iPad 2 Bloodbath Continues

pictures and screen capture from mingpao.com

From Beijing to Hong Kong, from Apple to Fortress, the bloodbath is unrelenting and is carried on in Hong Kong.  Alas, Hong Kong is no Beijing, not yet, so instead of blood, they got only red paint.  So that's lame relatively speaking.  And there is no Apple enforcer who rightly and righteously gave the unruly iPad line jumpers and scalpers a well deserved bloody beating.

Anyway, I have to give accolades to Fortress and the young scalper.

Fortress doesn't discriminate and sell to whoever pays up, not based on some bullshit like where the customers come from, what they buy it for or worse arbitrarily judge people's attire for saleability.  So that's a very good thing.  The young scalper has good work ethics.  Though I don't quite get why he needs to be hospitalized--he got thrown red paint all over by a couple of guys; perhaps a sign or reflection of how generous and benevolent the Hong Kong health system is.  The kid wastes no time, immediately gets back to work, in hospital slippers and pajamas.  I think it's this kind of work ethics that most local Hong Kong kids (though, some even have masters degree) sorely lack and desperate in need of in order to compete.

I expect more iPad 2 bloodbath, or at least red paint, going on in the near future.  Fortress should send out some enforcers with metal pipes in hand to keep people in line, me think.