It was a very happy New Year for Apple’s App Store. Owners of iOS devices made New Year’s Day the biggest sales day ever for the App Store, logging $300 million in purchases, the gadget giant said in a statement Thursday. That sales total is 25 percent …
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App Store kicks off 2018 with record-breaking holiday season
“We are thrilled with the reaction to the new App Store and to see so many customers discovering and enjoying new apps and games,” said Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “We want to thank all of the creative app …
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Apple just shared some staggering statistics about how well the App Store is doing
Apple announced new App Store statistics on Thursday. It revealed for the first time that over half a billion iPhone and iPad users visit the App Store every week. Apple has an annual tradition in early January of announcing how well its App Store is doing.
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Apple planning new Toronto store at Yonge & Bloor [u]
Apple appears to be working on a new street-level store in Toronto, Canada, based inside an 85-story condominium at the corner of Yonge and Bloor, not far from Queen’s Park and the Royal Ontario Museum. [Updated with corrected stats] The condominium, still …
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Flagship Apple Store Possibly Still Planned at Yonge-Bloor in Toronto
Canada’s most populous city may eventually be home to a flagship Apple retail store at one of its busiest intersections. A render of what The One will look like upon completion MacRumors has learned that Apple has been labeled in a planning document for …
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Apple blames smart roof software bug for blunder that caused Chicago store to dump snow and ice on surrounding areas
Last week, Apple’s flagship retail store in Chicago made headlines after it appeared to suffer at the hands of its own design flaws. After a build-up of ice and snow caused treacherous conditions around the Macbook-inspired roof with slanted edges, parts …
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Apple ‘re-programmed’ the roof on one of its stores because it had an ice problem
Apple built a gorgeous new Apple store on Chicago’s waterfront this year. It has beautiful glass walls and a roof that looks like an Apple laptop, and a press release published when the store opened in October called it one of “Apple’s most significant …
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California’s newest drug dealers: like an Apple Store, but with weed
The dispensary in West Hollywood looks more like an Apple Store than a place to score drugs. No tinted windows. No burglar bars. No beefy security guards. Instead, one of the half-dozen or so “bud-tenders” in identical company T-shirts scrolls on an iPad …
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Oops! Apple’s fancy new flagship store in Chicago beset with problems because the roof wasn’t designed to handle all the snow that falls in the ‘Windy City
First pointed out by Matt Maldre in his blog Spundart, the Chicago store garnered earlier attention for its roof which was designed in the shape of a Macbook, even emblazoning an Apple logo on top – just like on the actual devices. However, architects seem …
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Apple retail in 2017: A look at every store opened, closed, and remodeled
2017 was an incredibly active year for Apple retail, as the company’s refreshed store design continued its rollout across the world. As the calendar comes to a close, let’s take a look at every store location opened under the guidance of Apple’s …
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Apple Store designers appear to have forgotten about Chicago winters
But it seems this Apple Store may have truly been designed in California because it’s not built to handle Chicago’s snow and ice. While opening to much acclaim earlier this year, the design of Apple’s new flagship store in Chicago apparently did not …
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Apple Store Chicago Was Not Made For Winters: Design Flaw Forces Closure Of Community Areas
The recently opened flagship Apple Store in Chicago, with its MacBook Pro-inspired carbon fiber roof, was apparently designed without the city’s chilling winters in mind. The design flaw has forced the closure of community areas that the Apple Store itself …
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Chicago Apple store’s snow, ice hazards call for ‘fine-tuning’
Looks like Apple has gotten caught with its California roots showing. The Silicon Valley tech giant’s flagship store in Chicago, which opened in October, was designed with a range of architectural bells and whistles — except perhaps more consideration for …
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Apple’s New Flagship Store Not Designed To Handle Chicago Winters
CHICAGO, IL — The normally-sleek, elegant new Apple flagship store in downtown Chicago is now surrounded with yellow caution tape and signs warning people to watch for falling snow and ice. Dangerous icicles were seen hanging from the store’s roof early …
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Who Designed Apple’s Flagship Store in Chicago? Apparently, It Can’t Take the Cold
Chicago’s new Apple store can’t seem to handle the frigid temperatures which have been hitting many parts of the country. Photos captured outside the flagship store—which opened its doors to the public on October 20—show large icicles hanging from …
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Chicago’s Apple Store was designed in California — where they don’t have ice
While it is true that some parts of the city may see less snow than others, the fact is, snow should have been factored into the design of this structure. The Michigan Avenue Apple Store in Chicago is probably one of the best looking store designs in the city.
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Chicago Apple store not designed for snow
The Apple Store in Chicago, designed with a roof that mimics a flat MacBook Pro laptop, wasn’t designed to handle snow and much of the building has been roped off.
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