UPDATE: Links are now gone from all the Apple Online Stores mentioned. I guess it will reappear very soon.
This just in from the myMUG forum, a local Mac Users Group which I frequent.
Building the pathway to an iPhone launch in Malaysia is the Online Apple Store. As of this moment, the Malaysian Online Apple Store currently has a “Shop iPhone” under the main navigation menu. The link is alive, but leads to a half-baked store page. Currently, only 8GB and 16GB models are presented. The details page also has a link to http://www.apple.com/my/iphone. Knowing Apple, that’s URL shall bring you to the official Malaysian Apple iPhone page! As of this moment, clicking that link redirects you to the US iPhone page instead.
I dug further and noticed that the “Shop iPhone” link appears across countries where the Online Store was recently launched: Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. All of them point to the same half-baked store page.
Don’t get your hopes up yet, as we still do not see Malaysia (as well as Indonesia, Thailand or Vietnam) under the list of countries where iPhones have been deployed.
But do stay tuned! Seeing that the store gets updated at this time of the year (its just 5 days till Christmas!), I believe Steve Jobs are getting his elves to help bring the iPhone to our shores at the very soonest possible!
Check out the pages via the links above. Enjoy the scenery while it lasts. I sure hope the person who maintains the code knows what he’d just unleashed (good news, of course).
Yay!
