If you happen to wander the courtyard of St. Petersburg’s National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (quite the mouthful), you will now find a giant iPhone. The monument stands about as tall as a fully grown man, and a huge screen displays photos, videos and text about Steve Jobs, the late Apple co-founder.
The monument was just unveiled to the public after the Progress IT Fund held a competition last year [Read More...]
December looks set to be a good month for Apple fans in Russia. Just over a week after the Cupertino company rolled out the iTunes Store there, a local Apple Premium Reseller, re:Store, has announced that the iPad mini will be launching on December 14, the same day Russia will get the iPhone 5. That’s a week earlier than local media have been reporting, but an official date is yet to be confirmed [Read More...]
Apple has flipped the switch on the iTunes Store in a grand total of 56 new countries around the world, including key emerging markets like India. Russia, a country where Apple is expected to hold a small celebration event, also now has access to iTunes music and movies.
The iTunes Store is now available in 119 countries in dozens of currencies. Here’s the full press release from Apple:
MOSCOW—December 4, 2012—Apple® today announced [Read More...]
Apple still has a lot of growing to do in Russia, but the good news is that the iTunes Store may finally be launching there in the coming months. The iTunes Store has not made its way to Russia after all these years mainly due to the country’s pervasive culture of copyright infringement. As part of the company’s continued rollout to new international markets, Apple is reportedly in talks with the Russian [Read More...]
In Russia, the only place to buy Apple products are third-party knock-off Apple Stores like this one.
It’s hard to believe, given how many Apple Stores are constantly opening their doors, but Apple’s only got official retail presence in 13 countries. That’s nothing: a mere 6% of the world. Chances are, then, that unless you live in America or Western Europe, you don’t have easy access to an Apple Store.
Luckily, that’s [Read More...]
The pace at which Apple is continuing its international roll-out of the iPhone 4S is staggering. Although the company hasn’t formally confirmed the launch dates for the new iPhone in Russia and Brazil, local carriers in those nations indicate that December 16th will mark the device’s formal debut. The launches are expected to be somewhat consequential for Apple given the massive populations of Brazil and Russia. Inventory of the product, as you can imagine, is poised [Read More...]
Russia may be among the first nations on earth that Apple’s iPhone 5 looks to conquer upon its release this fall. According to a new report from Bloomberg, which gleans its insights from an RBC Daily report, Apple is reportedly on track to introduce the iPhone 5 in Russia, possibly as early as November, just weeks after the fifth generation device is expected to drop in the US. “Russian cellphone operators are in talks with Apple [Read More...]
Remember MacDefender? It was the first really big piece of malware to hit the Mac operating system, and was a huge problem for Apple’s tech support teams… such a huge problem, in fact, that Apple introduced a self-updating anti-malware database into OS X, which basically killed MacDefender and its variants off. MacDefender worked by tricking users into believing that they’d been infected by malware (which they in fact had — MacDefender’s [Read More...]
