Apple Reportedly Building 'World's Largest' Apple Store in Dubai, United Arab Emirates

[IGregory]

I sense the United Arab Emirates is an expensive place to live.

 

[zipa]

I sense the United Arab Emirates is an expensive place to live.

Not really.

 

[ogun7]

A slightly less crappy version of Subway.

Thank you, brother! (Or sister?)

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They have one of the best meatball sub on earth (but you have to add jalapeno peppers). Fantastic bread. Great pickled veggies.

Discovered them recently in Jersey City, Exchange Place, thinking it was a one of a kind place. Discovered later on it's a chain.

Thank you very much. I live in NJ now. I'll check it out today.

 

[Vogue Harper]

Imagine if they close Kinokuniya in Dubai Mall and they open the Apple store in its place?? That bookstore is huge. It would be massive!

You leave Kinokuniya right where it is in Dubai Mall! Thank you

As a Murakami fan (initially Haruki and then, thanks to the aforesaid Kinokuniya, Ryu), this is by far my favourite shop in all of Dubai Mall and has introduced me to many a previously undiscovered Japanese writer.

 

[RoyalElephant]

Apple like many other conglomerates need your Ireland just for taxing purposes. They are not interested in your country as a market.

Yeah. Obviously. Thanks for reminding me of why I hate living in this dump.

But the dominant smartphone here is the iPhone and there's Macs everywhere. My country, regardless of Apple's interest in it, is already a market that could be expanded.

We're not a third world country with no infrastructure, everyone I know uses something from Apple.

They have one in Northern Ireland, so they should have one at least in Dublin too.

 

[sillypooh]

Thank you very much. I live in NJ now. I'll check it out today.

From the PATH station, 50 meters on your left. Bon Appetit!

 

[Scarmanaga]

so it won't be setup by January 1st, right?

I live in Dubai and I highly doubt the new store would replace the Vox Cinema in the Mall of Emirates. The theater is doing quite well and the location doesn't quite fit either (right next to it is a large food court and the floor below has Virgin Megastore nearby). All of the electronic shops are toward the east side of the Mall, and recently Jumbo Electronics went out of business I think. So that could be the potential new store. Otherwise, I wonder where that "biggest store in the world" could be because Vox Cinema itself isn't even that big.

Another fact to think about is that in the Mall of Emirates there is already an Apple authorized store. I wonder what will happen to that store (although hardly anyone purchases from that store based on what I have seen)

any recommendations where to buy the iPhone6 early January since I'll be around ?

 

[LadyX]

Apple Reportedly Building 'World's Largest' Apple Store in Dubai, United Arab...

any recommendations where to buy the iPhone6 early January since I'll be around ?

They'll have them available at iStyle by then.

 

[Moto G]

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[fortysomegeek]

It is unfortunate that Apple's profit trumps the physical safety and security of the employees and staff needed to make a store like this happen.

I think it's a big mistake to open an Apple store in Dubai.

You do know Dubai has one of the highest concentration of millionaires and ultra rich billionaires per square inch? People buy their 15 year old kids brand new Range Rovers (a different color for each day of the week) to actually go sandstorming and four wheeling in the sand dunes. When they reach 21, they get their triad collection of exotic cars to go with their pet Bengali tigers.

Dubai is a modern marvel of a city; completely new construction. Think of it like Las Vegas but without the pawnshops, gaudy mid-west vacationers.

 

[LadyX]

People buy their 15 year old kids brand new Range Rovers (a different color for each day of the week) to actually go sandstorming and four wheeling in the sand dunes. When they reach 21, they get their triad collection of exotic cars to go with their pet Bengali tigers.

Wow. Completely and utterly false. Don't believe everything you read online or hear from people who have no idea what they're talking about. Bengali tigers? Cars for each day of the week? Lol.

 

[1JJJ]

https://jobs.apple.com/ae/search#location&t=0&sb=req_open_dt&so=1&lo=0*ARE&pN=0&openJobId=UAEBS

 

[Jumeira]

Recently one shop catch my eye inside Mall of Emirates, they closed the shop for renovation and covered it by black partition, while other shops in the same mall (having renovation) had their logo own logo and brand name on the partition, I did some search and came out with the idea that this shop will be the 1st Apple store in the UAE Dubai, I discovered that most of Apple retail store are covered by black partition, like these:

Now take a look on the pictures I took of the Apple retail store in the Mall of Emirates:

I came to be sure of that by coming near to this store and saw one guy coming out wearing a shirt with Apple logo on it, when I looked inside while the guy coming out I'd say they need at least 4 or 5 months to open the store, will keep you updated.

 

[Jumeira]

Apple will open another retail store in Dubai Mall just near to the tallest building in the world Burj Khalifa, the store will be located in the same place where the Japanese restaurant Katsuya, now if you go to Zomato (Open Table alike) you will see that Katsuya is no longer exist:
https://www.zomato.com/dubai/katsuya-dubai-mall/menu

Apple employees will have this view at the back of the store which used to be outside sitting area for Katsuya:

Regarding the Mall of Emirates store, Apple took the place where used to be a coffee shop called Chocolate bar which is delisted from Zomato as well:
https://www.zomato.com/dubai/alison-nelson-chocolate-bar-mall-of-the-emirates

 

[Jumeira]

Latest updates on Dubai's Apple store:

• I got news from a guy working on the project of the Mall of Emirates Apple store that it will be opened next month, it might be around 25 Oct.
• The area size of the store will be around 1150 square meter which confirms the opposite of having the biggest Apple store in the world.
• The other Apple store in Dubai Mall will open in 2016.
• Also Apple plans to open a 3rd store in Abu Dhabi.

 

[AleXXXa]

Well UAE has a vast desert so why not make a largest store if it's cheap land!

Cheap land? In Dubai? hahahaha! ))

 

[Jumeira]

Apple store in Dubai is 3 or 4 weeks away from official opening, an instgram user posted this picture 15 weeks ago from inside the store while construction work being held.

 

[Maniello]

Meanwhile the one closest to my house at a mall is supposedly the worlds smallest Apple store. With 8-12 employees in it there is barely any room or a few customers. I don't even like to go in it.

The photo doesn't show the large table in the center.

https://www.apple.com/retail/oakridge/

I'm not sure which one opened up earlier, but to me it seems, like the one in Eastview Mall, Victor NY is half the size
https://www.apple.com/retail/eastview/