“Twelve rounded glass panels stand over 12.5 meters (41 feet) to form the cylindrical dome,” Areddy reports. “Inside, the computer maker’s distinctive bitten-apple logo is suspended above a glass stairway that corkscrews into the underground retail space. The atrium foyer is also a crystalline sign of the times: It was made entirely in China, establishing a fresh benchmark on workmanship for the world’s largest glass industry.”
“As Apple embarks on a major China retail expansion, not least of the reasons for it to source locally is the nation’s tax of up to 30% on certain glass imports. And of course, China already has a role making its iPhone and iPad,” Areddy reports. “Fabricator Beijing North Glass Safety Glass Co. got the nod for Shanghai after cutting its teeth on less complex Apple store projects in New York and Beijing.”
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Not to worry. They’ll be looking for cheap labor in the U.S. before long.
“Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, took a personal interest in the Shanghai project — his name appears on patents for glass stairways used in some shops.”
Is there anything Steve can’t do? Who knew he was a glass artist too?!
@C1 LOL.
(Are you baiting our TeaBagging buddies, perchance?)
The Chinese will only want skilled labor. As long as they need workers to staff Starbucks and McDonalds, the US will be the place to poach workers.
Hell, who needs an edjumacation, when there’s the TeeVee and fast food?
Steve’s name appears on all of Apple’s glass staircase patents from the very first.
Mr. Reeeeeeee & C1. Yeah the teachers’ unions have destroyed education in the USA. Vouchers for all.
And the country with no honor.
Copying and ripping off IP like mad. The last thing China invented themselves was Nodles. After that they lost their creativity and went of to copy others because they got no honor.
Nodles?
The Japanese and Korean are also copycats initially and their products were as crappy as the commodity computers. Not now, they are the leaders in many areas of technology. Don’t snub the Chinese. Historically, the Chinese have been very original and creative and their noses will follow where the money is. Ignore it at your own peril. You should chastise your own fellow politicians, leaders and ivory-tower academicians instead, who think nobody will catch up with them and who blatantly gave away all the nation’s jewels. America is in great trouble. Once they were number ones in every aspect but now they are dropping to the bottom. Can America rise to the occasion? I doubt it – bad attitudes, hedonistic and superiority complex are some of the ineptitudes that have done American in.