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Shanghai's Apple Store Opens to Large Crowds

zeromeus said:
I would be afraid to walk on those glass stairways... imagine walking on a frozen lake... Yes, I know the glass is strong enough to withstand people walking on them... but it's still scary to imagine the glass shattering as you walk on them...
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Don't worry about the glass. I hear they use a treated glass similar to Gorilla Glass that's many times stronger than plastic. Shouldn't be a problem at all... :)
 
jmor said:
They know they may or may not be very profitable but they want people to have a place besides apple, to look at their products in an environment they feel represents them. They have money to burn and they most likely won't lose money and if they do, it most likely won't be much. Either way they want a place for their fans and they are trying their best to bring a good store into that environment. And they do have multiple stores already planned, my dad traveled to China two weeks ago for a week to do something with the location and whatnot.
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Microsoft opens its fourth retail store in San Diego's Fashion Valley Mall, not just a few doors down from an Apple Store, but also on June 24, the launch day of iPhone 4

Sure seems as if they want to have places where they can sponge customers into their environment, any way possible.

Even if raffling concert tickets and giving away overstock Kins were to be enticing to some small degree, the desperation quotient has never-the-less reached new heights.

LagunaSol said:
I'm sure MS shareholders are thrilled with this strategy. :rolleyes:
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Apparently, not for the past decade.
 
Mctalking said:
funny that I am also lost in finding highly civilized, freedom-rich, and socially tolerant Capitalist nation. Would you please help?
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Germany, GB, Italy, Greece, Canada, Japan, the list goes on. Certainly many EU nations have socialist programs, but they are still economies largely driven by entrepreneurialism and free market practices.

China uses cities like Shanghai to personify a reality that does not exist anywhere but in those cities. Let's just be honest and say they still are not a free and open society where people are allowed to speak their minds in a public forum. If you also live in a country like that it may not bother you because you don't know anything different.
 
jacollins said:
Don't worry about the glass. I hear they use a treated glass similar to Gorilla Glass that's many times stronger than plastic. Shouldn't be a problem at all... :)
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But if you drop it from a height of 12-14 inches, it will break on the third drop
 
DMann said:
Microsoft opens its fourth retail store in San Diego's Fashion Valley Mall, not just a few doors down from an Apple Store, but also on June 24, the launch day of iPhone 4

Sure seems as if they want to have places where they can sponge customers into their environment, any way possible.

Even if raffling concert tickets and giving away overstock Kins were to be enticing to some small degree, the desperation quotient has never-the-less reached new heights.



Apparently, not for the past decade.
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Yes, I actually think that it is nice of them to give away things at openings, just as apple gives out t-shirts, but anyway. Did you know that Microsoft had planned to open that store on that date wayyy before they knew of the iPhone 4 launch and they were not happy that it was the same day actually, they were quite pissed at the timing.
 
T-shirt

Troon said:
I am not sure when i will be back as i am in Scotland right now for family reasons. I’ll ask my mates there to have a look out. It will cost about $6 out the markets max...........Once i am back i will look myself then stick a post up :cool:
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I would like one too? Would it be possible?
 
Made it there Saturday night for the opening, took some crappy iPhone shots of the entrance and underground space. One thing that irked myself and my gf was the acoustics of the interior. It was extremely crowded of course, but sounds were reverberating like crazy inside the space, to the point where my girlfriend felt ill and wanted to leave. Maybe with less people this won't be an issue, but I found it quite unpleasant.

As the iPhone 4 and iPad haven't been officially released in China, they were nowhere to be seen. I think it would have been cool to have a single table reserved for "coming soon" devices, and they could have a few iPads and iPhone 4s for people to play with. Barring that, even a glass display with the newer products would help to create a bit of excitement and anticipation. As it stands, you can go to Mei Luo Cheng and visit the little reseller's kiosks and they have newer products than the Apple store. They're all HK grey market imports of course, but with people already toting iPads around Shanghai, it seems silly that you can't even see one in this flagship store.
 

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jmor said:
Yes, I actually think that it is nice of them to give away things at openings, just as apple gives out t-shirts, but anyway. Did you know that Microsoft had planned to open that store on that date wayyy before they knew of the iPhone 4 launch and they were not happy that it was the same day actually, they were quite pissed at the timing.
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Might it also be a coincidence that each store has been chosen to be geographically located within close proximity to an Apple store?

Perhaps they were pissed about this, as well.
 
Communism or socialism... is only good by name... in practice, it reeks...

guet said:
I find it hard to believe anyone would be so naive, or so manichaean, in their outlook; the ghost of McCarthyism apparently still haunts America.

The communist movement was a reaction to the appalling working conditions in capitalist democracies of the 19C. It was founded on universal rights, the end of the class system, universal education, the right to peaceful assembly etc etc. Things we now take for granted in the West, but which were won after hard struggles here. Rights which, I might add, are now being fought for in so-called communist China - present day China is no more communist than Stalin's Russia. It's interesting that although Marx's predictions of world revolution were way off the mark, his analysis of the contradictions inherent in capitalism are just as applicable as ever.

Just because it was also taken up by many dictators the world over as a convenient excuse for imposing dictatorship or fascism, from Lenin to Mao, does not mean it is the polar opposite of Western democracy - quite the reverse in fact - many of the things we now view as central to our democracies started as radical ideas in movements like early communism.
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These ideologies sound great. That is the reason why people WANT it in the place. However, once it's put into practice and misused by those in charge, it reeks of dictatorship. The communists' main motto is "ignorant people makes governing easy." This is the reason why when the communist first took over any country, they would kill off all the rich and educated people. We all know that rich people are very educated and are extremely powerful when it comes to their ability to lead others. They way you see communism is large industrialized China only reflects their deception in order to be successful with the rest of the world. Go outside of those cities and you get death to anyone who speaks poorly of the government. Just go back and read all about people who were killed for imprisoned for what we can do freely in America... try to assemble and practice your freedom of speech in China... see where that takes you.
 
rsocal said:
I would like one too? Would it be possible?
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What you should do it take a shot of the Tee-Shirt, then take the print to your local tee-shirt printing shop, then ask them to print it on a red tee-shirt.

I am sure there are people on here can use there computer skills to post an exact copy of the print so anyone that wants one can use it as a stencil. That is all the people that make fake clothing do
 
Surely a glass store on ground level would be much more environmentally friendly that a store completely underground? You wouldn't have to use strip lighting, for one thing.
 
anyone able to their hands on a shirt that they'd be willing to sell? I'd shell out for one, pm me if you have one to sell.
 
guess i'm the only person that missed the memo that anybody can work in any kind of job in China


Figured you would need to jump through a ton of hoops to get the visa
 
puffnstuff said:
guess i'm the only person that missed the memo that anybody can work in any kind of job in China


Figured you would need to jump through a ton of hoops to get the visa
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No you don’t.

Get a passport and get out your ZIP/Postcode and see some of the World :eek:
 
Troon said:
No you don’t.

Get a passport and get out your ZIP/Postcode and see some of the World :eek:
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Yeah I have a passport and I have traveled thanks for the concern :rolleyes:


Some countries require a degree, proof that you have money in the bank, or an employee to sponsor you in order to get a visa. Seeing how China is a communist country I assumed their rules were a lot more stringent.

I'm not getting why people are shocked that I thought China has harsh rules. :confused:
 
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