The Fifth Avenue Apple Store was recognized for its big and boxy design - something that to us hearkened back to the classic Power Mac G4 Cube and was echoed by several other Apple Stores, including San Francisco’s Market Street location - Apple took the all-glass aesthetic to China with a different geometry, replicating the same concept in a huge glass cylinder instead that also served as the entryway to an underground store. and two in Canada back then) to 511 stores in 25 countries, and now it’s already getting ready to open its 512th, which promises to be perhaps even more unique than the NYC cube store - this time in Singapore. Since then of course Apple has expanded from 147 stores in only four countries (there were six in each of Japan and the U.K. It also had the largest staff of any Apple Store back then. It was the 147th Apple Store at the time, and the first Apple retail location to be open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Steve Jobs actually opened the new store personally on almost a year before the debut of the original iPhone. To be clear, the classic New York location has been around for such a long time it’s hard to remember when it first opened. If you thought that Apple’s Fifth Avenue Store in New York City was exciting with its giant towering glass cube, that’s old hat now as the company has just outdone itself with its first floating Apple Store.
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