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"The traditionally lovely spring season in Paris (France) will become even sweeter this Friday when the city's third store opens inside Les Quatre Temps shopping center."

Located on level 1 next to the Gap store, the latest edition to the Paris Apple Store family will expand the total to three, and will open up at 9:00am Friday morning.

"Lots of people are wondering whether a touch-based tablet computer that doesn't have a physical keyboard or run a traditional operating system can replace their laptops on the road. So I decided to find out."

And so begins Mossberg's vacation to Paris, sans laptop, to see if he truly can make a working vacation "work" with just his iPad, smartphone and digital camera. For his purposes it worked fine, but it may not be for everyone.

"Chinese Apple fan club members have a new meeting place to talk about Apple in, with the Shanghai Apple Store opening this weekend. Fanatics descend from street level through a 40-foot cylinder, then serenely glide in via glass staircase."

What a fantastic design! The Paris store is also quite nice and more artistic I suppose in the classical sense, but this one I really like.