I can't believe the long lines to get into the new Apple store in NYC. This shot is pretty cool though. http://www.panoramas.dk/newspanos/f20-apple-store.html
Because it's cool to look at? Dunno...it is open 24/7/365 though. http://www.popgadget.net/2006/05/grand_opening_o.php Apple just opened its newest retail store on New York City’s Fifth Avenue. The new flagship store takes up 10,000 square feet of subterranean retail space located between 58th and 59th Streets in Manhattan, and rubs elbows with some of the major retail giants, Bergdorf Goodman, FAO Schwarz and Trump Towers. It features an innovative and certainly eye catching 32-foot glass cube adorned with just an illuminated logo of Apple Computer. To fit in with the mood of NYC, known as the city that doesn’t sleep, the store will be open 24/7, 365 days a year. Once inside, Apple enthusiasts can get their hands on more than 100 Macs and nearly 200 iPods displayed there for all to try, plus a huge assortment of accessories to tempt even the most jaded users.
Wow. Open 24/7/365! That doesn't seem too efficient for a computer retailer... For a Super Wal-Mart, I can understand, but for an Apple store??!
Apple makes things work somehow..they have a unique product and a hardcore fanbase..that NY store is their flagship and it was the grand opening thats why theres a huge line personally, theres no way in hell I'm gonna attach myself to a consumer product to the point where i'm standing in line
Aren't all Apple brand products already sold at our Galleria Apple store? Does this NY store just have more inventory of these products or do they have stuff that you can't find here?
The whole thing is about how "cool" the store is and location location location. It's in a very very high rent area and doesn't have anything you can't get somewhere else. Supposedly one of their goals is to sell computers to foreigners visiting NYC who have to pay huge markups overseas in their home countries.
I know how that goes. I work at a shoe store at theGalleria and literally half of our sales come from foreigners who are in Houston on business from Europe OR rich Mexicans who come to Houston to shop.
speaking of Ipods, anybody hear about this? http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060520-111639-7555r crazy....
Dave2000, I hate to break it to you, but they already have iPod vending machines here. I passed by one in the Atlanta airport 3 weeks ago and did a double take. Then I just laughed. Here's a pic of that particular machine (I didn't take the photo):
There's a nice one in Soho. Upstairs, they have this sweet theatre. Alot of people come into the Apple stores just to check the internet, or leech of the wireless signal. I'll have to say that Appple employees are pretty nice, and helpful, but I usually buy my stuff off the net, but stop by once in a while to check CF when I'm walking. Sometimes recording artists come and play free shows in the theatre. I saw Jehro there last week.
