China's First Apple Store Opening In Time For Olympics

Whenever there’s a big event that’s bound to bring in the tourists, businesses are always looking for a way to make money from the extra crowds and Apple is no exception.

This summer will see the 2008 Olympic Games take place in Beijing, China and Apple announced a few months back that before everything kicks off on the 8th of August, there would be a brick and mortar Apple store in China.

Tomorrow will see the launch of China’s first Apple store in Beijing’s Sanlitun entertainment district.

The store will have a genius bar which will offer services in both Chinese and English as well as offering support in a few other languages.

According to PC World, prior to the iPod, Apple was almost non-existent in China but have since grown more and more popular.

The store will be largely based around the same design as the company’s other store’s except for the multi-lingual Genius bar and the storefront faces a huge video screen playing the "dancing iPod" video.

One huge difference between the Chinese store and most of Apple’s other stores is that there will be no iPhone for the time being. While China is full of iPhones that have been brought in by individuals and jailbroken, there has yet to be an official launch in China and Apple is still in negotiations with Chinese service providers with regard to securing an exclusive provider.

If you happen to be in Beijing go along and check out the new store. It opens for business at 10am local time.