Apple Marina Bay Sands Opens Thursday in Singapore

Am I misremembering, or was this some kind of museum building before? Or was it specially built by Apple? Whatever it is, pretty amazing looking.

But what a shame, you can't even fantasize about going to see places any more without a little bit of stress/uncertainty right now. 17 hour flight? 2 week quarantine on arrival? ok...

Anyway, I'm also interested to know how Apple (or other similar retail) decides to put a store somewhere. Is it a straight potential mobile subscriber $ figure, or population disposable income within-x-radius kind of thing? Is it the same threshold across countries? Must be a ~$10M investment to build a store like this. Worth 10,000 customers?

With the modern interior design of Apple stores I feel the designers are actually so out of touch with the rest of the society and so firmly in their own bubble that they're accidentally designing something that looks extremely tacky without realizing.

I believe they described it as being a "town square" so we have the trees and the benches but I'm going to propose they have accidentally designed something that looks more like a cheap mall food court without realizing it because they probably haven't even seen a mall food court since their childhood. Almost feels like it has the same logic behind how mall food courts were designed, make the unnatural feel natural, add trees, add a nod to the affordances of community with benches around the trees.

Honestly couldn't believe how tacky it looked when I walked past the main Apple store in London.

“the first Apple Store to sit directly on the water. ”

Lies! I once bought a mac onboard a ship in the early 2000s.

:)

Is that the navy where they attack 3rd party repair people from? Is there anybody left who thinks Apple is cool because they have shiny buildings ?