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Apple Stores Being Updated With New 3D Window Displays
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That’s a really interesting insight, and I agree. I certainly don’t visit Apple for their range of accessories anymore; haven’t in a long time. Apple has become a bland global mega corporation.
I actually go into my local apple stores (I have 3 nearby) to see what random stuff is in their third-party section. They rotate them every few months; this month they have an AR-enabled lego, which was pretty interesting. And they always seem to have new smart-enabled things, like the always-amusing self-heating coffee mug.
But they do need more accessories. Accessories for Mac in best buy/etc are few and far between.
Back in my day you didn’t have fancy 3D rendered videos of a rumored product. You just had photoshop and what you could “borrow” from actual products. I loved these Frankenstein products because of the fun of trying to pick out what was borrowed.So excited for this new phone tomorrow!
(I wonder if someone from the Mac Rumors site will remember this...)
Anything I want I can find online, better yet I can find a broader range and get them cheaper than in an Apple store.
I bought a Kodi box instead of another ATV
I bought a RaspberryPi instead of upgrading my old Mac mini
I have installed Webmin instead of updating OSX server
I will replace the battery in my iPhone SE to keep it going until it dies then go to a feature phone
I will replace my MBP with a Hackintosh
I like my iWatch, but not enough to replace it when it dies
Oh and software vendors...I buy software, I don't lease it. Don't have a perpetual licence then you don't have me as a customer either. I don't lease books , music, Videos etc either, hard copy only thanks.
For what I use it for
GIMP is good enough
Darktable is good enough
Open office is good enough
etc etc etc etc.
I can afford to keep paying, I just refuse to, I have better things I want to spend my money on such as a routing table (wood work), decent saw bench that I can run dados on, a small metal lathe, decent SMD soldering Iron, etc.
Exactly! Why buy from Apple when Officeworks has a bigger range, cheaper prices, better warranty AND Afterpay?
Anyone here know how they implemented those giant iPhone mockups placed at the front of the stores (see picture)? I always thought those were pretty cool and eye-catching. I’d imagine they were just very wide flatscreen monitors turned on their side that played a looping video of an iPhone screen in action.
You have to figure some Apple store employee, somewhere, managed to grab a decommed one and has it stashed in their garage somewhere. Will probably end up on eBay for 10,000 bucks lol.
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You have to figure some Apple store employee, somewhere, managed to grab a decommed one and has it stashed in their garage somewhere. Will probably end up on eBay for 10,000 bucks lol.
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I can 100% absolutely guarantee that 3D renderings of devices existed back in the day. Apple was just much better at preventing them from leaking (and its supply chain did not depend 100% on a country where "business secret" has no translation into the local language)
OMG, someone actually admits to using the GIMP. It was junk a decade ago, and it's junk today. Just use a hex editor, it has a better interface than the GIMP.
Sort of like those dudes who will buy a V6 Mustang, stick a giant turbo and wing and attempt to race Ferraris at stoplights.
Giant MacBook Pro with an oversized scissor-type keyboard, like the piano keyboard in the movie “Big”, with dancers typing messages by taking advantage of that new fuller key travel. 
Since 2013 the 'new' Apple Stores have been good, but I do miss the mid-2000s long, narrow aluminium clad, pale wooden tables and that space-age feel they had over today's warm, jewellery like store feeling stores.
Best 3D window display was definitely the MacBook Air suspended from a balloon! Anyone remember that one?
Best 3D window display was definitely the MacBook Air suspended from a balloon! Anyone remember that one?
Same here. Not sure I want to make a long round-trip just to see window displays. However, I might be willing to make the journey to play with all of the new devices announced later today (6pm local time)!Probably pretty cool to see. Unfortunately, the nearest Apple store is like 75 miles away from me
Sh*t, he's spilled too much info... Suspend his account, immediately! lol
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Probably pretty cool to see. Unfortunately, the nearest Apple store is like 75 miles away from me
Same distance as mines! (Londonderry to Belfast) argh! Still, grateful we've got a store in NI!
I believe this was also posted in 2000 which was years before the actual iPhone made it to market, which made this even funnier looking back on it. At least they nailed the phone name.
So, I can almost assure you there aren't any of these floating around.
I tried to find a way to rescue a fibreglass iPod Nano chromatic from the window display. I had two managers watch me destroy them in the compactor to ensure they couldn't be reused.
Those "iPhones" were pretty awesome Panasonic Plasmas and weight a freaking ton. They got shipped back to Apple corporate after the window display was done.
I put that window display up! I was probably more partial to the years we had live Christmas trees though
Did anything happen at the stores? It would be odd to see new products in window displays since we never received them prior to keynote day even when we used to do 3D window displays regularly.