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Shanghai's Apple Store Opens to Large Crowds

DaBrain said:
Not sure why you would even bring that up?

What this picture reminds me of is that people still know how to present themselves in a decent manner. IE: No pants 3 times the size with peoples butts exposed, no pink, purple wild hairdos and no thousand piercings all over their bodies! What do ya know their normal human beings just like us! ;)
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Unrelated to the topic, I blew on your avatar because I thought it was on my screen. Trolled hard. :eek:
 
I'm especially fond of this picture of the first guy in line:

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Looks like Jobs has replaced Mao. :D Which, by the way, I'm perfectly fine with. It's just a little strange to see that serious, future-gazing profile typically given to images of Asian leaders to Steve Jobs.

I'm wondering if an Apple Store in India (is there one in India? Will there be?) will soon have a Steve Jobs Ganesha...that'd be cool! One Apple product in each hand. :cool:
 
yeah, it's great news for Apple, and fans. but unfortunately, most Chinese people can't afford to buy mac in there. you don't know how much people earn over there. so unlikely most countries, Apple is not for everybody. it's shame to tell you that communist (socialism) screws everything up. I assume that there will be additional policy government will attach on Apple store. who knows? someday, they will push it like Google so that all good companies will have to move out of this country. by the way, unlikely other countries, sale on Apple products will not be pretty as much as we expect. I think that it is just a symbol that Apple launched their flagship store in another country in Asia. yeah, we know China is big. but consumer system is hard.
 
Pudong store is located below ground level and utilizes the glass tower as an iconic entryway with a glass stairway descending to the store below

Eloi heading into the Morlock underground caverns. :p
 
ArkhamNative said:
I still find it fascinating that Apple (western?) trademarks are presented in a completely non-native alphabet. Imagine the western consumer seeing the 佳能 or キャノン EOS Rebel on the western shelves. :eek:
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From what I can tell, this is pretty common in Chinese (at least among actual people; I'm sure the government's official position, as if they could control language, would be to Chinese-ify everything--in fact, there are "official" terms for words like "e-mail" that, at least according to my Chinese teacher, nobody actually uses).

Addionally, the US is unusual in being one of only a handful of countries where monolingualism is predominant. Further, the Roman/English alphabet, more or less, is used in the official Romanization scheme for Chinese, Pinyin. For both these reasons, English letters and even words aren't toally unfamilar to most Chinese; I don't think it's as unusual as one might suspect (unlike what would happen if a book in the US were entitled something like "哈利波特").

Of course there are also phonological and orthographic difficulties in "transliterating" a brand into Chinese, although I suppose at least the phonological ones must be confronted anyway. (Many Chinese-ifications are made by putting together characters that form some sort of sensible word/phrase that sounds vaguely like the original, like "Měi​guó​" 'beautiful country' for "America" or "kě​kǒu​kě​lè​" for "Coca Cola," slightly nonsensical but containing "mouth" and "happy." This is as opposed to things like "diàn​zǐ​yóu​jiàn​​" for 'e-mail,' which is semantically faithful; however, I've been told that among actual people, "yī​ mèir​" is far more popular. Of course, you can only do the former for things that mean something in the first place...)
 
I've been told one of the reasons the roman alphabet is used for product names is that you can style words with a font - with pictogram characters that is more difficult.

It sounds plausible anyway.
 
archurban said:
yeah, it's great news for Apple, and fans. but unfortunately, most Chinese people can't afford to buy mac in there. you don't know how much people earn over there.
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Evidently, you don't either. You are waaaaay behind the times. Read this article about what young, modern Chinese women expect a guy to be able to afford if they're even going to consider him boyfriend material.

Then read this article about what Chinese visitors think of how average Americans live.

We here in the west are actually looking pretty poor to those living in modern, China, especially those from cities like Shanghai.
 
archurban said:
yeah, it's great news for Apple, and fans. but unfortunately, most Chinese people can't afford to buy mac in there. you don't know how much people earn over there. so unlikely most countries, Apple is not for everybody... I think that it is just a symbol that Apple launched their flagship store in another country in Asia. yeah, we know China is big. but consumer system is hard.
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Most US people can't afford Mac products (not that it stops anybody from using credit and such). China won't be much different. People will find a way to purchase the products they want.

This is certainly evidenced by Apple planning to add 24 (!) more stores in China in the next 18 months. Think about that, over one store each month! *Somebody* will be buying the products.
 
zeromeus said:
On a second note, it's a good thing those are translucent glass and not transparent... imagine all the perverts who just hand around the lower level or the store just to get a "view."
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Happens in the 5th Ave NYC store all the time. Seriously. Every time I've been there (only 15 times or so) there have been guys sitting below watching the women in dresses or short skirts come down.
 
I love the design of the new store, all underground. The ones we have here are generic looking, I wish they would put a unique Apple store in every state.
 
thirteen1031 said:
Evidently, you don't either. You are waaaaay behind the times. Read this article about what young, modern Chinese women expect a guy to be able to afford if they're even going to consider him boyfriend material.

Then read this article about what Chinese visitors think of how average Americans live.

We here in the west are actually looking pretty poor to those living in modern, China, especially those from cities like Shanghai.
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Intersting articles.

Frugality is a virtue. Many cultures in the world have forgotten about frugality. Debt is overrated, I beleive.
 
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