Appleinsider Pays a Visit to Taiwan

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Daniel Eran Dilger, Inside Greater China: An Exclusive Look at Apple Inc in Taiwan. appleinsider, Mar 4, 2015.
appleinsider.com/articles/15/03/05/inside-greater-china-an-exclusive-look-at-apple-inc-in-taiwan

Note:
(a) "I spent a week in Taiwan, largely in Taipei, a city of 2.7 million people within a metropolitan area of 6.9 million. That makes Taipei about as populous as Chicago, but much more dense as it covers less than half the land area of America's third largest city."
(i) Taiwan
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan
(Area: Total 36,193 km2 /13,974 sq mi)
(ii) Taipei  臺北市 (not including 新北市)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei
(Area: [Land] 271.7997 km2 (104.9425 sq mi) AND Water 2.7 km2 (1.0 sq mi)  1.0%)
(iii) Chicago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago
(Area: City 234.0 sq mi (606 km2), which includes Land 227.2 sq mi (588 km2) AND Water 6.9 sq mi (18 km2) [or] 3.0%)

(b) "Despite a national population nearly as large as Texas [2010 census 25.1m; 2014 estimate 26.96m; from Census Bureau], Taiwan [23m] doesn't yet have any official Apple Retail stores (Texas has 18). Taipei itself has a population greater than Hawaii [2010 census 1.36m], which currently has three Apple Stores. Taiwan has a slightly higher population than Australia [2010 census 21.6m; Mar 6, 2015 estimate 26.77m; Australian Bureau of Statics], which has 21 Apple Stores. Japan has 5.4 times the population of Taiwan, but boasts 8 Apple Retail stores. That indicates Apple has lots of potential for deploying new stores in Taiwan (and Japan)."
(c) Linkwell Industry Co, Ltd  霖源科技

(d) "Taipei's Guang Hua Digital Plaza, known as the 'nerd mall'"
(i) 光華數位新天地 or 光華商場
(ii) Google "nerd mall" and one will find it in various nations but not in Taiwan. Apparently English speakers confer the title to foreign lands.
(iii) Taiwan does not have an equivalent to "nerd mall" in Chinese language.

(e) "Samsung also has to pay for all of its own advertisements, and did so in massive banners like this one at Zhongxiao Fuxing Station"

Zhongxiao Fuxing Station 忠孝復興站
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhongxiao_Fuxing_Station
(Taipei Metro; Type[:]  Underground/Elevated)

The station name comes from intersection of the two thoroughfares.