Apple Store
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One city, 22 fake Apple stores
An official search of Kunming, China, yields a surfeit of unauthorized Apple retail shops
Three weeks after an American blogger visiting the capital of China's Yunnan province posted the first photographs of a copycat Apple Store so convincing that even some of the sales staff thought they were working for Steve Jobs, Chinese authorities have identified 22 more unauthorized Apple stores in Kunming city.
According to a Reuters report filed Thursday, the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 12, 2011 5:10 AM ET -
Apple's Grand Central store would be its cheapest in NYC
Plans call for a 23,000-sq.-ft. store with minimal alterations of the landmark building
Contrary to rumors and published reports, the new store that Apple (AAPL) wants to build in New York City's Grand Central Terminal would not be its largest. At roughly 23,000 square feet, it would be smaller than London's Regent Street (25,000 sq. ft.) and the Covent Garden (24,600) stores.
But according to ifoAppleStore's Gary Allen, it would be one MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 26, 2011 7:30 AM ET -
China shutters two bogus Apple Stores. But not that one
The fake retail outlet that launched a thousand news stories is still open for business
There were developments Monday in everybody's favorite story about China's disregard for western intellectual property rights.
China's official investigation of fake Apple (AAPL) stores in Kunming city -- triggered by the discovery by BirdAbroad of a knock-off so convincing that even some of its employees thought they were working for Steve Jobs -- turned up four similar MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 25, 2011 6:30 AM ETPosted in: Apple Store, BBC, BirdAbroad, Burma, China, Fake Apple Store, Kunming, Reuters, Steve Jobs, Yunnan -
The Apple Store is back up
With OS X Lion, a new MacBook Air and a new MacBook mini
In Wednesday's apple.com splash screen, Apple (AAPL) is highlighting "the new, faster MacBook Air."
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 20, 2011 8:50 AM ET -
Apple blows past estimates. Sales up 82%. Profits up 125%.
Sold a record 20.34 million iPhones, 9.25 million iPads and 3.95 million Macs
Apple's (AAPL) third fiscal quarter was bigger than the most optimistic estimates. Even without a new iPhone to drive sales, revenues, earnings and profits were bigger than the biggest Christmas quarter.
Apple also announced that OS X Lion is coming tomorrow (Wednesday).
The iPhone and iPad numbers were huge surprises. Sales of the iPod, as expected, continued to fall. Only MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 19, 2011 4:57 PM ETPosted in: Apple, Apple Store, Gross margin, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iPod touch, Peter Oppenheimer, Quarterly earnings, Steve Jobs, Tim Cook -
The Apple Store is back up
The yellow Post-it is usually a sign that something new is coming
[UPDATE: The store came back up shortly after 6:00 a.m. EST Sunday. If there were any changes, I can't see them.]
Sometimes Apple (AAPL) takes its online store off-line for cosmetic changes -- like maybe a Father's Day sale. Sometimes it's to clear the decks for a new piece of hardware. What that might be, we can only guess. Among MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 19, 2011 5:13 AM ETPosted in: AirPort, Airport Utility, Apple, Apple Store, Apple.com, Deutsche Bank, MacBook, PCs, Time Capsule -
Video: German Apple store site defaced with Windows logo
A well-documented piece of street art appeared Friday at a Hamburg construction site
A group calling itself the .Wav Collective, after a Windows audio file format, has posted a video showing a pair of street artists disguised as workmen cordoning off a section of the Jungfernstieg in downtown Hamburg Friday morning, hoisting a ladder against the construction barricade at the site of Apple's (AAPL) newest retail in the city, and calmly MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 5, 2011 6:13 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Apple Store, Germany, Hamburg, Microsoft Windows, Retail, Street Art, WAV, Windows -
Apple Store 2.0 by the numbers
The new Fifth Avenue store is the same as the old store, only more efficient
Without a new product or a shortage of iPads to draw a crowd, there were no lines outside the big glass cube of the iconic Apple Store on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Monday morning.
The traffic in the subterranean retail space was also relatively light, which made it easy to count the changes wrought by the redesign that MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 23, 2011 11:30 AM ET -
A peek inside Apple Store 2.0
Screen grabs from the staff's new iPads suggest it will matter more to them than to us
"Everything feels a bit different," reads an entry in the Daily Download, the new internal publication for Apple (AAPL) retail employees that fell into the hands of 9to5Mac's Seth Weintraub Thursday night. "Switching to RetailMe on iPad is like switching from a PC to a Mac."
But from the topics covered in Issue No. 1, MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 20, 2011 7:21 AM ET -
10 Apple Store numbers
Plus, video of Steve Jobs giving a tour the first store, which opened 10 years ago today
"I give them two years before they're turning out the lights on a very painful and expensive mistake," Channel Marketing Corp. president David Goldstein told Businessweek as Apple (AAPL) was launching its first foray into computer retailing. Ten years later, let's look at the numbers:
325 stores in 11 countries, 87 outside the U.S.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 19, 2011 9:01 AM ET
2.5 million MORE
