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Apple Announces New Miami Worldcenter Store With Special Wallpaper

DEMinSoCAL said:
Those wallpapers could have looked so much better. They look like they were printed on a crappy inkjet printer on crappy paper where the colors are all dull and unsaturated.
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Not everything needs to be geared toward the TikTok generation.
 
Apple sets their priorities straight. Make a horrible new wallpaper for every event and occasion but neglect the state of actual important things that needs attention.
 
DEMinSoCAL said:
I wouldn't know what that actually is since I don't use TikTok and I'm probably older than most people here so not of the "TikTok generation". I call it like I see it ... It's called an opinion.
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Yeah, fair call. Art is always subjective. But hey, people like shiny things.
 
Very nice wallpaper but the colours could have been brighter. Looking forward to seeing photos from the store opening.
 
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Blackstick said:
I worked at Apple stores in South Florida for 7 years. Pretty much all of affluent Latin and Central America buys their Apple products in Miami while on vacation. We'd do a million bucks of revenue on any random Tuesday or Wednesday in March. The store itself sold over $700 million a year... and I left in 2014, I assume some of those stores like Aventura or Brickell probably do over a billion a year, by now. Latin American resellers and questionable drug dealers dripping in jewelry would buy iPhones by the carton. It was outrageous. And as far as I know, since Apple has virtually no retail presence in those countries outside of 2 stores in Brazil and 2 in Mexico, the crazy continues.

Most of it comes down to price. An entry level MacBook Air purchased in Colombia costs as much as a high end MacBook Pro in the USA.
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Wow, this is great insight and jaw dropping.

Latin here, after you mentioned how some would buy so much, I can see it happening. Barring the insane rich through skewed means, even the not so affluent Latin people do dress, perfume, hair-cuts and walks for a complete affluent look.
Also likely very family oriented (since forever that culture), they could be buying for family: mother, father, grand parents, kids, cousins, nephews, wife, “side wife” (joking), extended family, the lady that helped them go through some studies when they were kids, etc.

Not at all affluent myself but back in the days I could be at someone’s family party (sometimes 50+ people in a modest place, easy) and see someone arrive with tons of presents like a dozen phone for that person’s close family there at the gathering.
You could hear a scream soon after by that person’s mom: “Juanitaaaa! (Little Joan, likely some nephew) Come here! Pedrito (Peter Jr) has arrived from the trip, come check what he brought you!” 🤣
 
Wanted797 said:
That is a nice wallpaper, but why does it look hazy and lacking saturation?
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It's not hazy and it doesn't lack "saturation". It is what it is. Not all art looks the same. Something doesn't have to be all shiny and bright to be art. Read about pastel colors.
 
Fluffyk said:
Apple sets their priorities straight. Make a horrible new wallpaper for every event and occasion but neglect the state of actual important things that needs attention.
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Huh? So you are claiming that every new wallpaper Apple creates is "horrible"?
And do you really think that creating a wallpaper detracts in any way from "actual important things that need attention"?
 
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dang MacRumors… can y’all or someone in the comments at least post a pic of the space? 😭

I would think people would find it interesting to see the progress or the store covered up.

iFO Apple Store and Michael Steeber used to have us covered.
 
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