Speak for yourself.Just FYI Tim, you are not serving the creative community anymore.
Speak for yourself.Just FYI Tim, you are not serving the creative community anymore.
We are talking about a high profile bean counter who is against right to repair. Considering, the company’s founding came out of the creativity of Steve Wozniak who soldered together the first Apple I from parts. Steve Jobs saw a business opportunity and built a vision on it. It was Wozniak doing the coding too. Now Apple would be against a 15 year old interested in opening up his or her iPhone and learning how to fix it.
There are many people, young and old, that repairs iPhones every day using hot air stations and a microscope. Helping customers save data trapped inside those devices, that Apple representatives told them were lost forever. Even outright lying to them saying there is no way to make the phone work again.What 15 year old would buy an a phone large enough to allow internal soldering? Has it ever occurred to you that Apple's 99% satisfaction scores mean you might be an outlier?
4chan, I'd guess has existed for the loony-toones brigade, who like talking to themselves. Lol.It’s so funny to see people complain about “censorship” on PRIVATE platforms. These are NOT government institutions or organizations. They do NOT have to honor the freedom of speech if people are violating terms of service and spewing hateful or false rhetoric. These companies like Apple, Facebook, and Twitter have absolutely no obligation whatsoever to give people a platform to spread that. People are more than welcome to create their own platform where they can promote whatever the hell they want. That’s what’s supposed to be so great about capitalism, right? Blows my mind that people (mostly on the right) don’t understand this... smdh...
Sorry but 700k a year rent is only 60k/mth. And that'll increase after the initial contract term. You could, at a guess, expect someone to pay 3x that otherwise, for such a prestigious site.Makes no sense to pour $30 million into someone else's building then pay extravagant rent. Louis XIV would be proud but buy on Amazon to save a few bucks.
Apple is set to open a new retail store at the revamped Carnegie Library in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, May 11, and ahead of the grand opening, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Apple retail leader Deirdre O'Brien did an interview with The Washington Post to discuss the new flagship location.
Work on the Carnegie Library Apple Store kicked off two years ago, and Apple has spent an estimated $30 million on the project. $7 million of that went towards facade restoration, $300,000 went to restoring the stair wells, and $2 million was spent on landscaping and site work. Apple is also paying $700,000 per year for the next 10 years to lease the space.
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According to Cook, restoring Carnegie Library to its original design standards became the "most historic, ambitious restoration by far, in the world." Apple believes projects like this help showcase "Today at Apple" services and classes, though the company's aim is to get customers to further associate Apple with creativity.Like other remodeled Apple Stores, Carnegie Library will use the town square design with dedicated sections for the Genius Grove, Today at Apple sessions, and shopping for retail products. Buying something, says Cook is "probably one of the least done things" in an Apple retail location.
People come in to look at new products, and get help with the products that they already own. Apple sees its retail locations as communities rather than standard stores.The Carnegie Library store will open at 10:00 a.m. local time on May 11, and Apple has six weeks of programs from local artists planned in celebration of the launch.
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Apple will be sharing the space with the Historical Society of Washington D.C., which plans to open up a D.C. History Center.
Article Link: Apple CEO Tim Cook Discusses Apple's Revamped Carnegie Library Store in Washington, D.C.
They've got so much money that they don't know what to do with it. This "store" is a testament to that fact.
Seems like you don’t understand the reason Apple even has stores.Such a fancy venue for a subscription service company.
the actual quote from the Wash Post is: the company’s “most historic, ambitious restoration by far, in the world.”
Before and after
...though the company's aim is to get customers to further associate Apple with creativity...
Whoever designed this poster should be shot out of a canon into space for their travesty against humanity for it's wanton abuse of fonts..
But America NEEDS a Wall!And most of the ones still still being used for the purposes of historic preservation are badly hurting for the funds needed for basic upkeep and safety (see the Brazil National Museum, or what's left after too little funding for fire safety systems). Extreme wealthy people and companies seem to fund a lot of the needed preservation work, as politicians and voters send public funds to their favorite pork barrels instead.
So how much have you donated to your favorite historical societies or museums lately?
Perhaps this is the first sign of the beginning of the end... of the sterile gray Helvetica aesthetic? It’s not 2009 anymore...Yeah, not exactly something that came out of Reed College‘s calligraphy course...
Behold the signs, um, glyphs of the new!!!
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Perhaps this is the first sign of the beginning of the end... of the sterile gray Helvetica aesthetic? It’s not 2009 anymore...
This reminds me, after a long career in design, my father went back and took some more college courses to see what was new since he retired. The most notable “innovation” was this (to me) crazy use of mixed fonts, and everything he did after that featured half a dozen typefaces, varying all properties per element for as many reasons. It looked insane, like all his professional pieces were ransom letters, and I was sure he misunderstood the intention, but I was wrong. It’s being taught. Brave new world...
It looks like Satchel from Get Fuzzy designed this. Only thing missing is the backwards K, which may or may not have been caught in editing.Whoever designed this poster should be shot out of a canon into space for their travesty against humanity for it's wanton abuse of fonts..
I think Notre Dame will possibly beat it to become the most historic, ambitious restoration by far, in the world.
Let's hope Tim Cook won't restore it and put an Apple Store insideI think Notre Dame will possibly beat it to become the most historic, ambitious restoration by far, in the world.
And you should be slapped on your wrist for using "it's" instead of "its." But meanwhile, why does it seem like EVERY Apple Store is called a Flagship?Whoever designed this poster should be shot out of a canon into space for their travesty against humanity for it's wanton abuse of fonts..