Peek inside Apple's newest retail store

July 26, 2022

Apple's newest retail store looks like a stunner.

Located in a very posh part of London on a busy shopping street that also includes Harrods, the store is massive.

It features a dozen indoor trees beneath a huge arched ceiling. There's a space for classes and talks (which look pretty good) and new plant-based flooring that's debuting in the space.

Intriguingly, the store's opening will coincide with the launch of United Visions, an augmented-reality app based on the strange and hallucinatory works of London poet and painter William Blake.

It looks suitably trippy, and can be downloaded for free here.

-- Leander Kahney, EIC.

Apple previewed its newest U.K. retail outlet Tuesday -- Apple Brompton Road in London’s Knightsbridge neighborhood. The store, set to open Thursday afternoon local time, claims a few “firsts.” They include the first mirrored ceiling in an Apple Store, the first dedicated pickup area in a U.K. Apple Store and the first time Apple has used a certain type of sustainable flooring.

The new SpyBuster iOS app scans your iPhone for other apps that may be surreptitiously sending your data to Russia or Belarus. The privacy-oriented app comes from Ukraine-based developer MacPaw, which released a version of SpyBuster for macOS in the spring of 2021, not long after Russia invaded Ukraine.

Apple’s next quarterly earnings report and call with analysts take place Thursday. (It’s Q3 for Apple’s fiscal year despite being Q2 on your calendar.) And the company already warned it may take a revenue hit of up to $8 billion.

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The 2-in-1 Charging Station with MagSafe is not just “MagSafe-compatible.” It offers your iPhone a full 15W charge and your Apple Watch a 5W charge. And if you want to charge your AirPods case instead of your iPhone, you can.

Apple reportedly had an M1-powered Mac Pro ready to ship months ago but decided against launching it. Instead, the company plans to unveil an M2 Extreme-powered version later this year.

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