First pictures of Apple's Chinese retail store

Jonny Evans
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July 03, 2008
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 Take a look at these - pictures take both inside and outside of the still under construction Apple Store in Beijing, China.

The store is situated in a mall just near other western brands including Nike, Adidas and Zara.

These images were taken on behalf of French language Mac news website, MacPlus, by one Thibault Metzinger, who notes (according to Google Translate) that Apple is 'Pingo' in Chinese....

Comments (4)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 03, 2008 - 8:42am

Actually, it's "pingguo", the roman phonetic translation of the characters 蘋果, "apple" in Mandarin.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 03, 2008 - 8:43am

But the pronunciation is Mandarin.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 03, 2008 - 4:42pm

the pronunciation in Mandarin is "Ping Guo", which "Ping" is for “苹” and "Guo" is for "果“。

”苹果” is the Simplified Chinese, which is the officially used in Mainland China and in Singapore (Not sure about Malaysia),

whereas "蘋果" is the Traditional Chinese, which is officially used in Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR, also in Taiwan.

Hope this helps.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | July 04, 2008 - 1:41pm

There is nothing simple about "simplified Chinese".