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Chinese activists complain of Apple Store light pollution

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 21st, 2013)

Environmental activist group, Friends of the Earth HK, claims Apple's Causeway flagship store in Hong Kong is a major contributor to light pollution in the area. Apple reportedly runs about 500 lamps and spotlights over night, and the light spills outside of the store into the Hong Kong streets. ...

Apple's first store in South Australia to open on Saturday

by Michael Grothaus (May 21st, 2013)

Apple has announced that its next Apple store will open at Rundle Place Centre in Adelaide, South Australia this Saturday. It will be the first Apple Store in South Australia. This will bring the number of Apple's retail stores in Australia up to 20. Rundle Place Centre is a four-story shopping ...

Apple to re-locate flagship store in San Francisco

by Steven Sande (May 16th, 2013)

Attendees of Macworld/iWorld and WWDC have always known that if they needed an Apple fix during their conference stay, they could walk over to the Apple Store at the corner of Stockton and Ellis streets. The SFGate blog is reporting that the company has submitted plans to open a new flagship store ...

Apple announces 50 billionth app download, contest winner

by Dave Caolo (May 16th, 2013)

Brandon Ashmore from Mentor, Ohio hit the App Store lottery yesterday by downloading the 50 billionth app to be served by Apple's App Store. Namely, it was Say The Same Thing by Space Inch that allowed Brandon to collect his prize, and what a prize it is: an App Store gift card with US$10,000 on ...

Revamped AppleCare means changes for Genius Bar employees

by Michael Grothaus (May 13th, 2013)

When my iPad 3 was acting funny –– and by that I mean a sleep/wake button that would only work on every third press -- I made an appointment at the Genius Bar at my local Apple Store. Fifteen minutes later I walked out with a brand-new replacement iPad. Many readers who have owned a ...

Fifth Avenue Apple Store experiences a water leak

by Mike Schramm (May 8th, 2013)

The Apple Store on New York's Fifth Avenue is a veritable marvel of engineering, with its glass cube leading down into an underground space. But putting the store underground like that makes it more vulnerable to water leaks, and sure enough, that's what's happened earlier today in New York. The ...

iPad commands lion's share of tablet market despite Samsung's gains

by Yoni Heisler (May 2nd, 2013)

The latest Q1 2013 research data from IDC shows that the market for tablets is absolutely booming, growing 142.4 percent year over year. To put that into context, IDC notes that the 49.2 million tablets shipped during the first three months of 2013 is greater than the number of tablets shipped ...

Apple Store app updated with iPhone upgrade notifications

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 24th, 2013)

Apple has pushed out a new update to its Apple Store app for iOS. Version 2.6 will notify you when an item you've ordered has been shipped and delivered. But perhaps the coolest push notification is the one that tells you when your iPhone is eligible for upgrade pricing. The iPhone upgrade ...

Apple drops prices on refurbished second-, third-gen iPads

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 23rd, 2013)

Those of you looking to get your hands on a qualified refurbished iPad might want to check out the Apple store online. Apple has dropped prices on second- and third-generation models. The discounts apply to only the WiFi+3G and WiFi+Cellular models and not the WiFi-only models. Interested ...

iTunes maintains its music download dominance as Amazon plays catch-up

by Yoni Heisler (Apr 17th, 2013)

Nearly 10 years after the iTunes Music Store first opened up for business, iTunes remains the market leader in digital music downloads. According to a research report published by the NPD Group earlier this week, iTunes accounted for approximately 63 percent of all digital music downloads in ...

Scaffolding comes down from first Berlin Apple store

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 17th, 2013)

Next month, Apple will open its first store in Berlin, and in a sign that the completion of the store is progressing as scheduled, today the exterior construction scaffolding has started to come down. AppleInsider got its hands on some of the pictures of the store sans scaffolding and from the ...

GAME in the UK to sell iPads

by Dave Caolo (Apr 5th, 2013)

UK retailer GAME is ready to begin selling iPads. Not just iPads, but a whole army of tablets, each ready to fly into the arms of credit card-wielding consumers. Like other video game / console chains, GAME has struggled a bit as more and more consumers purchase downloadable games it has ...

Apple Store is down (update: back up)

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 5th, 2013)

The Apple Store went down for maintenance at midnight ET. What will the refresh bring? Maybe a surprise or two this April morning. Tipster Daniel was in the middle of buying a book from iPhoto when the upload cut out about halfway through. Thanks for the tip, Daniel, and good luck getting your ...

Apple Brazil cuts price on iPhone 4, iPhone 4S

by Steven Sande (Apr 2nd, 2013)

Brazilian iPhone fans have something to cheer about today. The prices for both the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S have been reduced to a much more reasonable level than before, although they're still much more expensive than the carrier-subsidized phones we're used to here in North America. An 8 GB ...

San Francisco Apple Store to be expanded

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 1st, 2013)

Apple is planning to expand its retail store in San Francisco's Stonestown Galleria, says a report in ifoAppleStore. The Stonestown store is one of Apple's smallest retail stores with a storefront that measures 25 feet wide and a footprint that offers a measly 1,500 square feet of retail space ...