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New UK and German Retail Stores Opening This Week, Largest Chinese Store Coming Soon

iChrist said:
Simple.

http://www.economist.com/node/21528226

Thank you very much for prove my point on US. You only see what you want and insult other culture. You do business in other country? I think not since you can only speak English. Sounds like story to me. :D

Apple is smart for expanding to China. Very smart.
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Re-read my posts, I did not insult ANY culture. You did all the insulting of nations/cultures -- specifically the USA -- I just defended the USA. I also insulted you for your ignorance, and yes the more your post, the more you prove my point. And yes I work for a multi-national company. I never said I only speak English (just that most Americans only speak English) though most of the top tech people in my company whom I work with all speak English and it has become the language of international business. That's a fact. I've never had to use any other language in my current job because of that fact.

The article you referenced makes one reference to China (you may want to re-read it since it kinda defeats your points). I'll quote the one reference to China:

Emerging economies—especially China—are pouring resources into building universities that can compete with the elite of America and Europe.
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Let me translate that for you since you apparently did not understand it. China's universities currently do not compete with the elite of America and Europe (i.e.: the best ones), and so they are investing heavily here to catch up. This is because their economy is transforming and a new middle class is emerging -- the same thing happened in India in the last decade or so. If anything it says their higher education system is inferior, but says nothing about the intelligence of the people as whole (probably because the writer is not so ignorant as to make such a remark about an entire nation's intelligence).

As a side note, I starting learning German in a previous job while working in Germany, but was only their for two months so never became fluent. Most people there were wonderful, except for a snobby Belgian guy who insisted on insulting Americans and Australians all the time, believing he was somehow in a superior position to judge entire nations of people (disclaimer: most Belgians are wonderful people, this guy was an exception). I've never met an Australian I did not like so I gladly defended Americans and Australians to his face, shooting him down many times. The guy did not like being shot down so often so he started speaking French in front of me because he assumed I could not understand him, when I did respond to a German coworker in English after she said something in French to him his jaw dropped. My French is not that great, mainly knowledge I have gained from similarity to Spanish, but it was fun watching him turn white. That was early in my career, and any time I encounter jerks like you that like to insult an entire nation of people because you think you are somehow superior, I will gladly call you out on it.

I agree with you on one thing... Apple is smart for expanding into China. There is much money to be made there.

I glanced at your approximately 25 other posts since you joined this forum this month and so far I have seen zero contribution, just a bunch of dumb questions and complaints about those who have "demi-god" status. Step your game up and save your racist insults for yourself. You may actually earn some respect around here if you do that.
 
Oh whoop de doo.

Yet another store in London.

Amazingly enough some people do actually live in other areas Apple.
Perhaps you should consider a few more stores where are are none at the moment before yet another one in London. :mad:
 
Benjy91 said:
There are a dozen huge British cities with no Apple Stores, and yet they decide

"Let's build another one in London!"
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To be fair, as a former Londoner, depending upon where you live in London the time it takes to travel from one Apple store to another is often proportional to the time it would take most of you to get to your nearest Apple store. Between a fifth and a quarter of the entire population of the UK lives in and around London, so you would expect more than a handful of stores to service that population to say nothing of the transient trade you get from being a capital city.

For you in Lincoln, Sheffield is about an hour away. You might want to ask some of the American posters here, where there is numerically an abundance of Apple stores, how long it would take to get to their nearest one.

If Lincoln had landed the Olympics, you would have had a store by now. It is pretty much the only reason Apple opened that branch.
 
BC2009 said:
Re-read my posts, I did not insult ANY culture. You did all the insulting of nations/cultures -- specifically the USA -- I just defended the USA. I also insulted you for your ignorance, and yes the more your post, the more you prove my point. And yes I work for a multi-national company. I never said I only speak English (just that most Americans only speak English) though most of the top tech people in my company whom I work with all speak English and it has become the language of international business. That's a fact. I've never had to use any other language in my current job because of that fact.

The article you referenced makes one reference to China (you may want to re-read it since it kinda defeats your points). I'll quote the one reference to China:



Let me translate that for you since you apparently did not understand it. China's universities currently do not compete with the elite of America and Europe (i.e.: the best ones), and so they are investing heavily here to catch up. This is because their economy is transforming and a new middle class is emerging -- the same thing happened in India in the last decade or so. If anything it says their higher education system is inferior, but says nothing about the intelligence of the people as whole (probably because the writer is not so ignorant as to make such a remark about an entire nation's intelligence).

As a side note, I starting learning German in a previous job while working in Germany, but was only their for two months so never became fluent. Most people there were wonderful, except for a snobby Belgian guy who insisted on insulting Americans and Australians all the time, believing he was somehow in a superior position to judge entire nations of people (disclaimer: most Belgians are wonderful people, this guy was an exception). I've never met an Australian I did not like so I gladly defended Americans and Australians to his face, shooting him down many times. The guy did not like being shot down so often so he started speaking French in front of me because he assumed I could not understand him, when I did respond to a German coworker in English after she said something in French to him his jaw dropped. My French is not that great, mainly knowledge I have gained from similarity to Spanish, but it was fun watching him turn white. That was early in my career, and any time I encounter jerks like you that like to insult an entire nation of people because you think you are somehow superior, I will gladly call you out on it.

I agree with you on one thing... Apple is smart for expanding into China. There is much money to be made there.

I glanced at your approximately 25 other posts since you joined this forum this month and so far I have seen zero contribution, just a bunch of dumb questions and complaints about those who have "demi-god" status. Step your game up and save your racist insults for yourself. You may actually earn some respect around here if you do that.
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It is good your job allows so much time to write a novel many times on a rumors website. I see you are a busy man. lol
 
Benjy91 said:
There are a dozen huge British cities with no Apple Stores, and yet they decide

"Let's build another one in London!"

They need to replace the Apple Team in the UK who decides where to build here, not even Lincoln, A huge, pretty rich city which is loaded with electronic and gadget stores, and was voted "Geek Capital City of the North" has one. And Lincoln is swarming with thousands of College and University students anyway.
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You may want to consult

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_districts_by_population

and get a more proportional view of the size of Lincoln. There are cities 10 times bigger with no Apple store.
 
weckart said:
If Lincoln had landed the Olympics, you would have had a store by now. It is pretty much the only reason Apple opened that branch.
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Westfield Stratford is the biggest shopping centre in Europe. I'm pretty sure that's enough for Apple on it's own!
 
unlinked said:
You may want to consult

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_districts_by_population

and get a more proportional view of the size of Lincoln. There are cities 10 times bigger with no Apple store.
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Lincoln also is the 4th most densely gadget orientated city in the UK, and is a bustling Student city, with a very busy University and College, and plenty of ancient buildings that could easily be converted into a beautiful Apple Store. Lincolnshires roads are notoriously bad, the quickest route to Sheffield is going to take 75 minutes at best, but this also includes paying Toll Booths, if you want to avoid the toll booths, you have to drive for 95 minutes. All this to get to 1 store.
 
Benjy91 said:
There are a dozen huge British cities with no Apple Stores, and yet they decide

"Let's build another one in London!"

They need to replace the Apple Team in the UK who decides where to build here, not even Lincoln, A huge, pretty rich city which is loaded with electronic and gadget stores, and was voted "Geek Capital City of the North" has one. And Lincoln is swarming with thousands of College and University students anyway.

Next time he says "Hmmm what about another Apple store in London?" he should be fired.

Out of a cannon.

Into the Sun.
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a) there aren't a dozen HUGE UK cities full stop!!

b) there are loads of non-london apple stores!
 
Lesser Evets said:
Still not opened in every state of the USA.
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Shanghai's metropolitian area has 24 million people, almost the size of Canada or 1/15 of the US population. Pretty awesome when you think about it. I'm sure the China store will do very well.

vrDrew said:
If the US is "the past", how come so many Chinese people seem fascinated with US culture, technology, and the like? Why do tens of thousands of the best Chinese students come to study in US universities?
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Chinese students study overseas to gain international exposure, the Chinese of today are not an insular people. American culture was/is slightly taboo and therefore a huge attraction to the young people of China. However, the current crop of Chinese students, unlike their predecessors, are less likely to immigrate permanently to the United States, they instead return home with ideas and knowledge gained from their overseas education.

While it's obvious China currently does not yet have the United States' economic or cultural influence, it's return to the world stage has been dramatic. Shifts in influence happen over decades or centuries, it's only with the benefit of history can we really look back and realize how much the world has changed.

But even just looking back 10 years... we see how much China has risen and the great changes the United States has faced. But perhaps it takes an external perspective to see this ... being Canadian and watching things unfold from an arms length has been "interesting" :)

BC2009 said:
But the bulk of the innovation by my employer comes out of the USA -- and the same is true for Apple. Right now China means two things to Apple: manufacturing and untapped customers -- yes $$.
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It's just history repeating itself ... The United States grew dramatically through the industrial revolution when it was the workshop of the world. Gradually the United States developed a knowledge based economy and moved onto bigger and better things. China is the world's workshop today - but is on track to develop a significant knowledge economy as well. We should be wary(?) or at least prepared for the inevitable.
 
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More stores outside of Shanghai/Beijing

Dear Apple,

More stores outside of Shanghai/Beijing please.


Yours sincerely,
The rest of the China.
 
jambosans said:
I have not seen any reference to this store, and can't see anything on that website.

There is however an Apple Store opening in Braehead Shopping Centre this month (reportedly). The third store in Scotland.
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I'll second that, when I was last over at Braehead the store front was blacked out with the big white :apple: logo stuck on front and centre, so I would imagine it was fairly imminent.

It’s where the Gap store was on the ground floor.

I also can’t turn up any evidence of an East Kilbride store other than it was rumoured prior to the Braehead one becoming public knowledge; I dare say it was a rumoured likely site and Braehead won out in the end.
 
OllyW said:
Because they've only just built it. ;)
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Indeed: the centre only opened it's doors this morning. I have to update my above statement. Despite many misleading headlines it's the largest urban shopping centre in Europe.

I think this is part of what people clamouring for a store in their city fail to grasp. Apple demand many things to open a store. One is a large enough population. Two is that the population is affluent enough. Three is a premium/upscale mall with a vacant space of the correct size. Apart from flagship stores Apple tend to be in very nice malls. Anyone expecting Apple to build flagship stores in places like Lincoln will be waiting a very long time.
 
robbieduncan said:
I think this is part of what people clamouring for a store in their city fail to grasp. Apple demand many things to open a store. One is a large enough population. Two is that the population is affluent enough. Three is a premium/upscale mall with a vacant space of the correct size.
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Toronto, Canada has like 7 Apple Stores, and they continue to open more here. The GTA area only has 5 million people.

Strange.
 
Love the way U.S. news agencies report on British names. Last week there was Cheapside Drive (?), now they're saying that Westfield is in Stratford City :)confused: ?). FYI Stratford is where the Olympics will be, and Westfield is (I think) actually inside the Olympic Park. And Stratford isn't a city, it's a borough of London. In the UK we tend to use the word city less often than in the US - a place like Cupertino with only 60,000 people would definitely not count as a city - here a city needs a cathedral and normally has a university. But overall I love MacRumours, but quite why Apple are building so many stores in Britain is beyond me. There are 5 within an hour's journey of my house :D
 
tom.reynolds said:
Love the way U.S. news agencies report on British names. Last week there was Cheapside Drive (?), now they're saying that Westfield is in Stratford City :)confused: ?). FYI Stratford is where the Olympics will be, and Westfield is (I think) actually inside the Olympic Park. And Stratford isn't a city, it's a borough of London. In the UK we tend to use the word city less often than in the US - a place like Cupertino with only 60,000 people would definitely not count as a city - here a city needs a cathedral and normally has a university. But overall I love MacRumours, but quite why Apple are building so many stores in Britain is beyond me. There are 5 within an hour's journey of my house :D
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Stratford City is the name for the development at Stratford housing the athletes village for the games, the Westfield shopping centre and maybe more. Westfield themselves refer to the centre as "Westfield Stratford City". So in this case the US press is 100% correct.
 
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