First official Apple Store to open in UAE, Mall of the Emirates

i hope they come to saudi arabia as soon as possible

some idiot muslim suicide bomber will prolyl destory it.

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Dear Steve Jobs
Millions of customers in the Middle East need Apple support in opening an official store that sells, does maintenance, etc to all Apple products. In the absence of such support, a lot of Apple customers become frustrated due to lack of stores that sells Apple products and accessories. It’s not ideal for Apple customers to pay money, plus taxes for products in Europe while the products are going to be shipped to Middle East anyway. Same thing applies when customers send their Apple products for maintenance to Europe. This is only a sneak peak of the sever difficulties that Apple customers encounter in Middle East when it comes to purchase Apple products or when it comes to maintenance. We have many customers interested in Apple products, but the lack of official stores and support, does discourage customers from putting themselves in such situation while they have other competitive alternatives, more convenient, and they cost less.

Hopefully, your next focus point will be supporting Middle East

We are waiting for the opening of our country
we need for open Apple store in SaudiArabia

How is it an “official apple store” if it’s run by virgin?

The news is wrong this is not First official Apple Store!!
it is just authorized apple dealer.

If its an Apple store, what’s Virgin doing? I know Apple has an office in Abu Dhabi and they would definitely look at Dubai as an option, but I fail to understand the Virgin connection though & btw Virgin Megastore ME is a franchisee of Virgin UK.

Will the pricing be same or not far from the US?

I’m going to leave the same comment that I left at 9to5mac.com.

I’ve been living out in Dubai for around 20 years, and have been a “keen observer of the local Mac scene. It doesn’t make any sense for Apple to directly open a store within a store.

Virgin Megastore out here is run under a what I believe is a franchisee model. The local franchisee has on occasion carried grey market Apple products – iPhone 4 / iPad, when they haven’t been available through official distribution channels. I would not see this happening if Virgin were out here themselves – with their brand to protect.

I’ve been told by Apple’s exclusive distributor – Arab Business Machines (an arm of the Midis Group) that Apple already has an office out in Abu Dhabi.

A job posting that 9to5mac.com links to in it’s post on this issue makes sense. It explicitly states “ensure that Apple Sales Staff & Partner Staff who work in third party stores and Store Staff employed by our key reseller’s”. While I wouldn’t expect the job posting to give it away – this fits in with what I think will probably turn out to be another “Mac store” opened by a reseller.

It would be great to get Apple coming in directly to break up what is a region wide monopoly – but I doubt it’ll happen in retail right away – and definitely not a store within a store.

If anywhere, I’d expect an actual Apple Store at Dubai Mall, possibly on the Avenue that runs through Downtown Dubai, and a far shot as suggested by someone on Twitter – the new mall on Yas Island.

I think IRAN was a better choice for opening an Apple store in Mideast.
but as here said,it’s not an apple store and it’s just a common store for selling apple stuff.

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Hi I am coming into the Dubai Msll on 22/9/2012 I would like to know if you have an applemac with a uk keyboard I would like to buy educational pricing along with cs6 premium web also widows software use disc
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I’m Jay Talle a filipino guy, This my Feedback: I buy two Iphone 4s 16GB & 32GB last month then after one week I upgrade IOS 6 after 3 days my wifi is not working so I decided to go in the store were I buy my phone, then they said that they need to fix my phone in there service center and they change the motherboard of my phone. the question is … it is ok that they change the motherboard of my phone that is under cover of warranty? Please reply because I’m not happy now….

they should give you a new one not repair .they give u new peice

Salam alykum sir i have a problem in my i phone the wifi is not working properly it is works when it near to router but when its go little far the conection makes lost plz do advise what should i do my name is muhammed plz cotact me on this number 0508512342 plz