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Apple just launched their first store in Pakistan in Lahore in a partnership with Raffles Computers. The store is called "iRaffles". The US Ambassador to Pakistan inaugrated the "Apple Computers store" last week.
The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Dailytimes have scant details.
They’re not correct in saying that this is the first unofficial Apple store to open in Pakistan - there are many dozens of authorized apple resellers that have sprouted up everywhere in the country and usually have the latest gadget within 3 days of a macworld or other launch event.
Still - does anyone have details or pictures or their experience to share? If so - fire away in the comments.
Thanks Mudassir for the tip!
| Written by Osama A. on 05/8/08 in General |
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May 8th, 2008 at 10:02 am
I have visited the store, its located between Mini Market and Main Market, before Mobilink main office. Well, its not comparable to Apple Stores, the fame they and the rave they share, but its a nice effort. Honestly, there wasn’t anything new for me as I’m already a mac user and through shophive have almost seen the whole apple/mac universe we can offer to people in Pakistan.
Well, on the plus points you can check out the New Macbook AIR - its really thin and light. And there is definitely no Iphone there to play with , as its not authorized for our part of the world yet!
May 8th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
technically its not Apple store. they are premium Apple resellers. But they do have almost all the Apple products, including a lovely Mac Book Air
May 8th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
But that’s the point though - I can get and see a Macbook Air on any local apple resellers (there are 4 official resellers at a 5-min drive from where I live, and one of them has a pretty nice showcase too).
Why is this store getting the hype then?
May 8th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
because Raffles has a dedicated PR team perhaps?
May 8th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Researching Apple for starting development on iPhone SDK, it just seems they make it very hard for a non-Mac world person to enter the Mac world.
May 8th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
adnan: you can use toolchain for windows to develop applications for iphone but to use the full suite of tools that give you full and rich debuging and dev experience you need to have a mac..
its pretty much same as developing apps for windows mobile devices
I have been working on iPhone app for a while now and their SDK is very neat and getting mature now.. its a fun little device
May 9th, 2008 at 1:50 am
I have heard a vmware/virtualbox installation sort of works - and I think a Hackintosh (!tm) would probably let you play with the SDK.
Adnan: if you figure out a way to make it work with a PC, please do let us know here.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:25 am
Anyone from that area should submit the picture of that store, that would be nice too!
Mudassir Azeemi
San Francisco, CA
May 10th, 2008 at 12:49 am
what is the price of iphone 8gb at iraffles!
May 10th, 2008 at 9:39 am
I do not know there are two stores or one.
The store is in PACE Lahore. I visited last day it was not a very big one like of Apple standard but it is a good effort to put Apple on display. I will share the picture with you guys very soon.
The store name is iStore and according to store management MD Apple inaugurated it. I have their card with me you can contact Mr. Atif Afzaal (Cell: 0333-4287818) for more details as he is managing the Lahore operations ..
Isn’t it really coool!