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Apple's 5th Avenue Store, Jobs Interview

mkjellman said:
yeah he does look sick...i hope everything is alright with the cancer
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I wouldn't say that. Having to deal with cancer might often make you more "serious" for the rest of your life. If he doesn't look as lively as before, it doesn't have to mean he's still sick. (officially he's not.)

It's hard to express what I mean in english, so apologies if this came off in the wrong way.
 
Thunderbird said:
Wrong. The numbers stated are given within the context of business hours for a retail operation against the normal hours and days of other similar stores where closures during evenings, weekends or holidays are typical. When someone says 24/7, it means 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. It does not, by definition, take into account holidays, leap years, emergencies or bankruptcy. This configuration only refers to the number of hours and days up to one week in duration, and not to how many days or weeks per year. After all, a business could be in operation 24/7 on a seasonal basis (e.g. northern oil drilling rigs). To properly infer the number of days or weeks per year, additional information regarding annual operation is needed, in the form of a third figure: 365 (and this would not apply to leap years).

Therefore, 24/7/365 is accurate and complete as stated. We can allow for a slightly loose interpretation of the figure 365, in which a store might close for a holiday once a year, or for inventory, or an emergency. But even if a store followed the 24/7/365 policy strictly, it would be accurate only for every 3 years out of four.

:cool:
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Then let's just call it 24 hours/7 days/52 weeks.

But honestly, who really cares about how store hours are expressed. I'm more fascinated in the glass cube.
 
Is it just me or does anyone else think that Steve Jobs said "ummm" far to many times? I would have though as a professional he would have mastered speaking skills.
 
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bobx2001 said:
Is it just me or does anyone else think that Steve Jobs said "ummm" far to many times? I would have though as a professional he would have mastered speaking skills.
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..this wasn't rehearsed, you know. :) I think he managed well. He seemed honest and real, and the "umms" made him seem like a human being.
 
Step out of your cocoon, grasshopper.

sam10685 said:
even if there was no big huge apple logo suspended in the center of the cube, i'm willing to bet 98% of the population would know what store it is.
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Tsk, tsk.

I'll bet that if you show the Apple logo to people, over half of the people in the US wouldn't even know what company had it....

But of course, half of the people in the US couldn't point to New York on a map. Or Europe. Or cite more than 2 of the Ten Commandments or Articles of the Bill of Rights.

And most Europeans, seeing a none-logoed cube, would probably think that is was the new I.M. Pei entrance for the MOMA. After all, the Apple store is a pretty blatant rip-off of Pei's innovative update of the Louvre.
 
AidenShaw said:
Tsk, tsk.

I'll bet that if you show the Apple logo to people, over half of the people in the US wouldn't even know what company had it....

But of course, half of the people in the US couldn't point to New York on a map. Or Europe. Or cite more than 2 of the Ten Commandments or Articles of the Bill of Rights.

And most Europeans, seeing a none-logoed cube, would probably think that is was the new I.M. Pei entrance for the MOMA. After all, the Apple store is a pretty blatant rip-off of Pei's innovative update of the Louvre.
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It's the Louvre for the rest of us. :)
 
swingerofbirch said:
It's the Louvre for the rest of us. :)
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Except without Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu. :)

It's appropriately American to have a high-tech store be our answer to a cultural establishment elsewhere.
 
As I don't anticipate going to NYC anytime in the near future, I'll probably never see it in person :eek: Someone mentioned that after the initial "woah cool" stage the lines started to die down a lot...anyone confirm?
 
I can't believe that interviewer asked the question about European expansion. Seems like a no brainer the iPod is the king of the hill over there...even in France, where they don't like the volume too loud and the "home team" is Archos.

The only thing the 5th avenue store seems to be missing is a fog machine. :D
 
celebrian23 said:
As I don't anticipate going to NYC anytime in the near future, I'll probably never see it in person :eek: Someone mentioned that after the initial "woah cool" stage the lines started to die down a lot...anyone confirm?
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Definitely not true! Check out Apple's time lapse video. The line was still insanely crowed at midnight. It was still present at 1:00 AM!
 
Doctor Q said:
There aren't exactly 52 weeks in a year, so we might just have to settle for "The Apple Store is always open!"
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I liked this one best:

Macworld said:
“In the city that never sleeps, neither does this store,” said Ron Johnson, Apple’s senior vice president of Retail...

“We don’t want a visitor [to New York City] to miss a chance to come to the Apple Store,” and added “this store will be open from today forever.”
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