Macintosh Computers to Capture Ghanaian Hearts?

I know very few people who own Mac laptops--at least one is a ghanablogging.com member and she has waxed quite a bit at times about how great the Mac laptop is. I have checked out Mac prices and looked at my pocket and seen that the pocket lost out--big time!

I cannot ever be a fair representative of the average Ghanaian, but I can say that the average Ghanaian with sufficient disposable income might want a more conventional laptop, that comes with WINDOWS etc. Am not too sure that they would gravitate to the Mac that easily.

In that respect, it strikes me more odd and even more non-discerning for Mac to think that setting up shop in Accra Mall could endear it to making a killing in this unpredictable Ghanaian market.

Salaries might be getting higher--but I do not believe for a second that so much so that Ghanaians would shake from their technological conservatism to consider buying Mac Laptops!

Still, it might interest you to know that when I checked this I-shop in October, the store was spotless and had some six or seven macs running internet, for a cool 2.5 GHC and hour. Technology is powered by the beleaguered Vodafone Ghana, which the UK's Serious Fraud Office is investigating for financial irregularities in the purchase of 70% of Ghana Telecom shares in August 2008.

Already, I do not see a winning team!

So Vodafone Painted the Town Red

Ghana Telecom is no more. It's now Vodafone [Ghana], and they're currently making a lot of noise on television, splashing red all over the place. The mobile service ONETOUCH has also been subsumed under the Vodafone brand.

I'm naturally not too enamoured by gory red, which I think this is--neither am I with Vodafone Ghana.

I don't believe that after the erstwhile right-of-centre NPP government sold it for $US900 million for Vodafone to acquire 70% of its shares, anything is going to improve that much.

We live in hope. Well, some of us do.