?? Is this the guy who sells the iPhone??Who Has got one of the few authentic reseller licenses from apple for selling iPods and macbooks in the city??
and I would not like apple to cut down its prices or lower the configuration. I love the way it is.anyways it does not need to.Wat it needs is a little bit of tv ads like the way it does in the us of a. Esp. the mac vs PC ones they’re too good.I’m sure it will educate the people about what can a mac really do!