Marcelo Toledo

I remember the first time I wanted to install Linux, 15 years ago, I had a Compaq laptop where Linux would never work, but I didn’t know that, so I tried over and over again, I knew so much the slackware installer steps that I could do it without looking at the screen.

One day I got tired and changed the approach, sold my laptop and built my desktop computer with the pieces I knew would work, it was the fastest computer I ever saw with Linux working like a charm. After this day, I never stopped using Linux.

And that’s how the market share for Linux started growing. Prior this I used windows and it was funny how people made fun of it, everybody used, but looked like everybody hated, something was wrong.

We all hoped with the time Microsoft fixed all those problems and worked on making our life easier and not boring, but for some reason it simply didn’t, they committed serious mistakes year after year, and this ain’t new, read this email sent by Bill Gates, what they did after 2003?

Now Apple is being recognized for it’s operating system and graphical interface that just works, makes our life much easier then anything available in the market, any person that try it, will be happier.

Being in the market committing mistakes after mistakes without a competitor to take advantage of it was easy, now we’ll see some action!

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This is one of the tours I did, could see the coast and also visited this village created in the early days, people lived by the mountains and worked in the city, now it’s a famous and busy market as you can see:

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Computex is one huge event, all over Taipei you can see signs of it, everyone knows about it and looks everyone is going to it. We went there all days, we passed for every single booth, I gave so many business cards that I had to make more. If you or your company needs electronic equipment’s this is definitely a good way to start.

The event is divided in five sections:

• Communications products
• Peripherals
• Mega trends
• Media
• Display and Digital Entertainment

I believe that most of the opportunities are for OEM, companies that know how to build very well, but don’t know or don’t want to sell directly to the end user. One famous company that passed through this is Asus, they have part of the company selling OEM for big companies, but they also have their brand Asus, which is getting so big and so strong that is making front with companies like HP, Dell, Samsung, …, so what they did? Spin off the company, because of course you can’t compete with your own client.

Taipei is a very interesting city, it’s very hot, but very cloudy, rain almost everyday, people are warm, they are always very friendly and when they understand English they are so kind trying to help you everywhere.

Food is singular, the first time we chose a restaurant we made a mistake, asking for the set, I’ve never seen so many weird things in my life, unfortunately I am not used to it and I couldn’t eat most of it, so I am more cautious with food now. 

Tomorrow heading to Amsterdam, I’ll definitely miss Taipei, Zàijiàn!

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So much to say, so little time to write. It’s sad, but you have to arrive 2 hours before any international flight, plus, in my city to get in the airport secure, you need at least 2 hours, this sums 4 hours, plus 10 hours of flight to Amsterdam, then 8 hours to stretch a little bit, little walk in red light street, eat something, shower and 10 more hours to Bankgok, 1 more hour waiting, then the final 3 hours to Taipei, and when you arrive you are 12 hours ahead… Computex already started and it’s a boom, I am saving every picture and text to post here soon, stay tuned.

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