Was in a real Apple Store for the first time yesterday.

[Locut0s]

I usually pass on by. More times than not they are so full of lookie loos it rediculous. Stay at home and buy on Amazon. If I really need to see the product first swing by BB.

Like I said above. Apple is no longer about the product(s). It's now a cultural/fashion statement.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

When I was in Perth, my office was a 3 min walk from the Apple store downtown. Sometimes I'd go hang out in front of the store at lunch and use the free wifi, which was three times faster than the paid wifi at the hostel .

 

[vbuggy]

My experience with a few of those U-pick places are that they often have a LOT of very "wormy" fruit. Which isn't really a bad thing. If I'm going to such a U-pick I'd prefer to see something a bit more authentic with less use of pesticides than you see used at a large operation.

There's an awesome place near where I live - always try and go there for the beautiful veg/fruits in summer. However recently they've had to install a security hut by the exit and do trunk inspections because too many people were leaving without paying Sign of the times...

 

[guyver01]

Speaking of apples...

Candy & Caramel apples are back in stores now.

 

[IronWing]

It was like this only larger and with what seemed like hundreds of apple employees on the floor D:

So tempting. Wouldn't you like to:
1) Smoosh your face into that glass and stare at the folks inside?
2) Walk straight into the glass with a bunch of fake blood packets from the Halloween store next door?

 

[Aikouka]

I've been in the local Apple store a few times. It's actually kind of nifty in a few ways. You'll watch 'em just pull a bag from underneath a table, and then you become curious... what else do they hide under them tables. :hmm: There are no actual check outs, any "blue shirt" can check you out using an iPod Touch.

At least for a store based around technology, they're showing something off.

 

[Born2bwire]

I hit up an Apple Store for the first time a month or two ago. I was waiting for a table at a restaurant and we wandered in there to kill time. The way the place works is pretty neat; being able to page a store rep and whatnot. But I was also struck by the large amount of floor space with so little product. This store was in the downtown area that has been built up and gentrified for the past decade or so. The rent cannot be cheap for them but they had a large and open store. Reminded me of the Gateway stores that used to also be in town that failed. But I can see them failing by basis of the fact that PC's have much more cutthroat competition in prices and margins.

 

[mb]

Speaking of apples...

Candy & Caramel apples are back in stores now.

mmmm those look delicious!

 

[AMDZen]

Shouldn't you have looted it in a pissed off rage?

 

[BurnItDwn]

I went to an orchard a few weeks ago, they didn't have an apple store though, it was all "you pick em" style apples. Got some Honeycrisps, they were fantastic, I have only 4 left now. I bought a good 40 pounds worth!

 

[Blackjack200]

I remember when they opened the apple store in the Short Hills Mall, feels like 10 years ago. I went in there a couple times to get accessories or just look around, it was always empty.

A couple weeks ago I was at the SHM and thought 'why don't I check out the apple store?' Friggen place was mobbed. A lot has changed in the last few years.

 

[D1gger]

I don't think there are as many of them in Canada. Vancouver isn't a really small city and this is the first that I know of here, though there are probably 1 or 2 others in the city. Like I said I've been to Apple only stores that had a licence from Apple to just sell apple stuff but they weren't an official apple store. They didn't have the ipads in front of each product with the product specs on them and the tons of open floor space, etc.

Which store did you go to?

I've only been to the one at Oakridge Mall, and I wasn't impressed. Full of people just playing with the iPads, and almost impossible to talk to someone who actually worked there, and then they didn't have the product I wanted in stock (just a case for my MBP).

 

[nageov3t]

I've never understood the Apple Store "experience" hype.

every time I've been in/near one, it's super crowded with People of Walmart-esque people crawling all over the place while the Mac sales people are too busy helping Soccer Mom Jane learn how to use an appstore to give me my shit so I can leave.

 

[Born2bwire]

I went to an orchard a few weeks ago, they didn't have an apple store though, it was all "you pick em" style apples. Got some Honeycrisps, they were fantastic, I have only 4 left now. I bought a good 40 pounds worth!

Dammit. I still don't have a car out here so I can't go apple picking this season.

 

[gorcorps]

Wife dragged me to the Mall over the weekend. I walked past a store that was targeted to 8 year old girls, it was all feather boas, dress up, etc. A birthday party was going on. I looked at my 9 month old, looked back into the store and sneered with disgust.

Ten minutes later I walked past my first Apple store and the same look crept on my face.

True Story.

 

[deanx0r]

Like I said above. Apple is no longer about the product(s). It's now a cultural/fashion statement.

You should try using a Mac before spewing such a BS.

 

[gorcorps]

You should try using a Mac before spewing such a BS.

 

[OCGuy]

You should try using a Mac before spewing such a BS.

Or you can just borrow one from a wide-eyed college kid, or the hipster at Starbucks.

 

[nageov3t]

You should try using a Mac before spewing such a BS.

I agree with Locut0s :thumbsup:

 

[Locut0s]

I agree with Locut0s :thumbsup:

haha lol

 

[0roo0roo]

http://micgadget.com/16040/hong-kong-apple-store-everything-you-need-to-know/

 

[stacey1981]

We only have Storm around here which are authorised distributors. Not the same experience though.

 

[dawp]

Gateway tried this 10 years ago and they flopped.

 

[guyver01]

Gateway tried this 10 years ago and they flopped.

date on pic = 2003

10 years ago? 2003 + 10 = 2013.

YOU'RE FROM THE FUTURE?????

 

[HeXen]

Gateway tried this 10 years ago and they flopped.

thats cause gateway sucked.