There have been persistent rumors of a future Apple store in Mexico City, but now a confirmation seems to have been posted on-line at a mall developer’s Web site. In a listing of tenants at the TorreMayor building, the tallest in Latin America, there is an entry for “Apple Computers.” The 55-story building is mostly office space, but a large part of the ground floor is reserved for retail businesses. The city qualifies as a ”mega-city” from its estimated population of 19.4 million residents, in second place behind only Tokyo with 35.2 million. Although the country has made some economic strides, especially after a landmark trade agreement with the United States in 1994, it’s still well behind other countries with current or planned Apple stores. The common comparison figure of per-capital GDP shows that Mexico is from 22 percent to 84 percent lower than other countries where Apple has already located retail stores. Even so, the Mexican census agency estimates that 32.6 percent of citizens over 6 years-old are computer users, and 22.2 percent are Internet users. Check the next page for a chart of pertinent facts.
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Hi, this data is kind of wrong. Apple ACTUALLY has their office in this place and has been there for 4 years. The direction that comes with every iPod, iPhone and Mac sold in Mexico is:
” Paseo de la reforma 265, 10 th Floor” (Mexico and Brazil are the only latin countries to have apple official representation and offices).
Thats the actual direction of the Torre Mayor. If you want to prove it you can go to torre mayor official website, then click on “Inquilinos” and you will get the member and office directory.
http://www.torremayor.com.mx/
Now, that doesn´t mean Apple is not planning an Apple Store, rumors are that they are building this Store next to the tower. The store would be in an eight story annex of Torre Mayor. What’s more interesting is that Reichman Internation ( responsible and owner of both The Tower and Anex) has put some images next to the wall where the ANex is building. What is curious is that has an Apple on it ;-)
http://mundomac.org/reichmann-international-incluye-la-apple-store-en-sus-planos.html
And about the demographics of Mexico City, don worry, it has been clasified as the 8th richest city in the World and actually mexico is the only latin american country to have an Apple Online Store
http://store.apple.com/Catalog/US/Images/intlstoreroutingpage.html
The first latin country to have Apple Shops (store inside stores):
apple.com/mx/buy/shop
and is the only latinaamerican country where the iPhone 3G was introduced the same day as the 21 developed countries
http://www.apple.com//iphone/countries/
Greetings
In Torre Mayor in Mexico City is where Apple HQ for Mexico are located. Even as wall some ‘art’ was reflecting Apple logo this has no relation with the Mac maker.