The Apple Store app (not to be confused with the App Store) turned ten in June, can you imagine? It's hard to believe the shopping app was introduced a decade ago so the company is celebrating the occasion with a fun Easter egg that activates a virtual surprise party.
Apple's gift card situation hasn't always been the easiest, with two distinct options for customers who are looking to buy something. But now the company is streamlining things.
Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Apple has been forced to keep many of its physical retail stores closed. That also means that many programs hosted in the physical retail locations have been shut down and/or suspended, including Today at Apple.
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage on, especially in the United States, Apple (along with other companies who haven't been so lucky) has been forced to strategize a great deal when it comes to re-opening (or re-closing) its physical retail stores in the U.S.. Now, a new report sheds light on that strategy.
Apple Sanlitun opened as Apple's first brick-and-mortar store in China in July 2008 at Beijing’s Taikoo Li Sanlitun mall. Today, it was replaced by Apple's massive new flagship store.
After Apple last week re-closed nearly a dozen retail stores in the United States, local increases in coronavirus infections have now prompted the Cupertino company to shut down again eight of its retail locations in Kansas, Maryland, Virginia and Wisconsin.
In light of everything changing due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, which has forced so many to start working from home, Apple continues to evolve its own plans as it relates to its physical retail stores and offices located in the United States.
Apple is reportedly re-closing nearly a dozen additional retail locations in the United States, bringing its total store re-closures in the country to 91.
Apple has offered the ability to reserve a time slot in a given day to help with repairs and other service questions at its physical retail stores for years, and now it's expanding the same idea to help customers shop for products.
In the United States, the coronavirus continues to spread, in some states worse than others. And, in light of changing conditions, Apple has been forced to re-close some stores it had re-opened after initially closing them due to COVID-19 concerns.
Microsoft is permanently closing all of its physical stores worldwide after it was forced to close all its retail locations globally back in May due to the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak.
The Apple Store closures continue as the spread of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19, the disease it causes, continues in the United States.