December 8, 2024
PRESS RELEASE
Apple publicizes Apple Retail growth within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The firm can be increasing the student Apple Foundation Program to boost studying alternatives for extra college students on the Apple Developer Academy
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA Apple at this time introduced plans to develop within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, beginning with the launch of the Apple Store on-line in summer season 2025. The on-line retailer will carry clients throughout Saudi Arabia new methods to buy Apple’s full vary of merchandise, with distinctive service and assist immediately from Apple in Arabic for the very first time.
Starting in 2026, Apple will start opening the primary of a number of flagship Apple Store places in Saudi Arabia. These retail shops will supply clients within the nation much more methods to attach with Apple’s knowledgable staff members and discover the proper services and products. As a part of this growth, Apple is within the preliminary levels of planning an iconic retail retailer coming to Diriyah, a UNESCO World Heritage website.
“We’re excited to be increasing right here in Saudi Arabia with the launch of the Apple Store on-line subsequent yr, and the primary of a number of flagship Apple Store places beginning in 2026, together with an iconic retailer on the beautiful website of Diriyah coming later,” mentioned Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Our groups are wanting ahead to deepening our connections with clients, and to bringing the perfect of Apple to assist individuals throughout this nation discover their passions, construct their companies, and take their concepts to the subsequent degree.”
Whether on-line, in-store, or within the Apple Store app, Apple gives actually distinctive and personalised experiences for purchasers to check and discover the best product; select from a wide range of financing and cost choices; and get arrange with their new machine — all with the assistance of Apple’s unbelievable staff members.
Apple’s retail growth builds on its present investments and actions within the nation. This contains the area’s first Apple Developer Academy, which opened in Riyadh in 2021 in partnership with the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Tuwaiq Academy, and Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University.
The all-women Apple Developer Academy positioned at Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University gives world-class coaching for aspiring coders, designers, and entrepreneurs, getting ready them for careers within the nation’s vibrant app economic system. Nearly 2,000 college students have accomplished programming programs by way of the academy, and are actually publishing their apps on the App Store for each home and international audiences.
Apple continues to boost studying alternatives by way of its academy applications and partnerships. This summer season, Apple hosted the nation’s first coed Apple Foundation Program. This monthlong course introduced collectively college students from throughout the nation to study the basics of coding and app improvement, with a concentrate on gaming. Apple plans to additional develop the student Foundation choices, with the subsequent cohort deliberate for spring 2025.
Apple Developer Academy graduates usually are not alone in pursuing careers within the nation’s thriving iOS app economic system. The Saudi developer group is a strong power for financial progress, supporting jobs throughout the nation at corporations giant and small. And the app economic system is rising at a fast tempo as extra coders, entrepreneurs, and creators make the most of the App Store and Apple’s many developer instruments to enter the market. Since 2019, earnings for builders in Saudi Arabia are up over 1,750 %.
Apple continues to take a position throughout Saudi Arabia, spurring job creation and bringing new applied sciences to artists, entrepreneurs, small enterprise house owners, and commuters. Over the previous 5 years, Apple has spent greater than 10 billion SAR with corporations throughout the nation. And Apple companies assist energy companies throughout Saudi Arabia. With the opening of the brand new metro earlier this month, Riyadh is the newest to hitch the record of over 250 cities the place customers can experience transit with Apple Pay. Riyadh can be the primary metropolis within the Middle East the place customers can experience the metro and buses with Express Mode, a seamless and safe solution to faucet and pay for transit by merely holding an iPhone or Apple Watch close to a reader — no must wake and even unlock the machine. Apple Pay gives safety and comfort, and since its launch in Saudi Arabia in 2019, many Saudi clients have stopped utilizing their plastic playing cards totally.
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