Retail
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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 -
What Apple's like in bed
A new sleep-tracking app for the iPhone from Lark offers a peek into life inside a retailing partnership with Apple.
FORTUNE -- Julia Hu got into bed with Apple (AAPL) so she could sell gadgets that get people out of bed. Hu is the CEO of Lark, a startup making a wristband that tracks your sleep until the moment it interrupts it. That's when it starts vibrating, a silent alarm that MORE
Chadwick Matlin - Jul 6, 2011 1:11 PM ET -
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
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Is Apple more popular than baseball?
Four times as many people now visit Apple Stores as go to Major League Baseball games
A throw-away stat on Business Insider last month comparing the number of visitors to Apple's (AAPL) retail stores last quarter (71.1 million, down from 74.5 million during the Christmas quarter) to Major League Baseball attendance figures for the entire 2010 season (73.6 million) got me thinking.
Could it be that Apple is more popular than America's MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 8, 2011 8:02 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Apple Store, baseball, Major League Baseball, Professional baseball, Retail, Sports, television, World Series -
Shootout at the Otay Ranch
A gun battle in a California Apple Store leaves one suspect dead -- a first for Apple
At 6:45 a.m. Monday, according to police, two armed men smashed the glass door of the Otay Ranch Apple Store in Chula Vista, Calif., and came upon the store manager and a security guard. One of the suspects pulled out a pistol and began shooting. The guard, who was armed, returned fire.
In the ensuing MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Apr 7, 2011 2:42 PM ETPosted in: Apple, AppleStore, Chula Vista California, Crime, iPhone, Mobile, Retail, San Diego, Security guard, Tablets -
Apple's iPad pop-up shop
A temporary retail outlet to service the tech enthusiasts gathering in Austin for SXSW
Last year, 35,000 people descended on Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest, a music, film and interactive technology festival that has become one of the premier social -- and drinking -- events in the high-tech calendar.
As it happens, this year's SXSW opens Friday -- launch day for the iPad 2. Anticipating that its two Austin-based retail stores MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 10, 2011 8:28 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Austin American-Statesman, Austin Texas, iPad, iPad 2, Pop-up retail, Retail, South by Southwest, SXWX, Tablets -
Apple store employee tells all
It can feel like a cult, he says. And behind the scenes, it's "all sell, sell, sell!"
Apple's (AAPL) 46,600 employees tend to like where they work, and it's rare that one talks out of school.
But in the current issue of Popular Mechanics, of all places, an Apple retail store employee talks candidly -- if anonymously -- about what's going on behind those whoops, hollers and high-fives.
A few MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 18, 2011 7:19 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Apple Store, AppleCare, AppleStore, Genius Bar, MobileMe, Popular Mechanics, Retail
