It is not even the end of the year, MSN tech has published an article on Best Product of 2008.
It is worth taking note.
I will just simply it into a listing with hyperlinks.
It is worth taking note.
I will just simply it into a listing with hyperlinks.
- Hulu (video site, free/ad-based) -->Not popular in Malaysia yet.
- Apple iPhone --> Not popular in Malaysia yet
- Facebook --> Yes
- Windows XP -->Very yes
- Lenovo Thinkpad X300 --> Ok
- Flock (browser, free) --> Not popular in Malaysia yet
- Eye-Fi (wireless camera memory card, $100) --> hmm ...
- Casio Exilim Pro EX-F1 (digital camera, $1,000) --> hmm ...
- Harmonix Rock Band (game bundle, $170) --> hmm ..
- Wikipedia --> Yes yes
- Netflix (DVD rental and online video site, $5/month and up) --> No
- Microsoft Xbox Live (online service, $59/year) --> Not popular in Malaysia yet
- Apple iPod Touch (media player, $299-$499) --> No
- Craglist --> Not popular
- Scrabulous (PC game, free) --> hmmm, not really.
- Nintendo Wii (game console, $250) --> Getting popular
- Apple Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (operating system, $129) --> Niche market
- Apple Cinema HD Display (23-inch LCD monitor, $899) -->Niche market
- Twitter (social networking site, free) --> Not popular
- Pioneer Kuro PDP-5010FD (50-inch plasma HDTV, $3,500) --> Not popular
- Mozilla Firefox 3 (browser, free) --> Yes
- Safari (mobile browser, free) --> No
- NPR.org (news site, free) --> No
- Photoshop CS3 (image-editing software, $650) --> Yes
- Google Maps -- Street View (mapping software, free) --> Getting popular
- Apple MacBook Pro (Penryn) (Laptop series, from $1,999) --> Niche market
- Google Docs & Spreadsheets (Web-based productivity suite, free) --> Getting popular
- Apple Final Cut Studio 2 (video production suite, $1,299) --> Niche market
- Linksys Dual-Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router WRT600N (wireless router, $200) --> Yes
- Flickr (photo-sharing site, 200 photos free, unlimited photos and storage $25/year) --> Yes
- Some of the items mentioned above will definitely going to hit greater sales by year end of 2008. This is a good strategy of sales and marketing in fact.
- The ranking may represent USA's opinion, however in country like Malaysia, there will be some differentiation. For instance, in Korea, Google is not the biggest search engine and portal (as I was told); it's Naver. Always there will be exceptions.
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