The Boston store looks beautiful, but so out of place.
That closely cropped rendering is kind of deceptive. The view from the store entrance isn't especially quaint or historical, it's a vast expanse of concrete covering a major highway, with modern office towers, hotels and a yuppy mall on top.The Boston, however, store looks completely out of place. A glass cube has no place in that historic setting. It would be nice to see if they could do something uniquely Apple while remaining with the turn of the century architecture.
Yeah, cool. But I want one in Poland.![]()
This is the old Copy Cop across the street from the Pru, right? What's "traditional" about that?![]()
The one in Manhattan is pretty nice, and it's open 24 hours, to!
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Very Apple - very nice!
Beautiful...
I'd just be happy if the tiny Apple store opening up in the Waterside Shops (just a few miles from me) would open up already!!
That closely cropped rendering is kind of deceptive. The view from the store entrance isn't especially quaint or historical, it's a vast expanse of concrete covering a major highway, with modern office towers, hotels and a yuppy mall on top.
Beautiful...
I'd just be happy if the tiny Apple store opening up in the Waterside Shops (just a few miles from me) would open up already!!
well the sydney store will be conveniently located between Haighs chocolates (on the opposite side of the street) and Red Eye Records (just around the corner)... I don't venture in to town much these days but those three things combine would be a might good reason....![]()
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The traditional refers to the neighborhood in the Back Bay. Putting a glass envelope in a four story brownstone neighborhood has stirred some controversy. You can find some history to the controversy by looking up the Hancock Tower and its development.
It also points out that Apples retail stores work on a rather atypical marketing scheme. As you know, people dont just come in to look at a product, ask for its price, and buy it or not. Its more like people come in to use free wireless, to play around with new iPods or new cameras or new anything, maybe talk so some people in black shirts about how their machine is busted, who end up shipping it off without doing much of anything.
The experience less about buying at that point in time and more about assimilation of branding so that youll buy Apple when it comes time.
The "neighborhood" where the Apple store is going was, historically, an industrial area, not residential. Where the Prudential Center now sits used to be an enormous rail yard. In 1912, the Copy Cop building housed Jackson Motor Cars and Century Tires. As built, it didn't even have the recessed entrance and awnings used by Copy Cop, it was plate glass facing pedestrians.
Careful here. [snip] Then I go by the apple store. Now Macs are real cool and I'm apple all the way - but why go in the store? Nothing will ever be on sale - that's their policy. Even older games or software never go on sale. (never mind therre's no bargain bin - even micro center has a 'get rid of this stuff' bargain bin.)
Wow! You didn't say Gateway make better stores! I am impressed.
Maybe you are not a Troll after all![]()
"...a bright, shiny jewel box within a traditional neighborhood."