“Ahead of the summer Olympics, Apple on Saturday will open the doors to its first retail store in China, a glass-enclosed high-profile shop situated in Beijing’s newest retail development: the Village at Sanlitun,” Sam Oliver reports for AppleInsider.
“Keeping with his tradition of attending Apple’s gala international retail launches, our friend Gary Allen from ifoAppleStore has made the grueling journey across the Pacific to be on hand for tomorrow’s grand opening at 10:00 a.m.,” Oliver reports.
“Allen reports that Apple’s space within the Sanlitun complex ‘is nearly invisible from the street,’ because it sits within the center’s inner courtyard. ‘But once you see it, it’s impressive — a three-story glass façade covering two visible floors, and a level covered with stainless steel,'” Oliver reports.
“A large overpass reportedly caps off the store, funneling patrons to and from other portions of the shopping center. The overpass itself is covered with stainless steel and punctuated with a back-lit Apple logo near center mass,” Oliver reports. “According to Allen, a crowd of over 110 people had queued up in an enclosed space just to the left of the store as of midnight Saturday morning local time.”
Full article with photos here.
That’s pretty nice right there!
It’s amazing how far China has come so quickly. I’m happy for them, but I just wish their advances hadn’t come at our expense. I guess that’s the drawback of capitalism.
why is “genius bar” written in english? shouldn’t it be in chinese? at least use engrish!
Sir Gill Bates It’s not a drawback of capitalism but it’s a drawback of an oppressive government.
Mac4lfe,
“it’s a drawback of an oppressive government.”
Theirs or ours?
Sir Gill Bates
I agree with you 100% ( I think its ours).
Crazylegs, you made my day!
Look Apple opens up another PATHETHIC store. No one cares about Mac’s! Not like theres anything special about them. They make SHITTY computers and lies to people that they are better while they AREN’T.
Man, that was the most pathetic flame I have ever seen.
You just can’t find good trolls these days.
@Crazy Legs and Chuck U Farley….
Simple question…
Do you speak Chinese? (or any other furen langage for that matter)?
Denigration of people who have made an attempt to communicate with you in a language with which they are not completely conversant is truly a sign of congenital stupidity.
Many people in China have taken the time to learn several languages , so as to be better communicators with visitors. how many people in America do that? Or do you still think that shouting will make you better understood?
Oh, and why is Genius Bar in English? Because it is the store design. There are brochures in English and Chinese that explain all of the areas of the store.
@ MizuInOz
Pull ya head in and stop being a dag.
Crazy Legs and Chuck U Farley were not denigrating anyone.
Some of the best are not always mistranslations of Asian to English, but also from French, German, Spanish amongst others including Asian to Asian and … OUR translation of Asian into English or French, German, Spanish and others.
Whatever it’s all funny.
Hey, what’s that Photoshop filter that removes sand (storm) and smog from my pictures. I have bunch of pictures taken in Beijing and they need some editing. Even the paper prints, that were developed in Beijing, leave some sand on my table.
Franchement, j’aime voir les langues differentes sur la terre, c’est divesifiant.
Fluent in three, conversant in another three, and considering adding Russian or German – can’t make up my mind. And yet, frankly, I’ve never heard Franchement used in the beginning of a sentence ’till today.
@LIM
It’s the Translation widget.
C’est franchement mauvais?
Tutorials Found at the Beijing Apple Store:
“Using Your iPhone’s Google Maps App To Find The Nearest Dog Meat Vendor”
“How CAD For Mac Can Help You Repel The Huns”
“Writing Your Own iPhone Twitter App – ‘What is Yao Ming Doing Right Now'”
“How Safari And iWeb Can Help You Blog Without Drawing Attention From The Thought Content Police”
“Using Dashboard To Swindle Unsuspecting Olympic Tourists”
“Spotting (and Designing) a Fake iPhone”
Je ne suis pas sûr, mon ami.
If you had read the story about the Beijing Apple Store opening in the Chinese version of the Wall Street Journal, you would have noted some salient facts that correct some of the assertions in postings above:
1. The store is multi-lingual. The staff of the Genius Bar in particular speak several languages. As one poster above noted, there are informational brochures available in the store in both Chinese and English. Why English? It is the language of business, and perhaps the most commonly spoken language in China outside of its native language.
2. While Beijing is notorious for smoggy skies, the current weather there is quite nice. This is also reported in the Wall Street Journal Chinese edition.
3. Making jokes about “Engrish” only shows our arrogance, prejudice and ignorance. We do so at our own peril. Last I checked, we’re getting our asses handed to us in terms of the trade differential between the two countries.
4. @Hit Me Up: As another poster said above, yours was some of the most pathetic phlegm I’ve seen in a while. If you’re going to try to bait the readers and fellow Apple fans here, please step up and do a better job. Some articulation would be nice. Maybe even a salient argument, if you even understand what I just said. Not that we’re worried – like other trolls of your kind, you’ll soon get bored and move on. Losers like you always do.
5. To most of the rest of you: guys, please do something better than being sophomoric with your comments. A little depth of reasoning would be nice. We’re Mac users, fer chrissakes. So next time, please exercise your grey matter when you post. Thanks!
Sir Butt Gas,
If you like ROC so much, why don’t you immigrate to China?
I just read an interesting article in the August ’08 issue of Reader’s Digest about China. It’s about the government tearing down the old neighborhoods (referred to as ‘hutongs’) around Beijing in order to erect new buildings for the Olympics. It’s sad, but it’s done in the U.S. too, using the old eminent domain ploy.
I also read an article online this weekend (can’t remember where) about the Chinese government busing people to a public square and forcing them to watch an execution by firing squad of three dissidents. They said they were terrorists. They are going nuts on anyone who they think might disrupt the Olympics.
China is making great strides, but human rights sure as hell isn’t one of them. Their leaders appear to consider the citizens of China as disposable items. Kind of like we think of toilet paper. I wonder how long that will last.
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why are you all so superficial？
why not come and see how Beijing really looks like？
oh, we are living happily and we feel so sorry that most of you all can only see the world through TV and rumors.