Lenovo on Apple: They Could do Well in China

Lenevo is quite worried at the prospect of Apple getting serious in the Chinese Market, at least according to Liu Chuanzhi, Lenovo’s founder and chairman. “If Apple were to spend the same effort on the Chinese consumer as we do, we would be in trouble.” Lenovo has a grip on 30% of the Chinese home market, but that might not last for long.

Apple products, while popular in China, have limited distribution through official channels. The Chinese market provides a, “Major growth opportunity,” and Apple is set to be opening a new store in Shanghai this Saturday. Apple plans to add 25 major retail outlets in China by the end of next year.

While other PC makers such as HP and Dell are attempting to make a profit in China’s huge market opportunity, the Financial Times reports that Mr. Liu suggested Apple was defying this logic. “Steve Jobs is a genius. He is the exception to my rule.”

[via Financial Times]

Want a White iPhone 4 Right Now? You can Build Your Own

The white iPhone 4 craze has tempted some to do some incredibly dangerous things. We’re not talking about slathering your piano black iPhone with spray paint or white-out kind of crazy either, we’re talking about major surgery. TechCrunch reports that if you’ve got gonads of steel, you might consider plopping down another two hundred bucks and buying the individual parts needed for the operation, but I’d think twice before pulling the trigger. I mean, it’s just a color right? Guys?

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Snowtape Radio Winners Announced

Thanks everyone who entered the Snowtape giveaway.We also want to thank the Vemedio developers for the promo codes they offered to MacStories readers.

Here are the winners:

Joe Turner

Richard Testani

Fabian Van Schepdael

You’ll receive the promo codes in your inbox in a few hours. Stay tuned for other giveaways coming this week. You can follow the official MacStories Twitter account as @macstoriesnet or Federico as @viticci

Save Web Pages to iTunes As PDFs

Yesterday I stumbled upon this tutorial on CNET which shows how you can save a webpage to .PDF, import it in iTunes using Mac OS X’s built-in “print to PDF” functionality and then read it on your iPad / iPhone with iBooks. It’s an interesting hack, which implies creating an iTunes alias and move it into Library/ PDF Services.

I’ve followed the tutorial and I think that it works pretty good if you want to save pages without formatting, focusing only on text - it’s perfect for long articles. But I’d like to be able to save webpages of any kind, not just articles that don’t have images. I want the full web page on my iPad, and I think I’ve found a good solution.

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