“The iPhone is like a personal computer. Once you’ve installed the software, you can do everything with iPhone. Apple has full quality control. Nokia, Sony and Samsung Phone innovate from time to time and the price goes up and down. But iPhone is not like that. Apple produced its second generation, 2G iPhone, then improved that with the 3G iPhone. The high price reflects the status of its owner,”

“For the short term, the initial investment for developing software is probably high for small- and medium-sized businesses. But in the long term it saves time and money,”

“We have set up two internet connections in our shop so we nearly always have a connection – if the Myanmar Teleport line is out, the MPT connection can be used and vice versa. That’s really important to attract customers, I think, to keep them satisfied.”

“But these Myanmar-language websites are still remote from most users in Myanmar. Mysuboo, a social networking site that we launched in 2007, only has about 2000 users per day,”

“Now, there are both six-month and one-year warranties for computer sales and service and people have more confidence to buy second hand computers and are happy because they can get a computer at a reasonable price,”

“Mostly, we have seen [LCD] monitors decrease in price but other hardware products have also gone down, perhaps about 20 percent or 25pc if you compare to the same time last year. Laptop prices have decreased. Last year, a laptop with a Core2Duo processor sold for about $1700 but they now sell for about $1000,”

“I certainly cannot talk to my sister, who is using Yahoo, while logging into Google Talk. It takes extra time for me to use P Fingo to call her hand phone and hear her voice. Here, Gmail is the easiest way to connect with most of my friends here and abroad. But my sister doesn’t want to open a Gmail account just to talk to me,”

“The demand is gradually growing and becoming stable. If you hire a mobile phone, you have to pay a deposit of K200,000 plus monthly charges of about K40,000-50,000. At our shop, there are more repeat customers than first-time buyers. We sell an average of about 10 cards daily,”

“Yangon mobile phone users like GSM because of the good connection. The big market for CDMA (450 MHZ) is in lower Myanmar and Mandalay. The GSM market is in Yangon. But demand for the cellular system has receded.”