Arabic iPod?
I first thought this was a joke. I kind of have given up on Apple taking notice of the good old Arab world. But this news seems legit. Is this the start of something?
Gulfnews: Arabic version of iPod to be launched soonDubai: An Arabic version of Apple’s hugely popular iPod will hit the market soon, officials have revealed.”Apple is working on this. A prototype has already been made available to us,” said Elias Abou-Rustom, general manager of Arab Business Machine, Apple’s independent marketing company for the Middle East.”This could be launched in the Middle East in the coming months.”Rustom said his company is working closely with Apple on launching the Arabic version of the computer’s latest innovation, Tiger operating system, which makes computing much easier and user-friendly.The popularity of the iPod is driving Apple’s sales globally as well as regionally.
Ok! Shoutout to Microsoft and Apple: How about finally getting your act to gether and releasing an Arabic MS Office for the Mac. Now THAT’s something that will REALLY help your sales in the region!
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January 19th, 2006 at 2:36 am
Oh, yeah. I even read somewhere that the new mall (the one with Carrefour) is going to have an Apple store.
January 19th, 2006 at 11:55 am
that would add well into my wishlist…
but today i have a msg to all people who take life too seriously… to know it make sure to stop by my blog… its http://reflectupon.blogspot.com/
January 19th, 2006 at 6:49 pm
Microsoft considered it once upon a time, however due to the piracy issues in the Middle East, they held off. Moreover, thats why the new versions of office for XP don’t support Arabic MS Word – one would have to use Windows ‘98 if they wanted it. Subsequently on the contrary – I’m not sure if it would increase either of their sales at all.
At the same time, iPods shouldn’t come as a major surprise since Apple announced within the last 24 hours that they’ve sold more iPods than Macs. Steve Jobs said at ‘06 Mac World that they selling 100 iPods a minute. Wouldn’t you open the door international markets (localization) if you sold 100 iPods per minute.
April 5th, 2006 at 10:56 pm
An Arabic iPod!?... Well, why not?!... An Israeli outfit dealing in Macs already have Hebrew working…
As for releasing an Arabic MS Office for the Mac, I don’t think that’s going to happen anytime soon… It would merely be a reason for Arabic, Parsi and Hebrew users to leave the the Windows platform…
I know from Hebrew using Mac friends that those of them that have a need to work on Hebrew documents with Windows based MS Office colleagues have found a pretty good solution in NeoOffice which is the Mac version of OpenOffice…
July 17th, 2006 at 11:52 pm
i always want to have an ipod for one main reason. an ipod who play arabic songs. I
bought one, but i did’t enjoy it very much because i didn’t accomplish my goal. i have downloaded all my favorite arabic songs but every time i send those songs to the library, it won’t transfer it. i tried so many way, trying to figure out but i still experiencing the same problem. i even went for help in the computer lab center in my college but they couldn’t do it. they said that those arabic songs appearing as rm instead of pegm. they told me that i need to convert those songs to pegm which i have no idea how to convert rm to pegm. therefore, i am writing you for help. if you experience any such as my problem, please reply back to me with more explanation if you have the key to that problem. thank you very much
August 2nd, 2006 at 11:02 pm
I have MoblieCube mp3 player and I coverted my arabic rm songs to mp3 using a program called ” AltoMP3 Gold”. You can find the program on the net…just download it to computer. Its very easy to use. The coverted files work fine on my MobileCube. Ive been thinking of buying an ipod so if you try it and it works for you let me know… or…If i get an IPOD I’ll try it and let you know.. whichever comes first I guess.
April 12th, 2007 at 11:06 am
I need to know where to buy arabic songs online, ofcourse for my ipod?
thank you guys
September 18th, 2007 at 2:59 am
just convert any song to mp3 and put them to your library and then transfer then to your iPod and voila
March 2nd, 2009 at 1:52 am
So what happened? We’re now in 2009 and still no Arabic on iPod other than touch through third party apps.
June 6th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
[...] Support Arabic on the iPod. An Arabic iPod prototype was supposed to be released in 2006 according to Elias Abou-Rustom, general manager of Arab Business Machine but nothing happened in the last 3 years. While regular iPods are still lacking Arabic, the upcoming iPhone/iPod touch OS 3.0 will finally add Arabic support. Thank you Apple. [...]
June 8th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
FINALLY
!!
September 10th, 2009 at 1:07 am
not finally
since it was an ipod touch,
however the new ipod nanos support arabic!!
screw ABM and their vaporware prototype.
http://www.saudimac.com/?p=1844
September 10th, 2009 at 1:12 am
[...] One of the features of the new iPod nano is adding support for Arabic. Arabic is finally supported on a regular iPod even though there was supposed to be a prototype in 2006. [...]
September 10th, 2009 at 1:23 am
[...] و لكن أهم ميزة هي إضافة اللغة العربية في الآيبود نانو أخيراً. بالرغم من وجود “جهاز تجريبي” من ABM قبل ثلاثة أعوام. [...]