The Apple Store

[Hector]

Just keeps getting bigger...and bigger...

Apple Takes a Bite Out of Retail as Stores Turn 10 - Yahoo! Finance

[Cmonster]

Apple, google and ebay will own the world soon.

SC

[toys2cool]

Apple, google and ebay will own the world soon.

SC

no doubt

[johnmiic]

I welcome our Apple overlords.

[Mawni]

We just got a new lappy. Fun!

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

Yay Apple.

[noelani72]

Apple products are awesome and personal devices will continue to rule the market. I have been an iPod and iPhone user for years...recently got into iPads and Mac OSX.
Having that said, and as part of my job - working with Apple to get these into education, their managment, corporate group are theeee most arrogant sons of *&%% I have EVER, EVER dealt with. They think their poop doesn't stink and flaunt it in your face.
Our school district has pulled business from other vendors for FAR less than what Apple has done to us recently...but, it's freaking iPad mania right now.

[megoscott]

I remember when they were the underdogs. Now they are the overlords.

[palitoy]

After years of resisting, I am now training on a MAC for school. This lead me to visit my first Apple store recently, it was a circus, I got scared and ran away.

[boss]

Apple, google and ebay will own the world soon.

SC

they'll own it briefly and then screw up like all big companies do leaving the door open for somebody new to take over.

[megoapesnut]

After years of resisting, I am now training on a MAC for school. This lead me to visit my first Apple store recently, it was a circus, I got scared and ran away.

Our closet Apple Store is pretty tame. It gets busy, but never that you can't walk in it. I was just there two days ago. I had a slight buggy problem with my iPhone. They took a look at it and promptly pulled a new one out of the box and swapped my SIM card. I was out the door in under 10 minutes. You just don't get service like that anywhere.

[samurainoir]

There was a time in my life where hanging out with the boys meant jumping in the car and going to Montreal to party at a rave.

Now the only time my buddies seem to call to do something is when they come in from the 'burbs so that we can line up at obscenely early hours on Saturday mornings for whatever they happen to be releasing at the Apple store... usually accompanied by a free t-shirt. Then we get a sandwich at the Pickle Barrel.


Love the Apple Store in New York. That is a pretty cool elevator. Usually I make an afternoon of doing the Apple store and that big toy store, after grabbing lunch in the Trump building.

[megoscott]

It's a dangerous place to go into. I visited one in LA last month and it took 3 weeks for my iPad and iPhone lust to subside.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

Harsh language alert; but this still sums it up for me:

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse....gi?u=macs_cant

Don C.

[Adam West]

In college (and I'm going back 20+ years) did a whole case study on Apple. My basic argument for Apple's success rested on Steve Jobs and at the time they were donating gobs of computers to schools which would get the younger generation used to using Apple computers and its OS which in turn would cause the kids at the time to continue using Apple as an adult. At the time; I never considered Microsoft as a serious threat or the power of an open OS. I watched Apple stock drop to single digits (Forrest Gump wouldn't have been happy) and wondered what went wrong. Our family doesn't own any Apple products (my daughter did have an iPod but she lost it) so nothing. She is constantly asking for an Apple laptop even though she has an HP which tells me that this is a perception similar to owning a Chevy vs a Mercedes. When Apple stock tanked; I never thought that I would ever be talking about my college project again.