First Pictures of Saigon Apple Store
TUAW reader Danh Nguyen was kind enough to post these photos of the new Apple retailer in Saigon, the first of its kind in Vietnam. I am not sure what "Chuc Mung Khai Truong" means, but I'll take a wild guess that it might mean "Apple Showroom". Any Vietnamese speakers who can translate, please jump right in. The sign reads "Congratulations on [the]opening [of] your Apple store showroom".
A big thank you to Danh Nguyen.
Update: Readers are correct. This is an authorized Apple retailer. Original TUAW post.
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TUAW reader Danh Nguyen was kind enough to post these photos of the new Apple retailer in Saigon, the first of its kind in Vietnam. I am...
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Hi, its possible to fix an Ipod Nano in the new Aple store of Saigon? If not, sombody knows where i can do it?
Thank you very much.
Chachi
Those Mac Pro machines do not have white sides, that is the glare from the lighting.
I think it is great that there are more Apple authorized stores, but that doesn't make them Apple Stores.
The first thing that came to my mind was: Helveticaâor worse, Arial.
May 19 2007 at 11:18 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply@Jeffler
Whoops, glossed over the Canada stores and looked straight at the ones in the UK / Japan.
Anyway, my point still stands. Before Apple would open an official store in Vietnam there are quite a few others to consider that would likely be much more profitable.
Most of the Apple resellers in SE Asia are subsidiaries of a Singapore company. There are Apple like reseller stores in Kuala lumpur, Bangkok, Chiang Mai and probably a few other places. They do a decent job and if you need to return a product under Apple Care then they ship thru Singapore. These stores are Apple Authorized repair service.
Vietnam for those who don't know is booming economically and growing faster than China.Saigon which everyone calls Ho Chi Minh city(HCMC) and the northern capital of Hanoi are rapidly becoming expensive places to live. If you watch ranking indexes of cost of living for foreign executives they you will see HCMC is in the top 10 most expensive cities in the world. A lot of that is because of Govt control of housing which greatly reduces the availability for rent etc. If you could rent free market its still a very cheap and fun place to live.
FPT is also an authorized distributer in Saigon. I visit this store about a month ago. It is NOT an official Apple Store.
By the way, this store is located in Saigon's 'Wall Street' area, a good spot.
diulei, there are apple stores in Canada.
Hell, there are 3 in Toronto alone.
Love that Apple, maybe it's not an official one, but it's a good sign ^-^
May 17 2007 at 11:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWe still do not have any Apple Store in Hong Kong :(
May 17 2007 at 7:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHey ... I'm from the Philippines... nobody seems to notice the new apple store here.
I mean Saigon opens a token store and it gets posted here...but one big store opens here in the Philippines and nobody notices.
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