“With
the increasing demand for the latest computer and consumer electronics we
expect that the addition of the Apple
products will enhance our portfolio in this category. Overall, computers and
consumer electronics account for 20 per cent of ATL's overall business and
project that Apple
will form a significant part of this product grouping”
Comments by General
Manager of ATL and assistant deputy chairman of ATL Group, Ian Neita in the
Sunday Gleaner date Sunday July 7th, 2013
Great
news for fans of Apple
and ATL (Appliance Traders Limited)
Jamaica, the appliance outfit owned by Gordon “Butch” Stewart and his son
Adam Stewart.
ATL Jamaica is not only selling
Alternative Energy products in direct competition with JPS Co (Jamaica Public
Service company) E-Store and everybody else as stated in my blog
article entitled “ATL
goes into Alternative Energy at the same time JPSCo goes into Retail of Energy
Saving Gear - ATL Elite The Gransmaster in a burgeoning Alternative Energy
Field in Jamaica”.
They’ve also branched out into something else: Apple products as stated in the article “ATL sells Apple”, published Tuesday, July 02, 2013 4:03 PM, The Jamaica Observer and “ATL to sell Apple products”, Published Sunday July 7, 2013, The Jamaica Gleaner.
They’ve also branched out into something else: Apple products as stated in the article “ATL sells Apple”, published Tuesday, July 02, 2013 4:03 PM, The Jamaica Observer and “ATL to sell Apple products”, Published Sunday July 7, 2013, The Jamaica Gleaner.
ATL Jamaica is now the sole Authorized
Retailer of Apple
products in Jamaica and is able to use their Logo and Trademarks in
advertisements as well as in the setup of a Store. The Apple products are
supplied to ATL Jamaica on contract via
a contractor named Tech Medic and can be viewed as a section on ATL
Jamaica’s Website!
So we have ATL Jamaica
APPLE Stores – Now what?
ATL Jamaica now has to live up to the
very high standards of Apple
in terms of not only their displays of Apple
products but also servicing provided to repair their products.
No
details of the deal from General Manager of ATL
Jamaica and Assistant Deputy Chairman of ATL Jamaica Group, Ian Neita, save to
say, quote: “Apple holds their
authorised dealers to very high standards, as is known worldwide. We are
expected to conform to brand guidelines in product displays, etc. ensuring that
the consumer is able to interact with and experience the product fully. As the
premier custodians of international brands in Jamaica we are confident that our
representation of this renowned brand will be compliant to their high
standards”.
Hopefully
this means that when the latest Apple
iPhone, the much rumoured Apple
iPhone 5S which is said to be packing a much improved camera as stated in the
article “An
iPhone 5S with better camera? Bring it” by published June 22,
2013 4:21 PM PDT Brooke Crothers, CNET
News
comes on the scene.
Telecom
Provider LIME may be partnering with ATL
Jamaica to launch the product at its Mobay, Kingston and Ocho Rios Stores.
Not sure if this means that Apple
products in Jamaica will be cheaper.
My disenchantment with
Apple – All about the Benjamins or Innovation in their DNA
To
be honest I’ve stopped writing about the Apple
iPhone refreshes, the last article being on the cusp of the launch of the Apple iPhone 5 as
stated in my blog
article entitled “Apple
iPhone 5 Event heralds 4G LTE and 4-inch Screen - New iPod and iMac Refresh
possible as Apple becomes Lawless”. Much of what I
expected didn’t materialized.
Worse,
Apple
pulled a fast one be debuting the Apple
iPad 4 in October some 7 month after the launch of the Apple iPad 3 as noted
in “Why
did Apple launch the iPad 4 now?”, published October
24, 2012 6:12 AM PDT by Lance Whitney, CNET
News , possibly in a bid to make sure it’s yearly refresh
cycles occur in the same Fourth Quarter of the Year.
This
is what upset me greatly; Apple
thinking about the Benjamins instead of innovation. Which was understandable as
under Apple
CEO Tim Cook, the company Stock Values was falling, mainly due to a lack of
performance in the other products and the saturation of the smartphone market as
stated in the article “Apple
Loop: Cook To Be Judged On Stock Price, PRISM Prompts Privacy Talk, Steve Jobs
On Being Obsolete”, published 6/22/2013 @ 1:05AM Connie Guglielmo, Forbes Magazine.
CEO Tim Cook comes into
his own: What’s cooking in the Apple Frying Pan
CEO
Tim Cook’s developing his own style as well, now 2 years on in his job as CEO.
He sees innovation as part of Apple’s
culture, not the function of an iconic Steve jobs and tries to nurture this
idea in his staff.
And
now there is tantalizing clues that a few new products are really in the
pipeline as noted in “Tim
Cook's New Innovation Strategy For Apple, Right On Time”,
published 7/02/2013 @ 8:08AM by Haydn Shaughnessy, Forbes Magazine,
namely:
This
was the Apple TV Set as described in my blog
article entitled “Apple
Television Set, a docking cradle for the Apple iTV - Super 8 A Gift for
Christmas”.
Then
Apple’s
much anticipated WWDC (Worldwide Developer Conference) came along and made some
revelations, making hope spring anew again of innovative new products aside
from the Apple
iPhone.
Apple iWatch – Time is on Apple’s
Side
First
there was the possibility of the Apple
iWatch and the Apple
iRadio as stated in my blog
article entitled “Apple
iWatch and Apple iRadio coming in the Second Quarter of 2013 - Battery life
innovations needed to power the Evil Dead for Apple iCloud Streaming”.
Samsung
and a motley crue of competitors
consisting of Google, LG and Microsoft all caught wind of this low hanging
Wearable Computing fruit and are now in hot pursuit of Apple’s alledged
iWatch as noted in my blog
article entitled “Samsung’s
apparently into Wristwatches along with Google and LG as smartwatch-smartphone
Tango Catches Fire”.
Now
news has surfaced Since early July 2013 that Apple has filed for
the name iWatch in Japan, Mexico, Taiwan, Turkey and Russia to name a few.
A
strong indication that Apple’s
got an iWatch (I’m calling it that from now on!) “Cook”-ing in the oven as
stated in the article “Apple
extends iWatch trademark filings to more countries”,
published July 2, 2013 5:07 AM PDT by Lance Whitney, CNET News
and “So
The iWatch Is Coming After All (Maybe)”, published 7/01/2013
@ 4:34AM by Haydn Shaughnessy, Forbes
Magazine.
iRadio and iOS7 – WWDC
Debutants with great Expectations
We
didn’t have long to wait to hear news of the iRadio.
Apple
brought that to life at Apple’s
WWDC, with the name morphing into Apple
iTunes Radio after Apple
completed final negotiations to get the service up and running as stated in the
article “Meet
iTunes Radio, Apple's long-awaited streaming-music service”,
published June 10, 2013 11:50 AM PDT by Paul Sloan, CNET News.
iOS
7 which came out at WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) as stated in “iOS
7 beta 3 brings bug fixes, other improvements”, published July 8, 2013
12:16 PM PDT by Desiree Everts DeNunzio, CNET
News
was more eye-candy than innovation, offering little more than a new interface
that seemed to take its cues from Google Android.
Apple iPhone Lite and Apple Television
Set – The Conjuring to spook the Established Order
With
the Apple
iPhone Lite and the Apple
Television Set being little more than rumours, little is known of these
products.
The
Apple
iPhone Lite appears to be a plastic, multi-coloured watered down version of the
Apple
iPhone aimed mainly at Developing world Markets as detailed in the article “'Apple
iPhone Lite' pictured in two versions -- report”,
published July 19, 2013 5:16 AM PDT by Don Reisinger, CNET News,
if rumours are to be believed.
The
Apple
Television Set is expected sometime in 2014 in a variety of sizes and will be a
4K HDTV based on the gathered rumours in the article “Apple
HDTV rumor roundup”, published April 8, 2013 4:14 PM PDT
by Josh Lowensohn, CNET
News.
Apple Mac Pro – 2 Fast 2
Furious pleases the Pro Apple Crowd
A
surprise product that made its debut at Apple’s
WWDC was a much improved Apple
Mac Pro, amazingly sporting the exact specs I’d predicted in my blog article entitled “Fiber
Optic Thunderbolt Cables are coming by the Third Quarter of 2013 – Apple Mac's
to finally get upgraded as Optical Computer now closer to practicality”.
It’s the perfect system to do high end
Animation as explained in my blog
article entitled “Animation
after KingstOOn - How to get free Video Editing Tools to breath life into you
Animation Project”.
The
a video on the assembly process indicates that is was assembled in the US of A,
not China!
ATL Apple Stores – The
Observer’s Fashion Night Out just Got interesting
So
that’s what seems to be what bubbling in Apple
innovation workshop, all slated it seems either for a Christmas debut or in the
first Quarter of 2014 as in the case of the Apple Television set.
Prices are still a bit fuzzy and are a mystery until Apple announces on
their webpage.
With
our own Apple
Stores here in Jamaica to support Telecom Provider LIME, hopefully as these
products come to light, they’ll win up here in Jamaica at the same time as well
instead of months later. No webpage required to order anymore!
Apple’s
Cupertino Kids surprised me yet again with innovative products that have the Apple Fanboys
Drooling, if now wetting themselves with anticipation of The Jamaica Observer
Fashion Nigh Out. Jamaica can now share in the innovation with Apple’s Despicable Me 2 (2013).
Here’s
the link:
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