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Apple Stores' army, long on loyalty, but short on pay [THE NEW YORK TIMES]
About 30,000 of the 43,000 Apple employees in this country work in Apple Stores, as members of the service economy, and many of them earn about $25,000 a year. ... Divide revenue by total number MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jun 25, 2012 8:52 AM ET -
The cult of the Apple Store
Part 4 of the New York Times' series takes readers inside the indoctrination process
FORTUNE -- If you've ever wondered what kind of training is required to get Apple employees to behave the way they do at the opening of a new retail outlet or the launch of a new iPhone -- whooping, hollering and tearing around the shopping mall -- David Segal's front-page story in Sunday's New York Times offers MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 24, 2012 8:25 AM ET -
Who converts more PC users, Apple or its retail partners?
What Tim Cook didn't say in last week's earnings call
FORTUNE -- When it reports on Mac sales in its retail stores, Apple (AAPL) likes to make the point -- as Tim Cook did again last week -- that roughly half of the Macs sold in Apple Stores are sold to customers who never owned a Mac before.
In a report issued Monday entitled "What Tim Cook Didn't Say," Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 30, 2012 2:58 PM ET -
Chart of the day: The Apple Store trounces Tiffany's
In dollars per sq. ft., the stores are 17 times more efficient than the average mall outlet
For more on Apple's (AAPL) retail efficiency, see Horace Dediu's analysts at Asymco.com.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 18, 2012 6:28 AM ET -
Video: Chinese security guards clash at the great wall of Apple
Cameras capture the takedown of banners promoting the "world's biggest" Apple store
Retail can be a tough business, especially in China, as Apple (AAPL) discovered Wednesday.
The video below, shot from a security camera, shows a platoon of Chinese security guards taking down a barricade that Apple had constructed outside an upscale shopping mall to promote a forthcoming Apple store billed as the "world's biggest."
The mall is in Dalain, a thriving seaport city MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 30, 2012 6:47 AM ET -
NYC iPad line: Shorter than iPad 2, longer than expected
An analyst offers 3 reasons that 750 customers at 8 a.m. was "strong start"
Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster flew to New York City for Apple's (AAPL) launch of the new Pad Friday morning and counted 750 people waiting in line outside the big glass cube on Fifth Avenue when doors opened at 8 a.m.
He declared it a "strong start" despite the fact that Friday's headcount was 37% lower than the 1,190 MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 16, 2012 9:52 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Apple Store, Fifth Avenue, Gene Munster, Grand Central Terminal, iPad, new iPad, New York City, Piper Jaffray, Tablets -
Not so ho-hum: iPad pre-sales sold out worldwide in two days
Despite one report suggesting a lukewarm response, demand seems to be intense
We got an e-mail Friday from an Israeli site called Drippler with what looked like bad news for Apple's (AAPL) new iPad:
Only 26% of Drippler users who own the 1st generation iPad plan on upgrading, while just 28% of iPad 2 owners will be getting the new iPad.
Given that Apple had sold 55 million iPads 1 and 2 as MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 10, 2012 10:40 AM ET -
The iPad event by the numbers
A round-up of Apple's latest milestones
No company is better at telling its story with nice round numbers than Apple (AAPL). Here, in the order they arrived, are the numbers it trotted out at Wednesday's iPad event:
362 Apple Stores
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 7, 2012 3:17 PM ET
110 million customers in Q4
315 million iOS devices sold
62 million in Q4 alone
25 billion iOS apps downloaded
100+ million iCloud customers
15.4 million iPads sold in Q4
200,000+ apps designed for iPad
100+ competing tablets came to MORE -
The Apple store is down
The yellow Post-it is the universal sign that Apple (AAPL) is brewing something new
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 7, 2012 10:33 AM ET
iPad rumor round-up: Back-from-vacation edition
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A new boss at the Apple Store
Tim Cook taps John Browett, CEO of Dixons, to head his retail empire
Ron Johnson, the former Target (TGT) whiz kid who built more than 300 Apple Stores for Steve Jobs, left a gaping hole in Apple's (AAPL) management team when he departed last year to run J.C. Penney (JCP). During his seven and a half years with the company, Johnson's stores became Apple's public face -- clean, well-lighted places where MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 31, 2012 8:07 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Apple Store, Dixons, J. C. Penney, John Browett, Ron Johnson, Steve Jobs, Tim Cook
