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Tuesday, August 30, 2005

"Spread the Word"



I've noticed something really important for the Greek Macintosh community tonight. This something is clearly seen in the picture above. "Papasotiriou" is one the biggest Greek bookstores and this move clearly shows us that something is been going lately. The banner says "Now software for the Mac". This is amazing, because a few years ago the best thing you could find about the Mac would be MacFormat, MacAddict, MacWorld magazine with bandled shareware software. Market is slightly changing. This could be the best follow up after having many "traditional" Greek pee.cee. stores (i.e. Plaisio, eShop, Shop21 etc.) emerging the Macintosh with the "live-a-safe-digital-life" Mac mini to the Greek market. However the variety of the software is poor yet, I believe that it will get bigger and bigger and other software/hardware stores will understand that things are changing.


* It seems that the main provider at the moment for the available software at "Papasotiriou" store is Rainbow S.A. (I really hope I'm wrong, you'll understand if you read further) because it is the main distributor of the listed software. If I'm correct, they should probably realize that they need also to provide Games, Utilities software which is available only at their on-line store. Because not all people has the ability or wants to spent their time in their on-line store they should understand that sometimes we just want to go shopping in the streets and just buy it "right here-right now" (which is NOT an available option at ANY street store of Rainbow S.A.). The profit comes by reselling the product and not by trying to sell only by your self you're the main distributor - nobody knows Rainbow S.A. but everybody knows Papasotiriou. Is THAT difficult to understand?
Also, no localized (aka. Greek patched) version is available at least of the Mac OS - are they trying to be the only holders of THEIR patent? That's how it is characterized officially by them. A patent. Apple should consider this "misbehavior". Get a life.

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