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Apple Store in Southeastern U.S. Relocating Later This Week

Imagine being obsessed with every detail of a chain of retail stores, details that probably no one at apple has considered since the SJ era. If that wasn't bad enough, they changed from a Internet cafe/training center concept to basically a not-as-trashy verizon/att/tmobile cell phone retail store.

Kind of feel bad for Steeber. He claimed it as his beat, but there's really no substance there at this point.
 
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WarmWinterHat said:
It's considered the south, or deep south. The Carolinas, Virginia, Florida, those are southeastern.
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Just skipping right over Georgia?

Geographically it's in the southeast quadrant. "Deep South" is more of a cultural distinction.

Regardless, store in the Southeastern US is a weird construct. If you think Huntsville isn't clear to an international audience, then you can say Alabama. If the reader doesn't know where Alabama is, it's an opportunity to learn. I've no problem searching for regions of Germany, or wherever... But, of course, the only people who care that the store is moving to a different place in the mall are people who live in Huntsville. People in the Southeastern city of Atlanta don't need to read this story.
 
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Analog Kid said:
Just skipping right over Georgia?

Geographically it's in the southeast quadrant. "Deep South" is more of a cultural distinction.

Regardless, store in the Southeastern US is a weird construct. If you think Huntsville isn't clear to an international audience, then you can say Alabama. If the reader doesn't know where Alabama is, it's an opportunity to learn. I've no problem searching for regions of Germany, or wherever... But, of course, the only people who care that the store is moving to a different place in the mall are people who live in Huntsville. People in the Southeastern city of Atlanta don't need to read this story.
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I couldn't decide if Georgia was or not, lol.

In the US, Alabama is considered South because it was part of the confederacy. You're right, though, it's a cultural distinction and not physical.
 
mrhansolo said:
Have you been to Bridge Street? Hardly dying. Heck, a more traditional mall across town, Parkway Place seems to be doing just fine as well.
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I went to this "dying" mall about a month ago and bought a Touch ID Magic Keyboard for my iMac.
 
“The existing store is a bit like a time capsule, trapped in amber since it opened in May 2008….”
-Michael Steeber

😂 That’s a funny line.
 
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Alabama is an administrative division whose territory is located in the southeastern part of the country that is called the United States of America and expecting a locale-agnostic news site to play along with vernacular geography ideas like "the south" that only make sense to Americans is turbonarcissist behaviour
 
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Not to be that guy but the last line isn't accurate. At the very least Apple opened up a new store in Milton Keynes, England on June 29th, a week after the (much more impressive) Malaysian one. Same deal as the store in the article in fact, moving a few units down to give a much more modern and larger store. Vast improvement to be honest and is a surprisingly impressive visual for what is, at the end of the day, just another shopping mall store. Pretty sure Apple doesn't cover every store refurb / relocation on their website.
 
The original Apple Store is so tiny. I guess that's the point of the store design, to maximise sales in a small space. But even Adelaide Australia's Apple Store is huge in comparison, though Adelaide only has one Apple Store so maybe it needs to be.
 
smiddlehurst said:
Not to be that guy but the last line isn't accurate. At the very least Apple opened up a new store in Milton Keynes, England on June 29th, a week after the (much more impressive) Malaysian one. Same deal as the store in the article in fact, moving a few units down to give a much more modern and larger store. Vast improvement to be honest and is a surprisingly impressive visual for what is, at the end of the day, just another shopping mall store. Pretty sure Apple doesn't cover every store refurb / relocation on their website.
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I came to say the same thing. I even have an opening celebration bag because we happened to be there on opening day for a screen repair.
 
california_kid said:
If Wiki also says Ohio is a midwest state geographically:

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Ohio - Wikipedia

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Ohio (/oʊˈhaɪ.oʊ/ ⓘ oh-HY-oh)[14] is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

This seems a much larger stretch than the whole Alabama debate.
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The "Midwest" region in the United States has little to do with the modern geographic realities of the United States. There was a time where the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys were seen as the Wild West of the late 18th and early 19th century. When Ohio and many other Midwest states were admitted into the union, their territories were sandwiched between the new territory added from the Louisiana Purchase - that now represented the western extent of the United States - and the original colonies/first states along the Eastern Seaboard. In fact, Ohio was admitted as a state the same year as the Louisiana Purchase. The label Midwest developed in the context of their admittance and has stuck because it is something of a cultural identity irrespective of geographic accuracy.
 
WarmWinterHat said:
It's considered the south, or deep south. The Carolinas, Virginia, Florida, those are southeastern.
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Maybe to those that live in that region, but in as much as Southwestern US includes Arizona and New Mexico, Alabama is in the eastern side of the south. Deep South, to me, sounds like southern Florida. THAT's DEEP South (geographically). :)
 
Mac-85 said:
No knock on AL but Tallahassee sure deserves Apple Store. Quoting myself… Tallahassee FL population near 400k; 2 well known universities, state capital, and NO APPLE STORE.
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Holy crap I just checked the Apple Store map. Tallahassee may be the single furthest city from an Apple Store in the entire US.
 
DEMinSoCAL said:
Maybe to those that live in that region, but in as much as Southwestern US includes Arizona and New Mexico, Alabama is in the eastern side of the south. Deep South, to me, sounds like southern Florida. THAT's DEEP South (geographically). :)
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Alabama is the Westernmost Southeast state. I don't think anyone considers Mississippi the Southeast. But also Deep South is Alabama and Georgia and North Florida.

Southern Florida is Northern Latin America. It has nothing in common with the Deep South. Almost entirely populated by people from Northern states and countries South of Miami.
 
dschmitty-o said:
Errr -- the two biggest schools in the state are part of the Southeastern Conference.
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So isn't the University of Kentucky, Vanderbilt, University of Oklahoma, University of Texas (Austin).

No one in Lexington thinks they are in the southeast, and they have been a SEC member since it's inception.
 
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I can’t think of any reason that would compel me to go into an Apple Store these days. It’s no longer 2006.

Edit: going a step further, the very sound reasoning for stores even existing doesn’t make much sense anymore. Apple products are everywhere from Costco to Best Buy. Gone are the days when a dedicated retail presence could afford some much needed limelight to their products. Is this really the best way to spend the money and time these days is all I’m saying. It’s not the same since they hired Browett and Ahrendts. Those two gutted the one spectacular reason to visit: technical specialists that weren’t compelled by sales. Now any old specialist can be a genius. It’s all so watered down
 
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