Apple to Open Its Largest Chinese Retail Store in Shanghai

[xlii]

In ten years China will have more Apple Stores than the US will.

China is a manufacturing powerhouse and the money will flow to them. Manufacturing creates new wealth. Service jobs, like the US only has left now, just move the wealth around. Good Luck.

 

[ale500]

There’s some fun architecture there, but I have to say that one building looks like bad CGI from Babylon 5

You make it sound like there is also *good* CGI in Babylon 5...

 

[Full of Win]

I was hoping Apple would get out of China completely. Find another place to build the hardware

Yeah, Apple is going to leave the country with the cheapest skilled labor, laxest environmental laws, and the largest population (1.3 billion).

Me thinks you will have to hope for quite a bit longer.

In ten years China will have more Apple Stores than the US will.

China is a manufacturing powerhouse and the money will flow to them. Manufacturing creates new wealth. Service jobs, like the US only has left now, just move the wealth around. Good Luck.

Yep.

 

[louis Fashion]

Chinese Staffing - Axel Rose

New Shanghai store to be staffed by 13 year old "workers"

 

[iPhoneCollector]

New Shanghai store to be staffed by 13 year old "workers"

You mean 7.

 

[alphaod]

New Shanghai store to be staffed by 13 year old "workers"

You mean 7.

Have either you been to China?

 

[gkarris]

New Shanghai store to be staffed by 13 year old "workers"

You mean 7.

Have either you been to China?

#32 and it's about to become "Politcal"...



Back on track - it's cool Apple can open stores in major cities. I love the fact China's chosen the "futuristic" theme...

 

[Steve Mobs]

Nice architecture.

 

[vincenz]

I was hoping Apple would get out of China completely. Find another place to build the hardware

If it weren't for China, there would no Apple like the one today.

 

[$$$AAPL$$$]

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Gotta love the prospect of CDMA China Telecom revenue. Another instantaneous million+ iPhone buyers when the deal is inked$$$

 

[lostngone]

I was hoping Apple would get out of China completely. Find another place to build the hardware

Why do you want Apple out of China and where else would they go?

Korea?
Thailand?
India?

 

[lostngone]

Have either you been to China?

I have, Labor is cheap. You walk into a small restaurant and you might have 25 people eating there however there is 8 wait staff plus the people in the kitchen.

In the US with that same situation you would have maybe 4 at the very most, the service would be slow and they would still expect a tip.

 

[snakelda]

The view looks amazing!

 

[Mr Fusion]

The view looks amazing!

+ 1

This is the first picture I've seen of this store's location by Pearl Tower and the cityscape in the background. VERY COOL!!

 

[ten-oak-druid]

Is that giant ball on a tripod in the background really there or is it photoshopped in? It doesn't look real.

 

[Zerozal]

Is that giant ball on a tripod in the background really there or is it photoshopped in? It doesn't look real.

It's real. It's the Oriental Pearl Tower.

 

[ten-oak-druid]

It's real. It's the Oriental Pearl Tower.

Cool!

I think the angle of this photo makes it look rather odd against the surroundings; like a bad sci-fi movie. I picture MST 3K characters about to sit in the lower right. It doesn't look real.


Other photos in the link give it a different appearance.

 

[nylonsteel]

wont be long before we see youtube video of china aapl store workers doing group tai chi before the store opens in the morning - in there bright garish colored t shirts of course

 

[Thunderhawks]

I wonder if they allow haggling / price negations ?

only "rice" negotiations

 

[apparatchik]

chinese capitalism

 

[gpcovenant]

I have, Labor is cheap. You walk into a small restaurant and you might have 25 people eating there however there is 8 wait staff plus the people in the kitchen.

In the US with that same situation you would have maybe 4 at the very most, the service would be slow and they would still expect a tip.

8? I was in in a restaurant in Guangzhou with about 100 customers and probably 70 staff. People from the USA dont appreciate the scale of China's population evidenced by Apple not building large enough stores.


But come on APPLE, build a ********** store in Hong Kong already, the shopping capital of the world. There is a mall about every other block, enough LV stores to populate the USA and yet not a single Apple retail.

 

[Xtremekillr]

Recently went on a trip to China.. It's simply amazing. All I can say is what a difference these last 10 years China has grown. Definitely going back and checking this out in the near future.

 

[Fubar1977]

Shanghai looks like an episode of Futurama
The Apple store fits in rather nicely.

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

I was hoping Apple would get out of China completely. Find another place to build the hardware

You bet! We should revoke all the licenses we gave them to make crap and leave.

 

[cleanup]

Will stop by next time I visit Shanghai.

As for all the ignorant comments about China, you won't know until you go. It's rather difficult knowing much about a place halfway around the world, especially for us North Americans. If you have the chance, go and take a look for yourself. It'll be a pleasant surprise.