Steve Jobs was a righteous man, blameless in his generation, and Steve Jobs walked with God. According to the Jerusalem Post, this divine partnership will result in Apple building a veritable ark of an Apple Store in Jerusalem.
Measured in the go-to unit for ark building, the new Apple Store would be 185 cubits long and 185 cubits wide, or about 50,000 square feet in size. To put that in perspective, that’s absolutely gigantic: it’s the size of a football field, or about the size of a supermarket with 12-14 aisles. It would be humongous, without a doubt the largest Apple Store on Earth.
Why build such a massive Apple Store in Jerusalem of all places? “Symbolic reasons,” natch. In fact, the Jerusalem Post goes as far as to say that this Apple Store would house the world’s first “Apple Digital Library,” which would be open to the public.
It’s nice to think of an official Apple Store in Jerusalem, but I think we can all agree that a Home Depot sized Apple Store smack dab in the middle of one of the oldest cities on Earth sounds more than a little bit like wishful thinking. Some reporter annoyed with not being able to get an iPad 2 through Apple’s official Israeli reseller, iDigital, perhaps?
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
16 responses to “Report: Apple To Build 50,000 Square Foot Retail Store In Jerusalem”
Well Jerusalem has a historic value and that’s so Occult to build such a gigantic store in it
Hark! Cometh now the rebuilding of the Temple of Jerusalem!
I doubt they are planning on putting this store in the Old City, which is a very small portion of Jerusalem. Jerusalem is certainly large enough for an Apple Store, and has enough relatively cosmopolitan areas where they could put one. Thinking that this would be next to the Temple Mount is like thinking that an Apple Store in Rome would be built in Vatican City.
finally! a place where all faiths can worship
finally! a place where all faiths can worship
Am I the only one worried about this thing being a magnet for a marketplace bombing? Perhaps they’ve envisioned some type of security to reduce that kind of risk.
Apple better have an app to stop the Israelis from building settlements inside the store.
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