Ondrej Holzman Another Apple Store in China and Turkey, a Watch better than a Rolex, an Indian wedding captured only by an iPhone and a garden bridge in London finally without the involvement of Apple…
The 33rd Apple Store has already opened in China, the third will be in Turkey (January 24)
Apple Store number 30 opened in China on Saturday, January 33. The brick-and-mortar store is located in the port city of Qingdao in the upscale MixC shopping mall (pictured below), which is the largest in China. In MixC there are over 400 fashionable shops, restaurants, cafes and entertainment facilities, including a roller coaster. MixC also features an Olympic-sized ice rink and the most expensive movie theater in China. The Apple Store can easily find its customers here.
A new Apple Store is also planned in Turkey, where, however, only the third Apple store should open. According to the latest news, Apple is set to locate its store in Istanbul's Emaar Square Mall (pictured below), which is still under construction. When it opens, it will offer almost 500 shops and restaurants or a hotel. The two Apple Stories in Turkey so far opened in 2014.
Source: MacRumors (2)
Apple Watch beat Rolex in the battle of luxury brands (January 27)
Analytical firm NetBase measured how often people mention and are satisfied with various luxury brands on social media during 2014 and 2015 (more than 700 million posts were examined), and the watch category was dominated by the Apple Watch. Their success is all the greater because they were the only smart watch in the category and fought with brands like Rolex (which they dethroned), Tag Heuer, Richemont, Curren or Patek Philippe.
The overall first place in the ranking of the best luxury brands was won by Chanel. Apple as a company was fourth, iPhone eleventh and Watch thirteenth. However, unlike previous years, the iPad fell out of the ranking completely.
Source: Cult of Mac
Indian wedding captured by iPhone 6S Plus (January 29)
Award-winning Israeli photographer Sephi Bergerson decided to shoot an Indian wedding in Udaipur with just his iPhone 6S Plus, and the result is amazing. In addition, Bergerson also created an accompanying video explaining how the iPhone changed his life with a photo worth checking out, especially if you're interested in iPhone photography.
Source: Cult of Mac
Apple Could Create Own Shows Exclusively For iTunes And New Streaming Service (29/1)
Apple has reportedly met with television producers and Hollywood studios to discuss the possibility of creating original content to offer exclusively on iTunes. At the same time, Apple would use these materials for its streaming TV service, which it has been preparing for a long time, but so far it has not been able to agree on content with stations such as CBS, ABC, Fox or Disney. The Street however, he writes that if all goes well, he could launch the service in the fall alongside the iPhone 7.
Source: The Street
London Mayor Wants Apple to Help Build Garden Bridge (January 29)
London Mayor Boris Johnson tried to convince Apple to get involved in the construction of the "Garden Bridge" over the River Thames. That is why he traveled to California at the beginning of 2013 and presented the ambitious project to Apple managers, but the company, which relies on precise design and attention to detail when building its stores, was not interested. In the picture below you can see how the Garden Bridge over the Thames should look like.
Source: MacRumors
A week in a nutshell
Most of the talk in the past week was about upcoming new Apple products. In March, we should look forward to the keynote, where it will probably be presented the four-inch iPhone 5SE a new models of straps for Watch watches. The second generation is said to arrive in the fall, but we could still wait in March the new iPad Air 3. We will return to the Watch because of the fact that finally on Friday they also started selling in the Czech Republic.
It was also a key point of the week announcement of financial results. Apple broke records again, but struggles with reduced demand for iPhones and expects iPhone sales to fall year-on-year next quarter they will fall for the first time in history. But at the same time, Tim Cook he hinted, that Apple could become interested in virtual reality. At the beginning of the week, the head of Apple he met, for example, the Pope, but he had to solve problems with the car project at the company. His boss, Steve Zadesky, is gone and it was said to be hiring of new faces suspended, before deciding on the further fate of the project.
