Apple Planning 10th Anniversary Retail Event?

[vincenz]

I'll be there if there are freebies 🙂

 

[bdkennedy1]

$25 off any new iMac. Yay!

 

[dr Dunkel]

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Deletemeplease

 

[dr Dunkel]

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To be fair, that Goldstein guy said that before the iCraze from the iPod began, at that time I still thought of Apple as the company that made those really slow computers that came in various colors 😛

Only one color now 😀

 

[Dr Kevorkian94]

so if it is now for a internal training there has to be something that is new. even if it is the imacs, there will have to be a lot new with it if there is a couple days that the employees need to be taught. well hopefully there will be some cool stuff

 

[zepharus]

Some stores are doing so well that they are too small. Lookin' at you KOP 😉

Heh, you want to see small? Take a look at the Apple Store in Syracuse,NY . Im told it is the most profitable store per/sq ft in the entire system. It is like a shoe box in there and always packed.

 

[JAT]

the iMac has been around for more than 10 years though, '98 the first version arrived so its 12-13 years old the iMac😀

And the iMac was just a new name. Macs began life as an all-in-one in 1984.

 

[thirteen1031]

And the iMac was just a new name. Macs began life as an all-in-one in 1984.

So, I wonder what Apple will do three years from now when it's the 😱 20th anniversary 😱 of the Mac....

 

[JAT]

So, I wonder what Apple will do three years from now when it's the 😱 20th anniversary 😱 of the Mac....

I think you mean 30. If history tells us anything, they'll come up with a funky computer and price it about 2.5x what it's worth.

 

[iMacThere4Iam]

I love reading all these old articles which claim Apple will fail. In Your Face Idiots! 😀

+1. I especially enjoy how there seems to be an endless supply of fools who come out of the woodwork to denounce every new Apple creation.

Even the spin some of the Windows and Android - centric critics put on Apple's monster earnings report yesterday, and every previous earnings report for about the last, oh, ten years is laughable.

Happy anniversary, Apple Stores. 10% off new Macs sounds just about right to me.

 

[slu]

I think I might be the only person who doesn't like the Apple Stores. They are always packed with people who have no intention of buying anything, which makes it difficult to get assistance if you actually want to buy something and get the hell out of there. I have had to wait for someone to ring me up or get me an iPod multiple times because sales people were chatting with people who were not buying anything.

I have gone to the genius bar a few times and always had good service though.

I'd rather order online or go to another store instead of going to an Apple store.

 

[SockRolid]

MobileMe 2.0? (Or will it be 3.0?)

[...] The last time Apple reportedly enforced such blackout dates was due to the Verizon iPhone 4 and iPad 2 launches. [...]

Let's see. WWDC will be in June and the iPhone 5 rollout will be in September. Why would Apple want all their Apple Store employees to stick around for two days in late May?

My guess is that Apple will be training their Apple Store employees to explain and sell some kind of updated MobileMe service. The North Carolina data center and its 12 petabytes of disk storage should be humming and ready for action by then. Ready to stream our music and video content.

But is that all? Just "iTunes in the cloud"? Probably not, if it requires special training for Apple's sales staff. There has to be something else. For example, Apple could easily add a "Time Machine in the cloud" option to Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7 later in the year. Boring, yes. But it's a potentially lifesaving feature. Automatic offsite backup for the masses.

There are rumors that Apple will be rolling out some kind of social networking service soon. Yeah, I know. BFD. But don't forget that Apple and Facebook were on the verge of adding a Facebook feature to iOS 4. (Rumored to have been some kind of photo posting directly from the iPhone camera or Photo Library to your Facebook account.)

The Facebook deal didn't happen, but maybe Apple has learned enough from the experience to do "social" over in their own image. Who knows?

 

[SockRolid]

Great experiences at the Genius Bar

I think I might be the only person who doesn't like the Apple Stores. [...]

I also don't like the crowding and high noise levels. But if I want hands-on time with the latest Apple gear, that's where I go.

[...] I have gone to the genius bar a few times and always had good service though. [...]

Same here. I recently needed minor replacement parts for my MacBook Pro out of warranty, and the various Geniuses I dealt with were all professional and had great attitudes. Knock on wood.

 

[SockRolid]

This one is a classic.

I love reading all these old articles which claim Apple will fail. In Your Face Idiots! 😀

Me too. The June 1997 Wired "101 Ways to Save Apple" story is an all-time classic. First way to save Apple, according to Wired:

"1. Admit it. You're out of the hardware game."

Umm, wrong.

Oddly, though, the #2 item is surprisingly prescient. This actually might be where Apple is heading, at least in the TV space:

"2. License the Apple name/technology to appliance manufacturers and build GUIs"

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.06/apple.html

 

[Popeye206]

The best were when people were talking about how bad the iPod was 🙂

All this "i" stuff will never catch on! 😛

 

[Popeye206]

Me too. The June 1997 Wired "101 Ways to Save Apple" story is an all-time classic. First way to save Apple, according to Wired:

"1. Admit it. You're out of the hardware game."

Umm, wrong.

Oddly, though, the #2 item is surprisingly prescient. This actually might be where Apple is heading, at least in the TV space:

"2. License the Apple name/technology to appliance manufacturers and build GUIs"

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.06/apple.html

PC Week has these "top ten" lists all the time. "What Apple needs to do to ____" and "What _____ needs to do to overtake Apple".

I read these things and chuckle 99% of the time. They are so lame and so far off from reality. The best recent one (Jan. time frame) was how much the iPad 2 was going to fail if it didn't have a 4G option. Well... I guess we know how that worked out! 🙄

 

[Popeye206]

Hummm... if this is training time, maybe it's for the launch of the new cloud service?

 

[nxent]

To be fair, that Goldstein guy said that before the iCraze from the iPod began, at that time I still thought of Apple as the company that made those really slow computers that came in various colors 😛

true, the ipod did change a lot. on the flip side, that first store in tyson's corner was really popular when it opened. i remember waiting an hour and a half just to get inside when it first opened. sadly i lost my tyson's corner apple tshirt a few years ago 🙁

 

[seashellz]

Steve Balmer's greatest hits

"The iTunes music store-that will be history in 6 months" Jan 2001
"The iPod-that will be history in 6 months" Nov 2001
"Apple stores-watch for that idea to fail in 6 months"-May 2001
"The iPhone-that be history in 6 months-Jan 2007
"The iPad-that will be history in 6 months"-Apr 2010


Microsoft has tried to enter each market and failed miserably

while the jury is still out on the Windows phone-that is likely to do lukewarm
if not fail-you cannot be a huge lumbering dinosaur in todays tech world
MS and its products were modeled on and are stuck in 1980s corporate thinking
Apple keeps reinventing itself and is up to 2011

"Windows is an antiquated technology that will slowly be phased out" review of OSX in the Sept 2009 in the Wall Street Journal

 

[steadysignal]

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A 10% off sale perhaps?

yes, i will set my watch by that idea.

/not.

 

[Laird Knox]

So, I wonder what Apple will do three years from now when it's the 😱 20th anniversary 😱 of the Mac....

The prototype has already been leaked:

😉

 

[iMAVERICKam]

(I would buy tons of gift cards, then buy gift cards with those gift cards, ect)

That's probably why gift cards are always exempt from promotions then. Just a thought.

 

[maclaptop]

Here's hoping!

Not a chance. This is Apple remember.

 

[AppleScruff1]

Maybe they'll give all their customers a framed map of all the places they have been that were secretly traced by their iPhones. Now that would be an anniversary celebration.

 

[LightSpeed1]

They will continue to not charge anyone for playing with apple goodies all day. 😛