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Apple's 5th Avenue Store, Jobs Interview

The Dweeby Nerd said:
http://www.fscklog.com/2006/04/ipodmarktanteil.html
The numbers are from April 2006.

btw: As far as my personal experience is concerned, I really don't see a lot of people walking around with iPods over here; most of the music-listening students at my university have these cheap MP3 Players with 256 or 512MB flash memory.
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Wow, I don't know where "over here" is for you, but each time I travel to the UK, I see iPods EVERYWHERE. Can't walk down a London, Salisbury, or even humble little Warminster street without seeing the familiar white ear buds and distinctive cases.
 
Doctor Q said:
We haven't been discussing the most important part of this multi-topic news story, the part that could affect certain people's lives in profound ways.

Did Uschi Lang say yes?
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I was wondering the same thing.
I wonder if we'll ever find out.
 
thekskill, I made it in your video! :eek: Here's a screenshot I took:

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I'm the guy behind the two girls with the Apple Computer logos on their cheeks. I'm the one holding the camera. The girl with the pigtails is the one my dad and I were talking to most of the time while in line. She and her friend even made it on Apple's official photos page:

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I showed my family the video and my sister instantly recognized who you guys were. She remembers you being the crazy bunch entering the store. :p
 
Leoff said:
Wow, I don't know where "over here" is for you
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I live in Germany (but I was born and raised in Poland)

but each time I travel to the UK, I see iPods EVERYWHERE. Can't walk down a London, Salisbury, or even humble little Warminster street without seeing the familiar white ear buds and distinctive cases.
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As I wrote before, iPod holds 40 percent of market share in the UK, as opposed to 20 percent in Germany. Hence, you see more people walking around with iPods in the UK than you would see in Germany. So what exactly is your point?

And again, most of the Germans I see have some other MP3 Player. I really don't notice many iPods here.
 
Doctor Q said:
Math errors in the Steve Jobs interview:
The interviewer says the new Apple Store in New York will be open 24x7x365. She's confusing 24x7 (open every hour of the week) and 24x365 (open every hour of the year). Her version means every hour for 7 years! Steve says it correctly (24x365) in the interview.​
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Actually, and I'm surprised the others didn't point this out, her version with 24 x 7 x 365, would mean that the store will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for 365 weeks.

365 weeks is about seven years. So this means the reporter either thinks that the store will only be open for about the next seven years (perhaps making way for a newer, bigger store), or else she thinks that Apple is now on a new seven-year calendar for some reason.​
 
Did anyone else find it really hilarious how the video ends?

"...and the NASDAQ is heading for the worst losing streak in the millenium------"

For some reason that just cracked me up, it was so sudden and the movie just cuts.
 
The Dweeby Nerd said:
I live in Germany (but I was born and raised in Poland)



As I wrote before, iPod holds 40 percent of market share in the UK, as opposed to 20 percent in Germany. Hence, you see more people walking around with iPods in the UK than you would see in Germany. So what exactly is your point?

And again, most of the Germans I see have some other MP3 Player. I really don't notice many iPods here.
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I think he is meaning that there are really ONLY iPods in the UK.... which I have to agree with. Not only do you rarely see any other brand of mp3 player (and I mean NEVER) but I used to work at a John Lewis branch. We only sold iPods, Dixons and comet in town only sold iPods, and so did Virgin megastore in town. Most places were really pushing the ipod. I'd have to say, at least here, iPods sales were more like 80-90%.

I dont know how this survey was conducted, If it was online then I know alot of Apple hating amongst the PC geeks that are likely to fill in those forms.

If it was filled in by people on the high street..... well it wasn't. I work in retail for electronics, I see how much iPod stock is ordered as opposed to stock for ALL other makes together. I live in the UK, I see the public with their white headphones.

This report is either from an online survey.... or its all made up.
 
The Dweeby Nerd said:
I disagree.
iPod's market share in Europe:
UK: 40%
Germany: 21%
France: 11%.
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Don't you think this is because of Apple not being able to get the iTMS running overseas as quickly/as well as they would have liked?
 
Uschi Lang

I just checked out the time lapse video. Did any one else see the guy holding the series of signs that say:

"Uschi Lang,"

"I love you."

"Will you merry me?"
 
mhrob said:
A really awesome, absolutely gorgeous full-screen panorama of the Cube (and night time lineup) can be viewed here:

http://panoramas.dk/newspanos/f20-apple-store.html
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That's the first time I've ever forgiven a web page for resizing itself without my permission. It deserves my whole screen!

jcohen919190 said:
I just checked out the time lapse video. Did any one else see the guy holding the series of signs...
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This is mentioned in the MacRumors front page story that this thread is discussing and also mentioned earlier in the thread. It's one of two proposals we've discussed, in fact.
 
autrefois said:
Actually, and I'm surprised the others didn't point this out, her version with 24 x 7 x 365, would mean that the store will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for 365 weeks.

365 weeks is about seven years. So this means the reporter either thinks that the store will only be open for about the next seven years (perhaps making way for a newer, bigger store), or else she thinks that Apple is now on a new seven-year calendar for some reason.
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or she just messed up and didn't know some people would think it meant 365 weeks. The majority of people took it as 365 days a year. I'm still not quiet sure how this conversation got so dragged out. :rolleyes:
 
autrefois said:
Actually, and I'm surprised the others didn't point this out, her version with 24 x 7 x 365, would mean that the store will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for 365 weeks.
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Well you can stop being surprised now because Doctor Q pointed that out on page 1 (and you even quoted him pointing it out in your post).


Lethal
 
A little video

Well I put together a little video of when I went to the store on friday. The video was taken with my digital camera and although I'd love to upload the full-quality VGA video version that wouldn't fit on YouTube (and would of taken forever to upload! :eek: ) But, anyway here it is, it's not compressed too bad. Now I have to go to more Apple Store openings, they're so much fun! :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQjFPTQUU5g
 
LethalWolfe said:
Well you can stop being surprised now because Doctor Q pointed that out on page 1 (and you even quoted him pointing it out in your post).
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I see the world through calculator-colored glasses, but I'm rather surprised others wanted to run with the 24x7x365 discussion too.

We also had math-themed discussion, about Calculator.app, in the Mac OS X 10.4.7 Seeded thread. :cool:
 
p0intblank said:
I'm the guy behind the two girls with the Apple Computer logos on their cheeks. I'm the one holding the camera. The girl with the pigtails is the one my dad and I were talking to most of the time while in line.
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Aren't you East Coasters supposed to say on line when you're waiting in a row with a bunch of other people, and not in line? My girlfriend is from Jersey and I'm a native West Coaster, and this little bit of semantics has been a source of no end of contention between us! Oddly enough, it's the only thing we ever argue about. :)

I guess we could compromise and take the Anglophile route, saying we're queued instead.
 
Silencio said:
Aren't you East Coasters supposed to say on line when you're waiting in a row with a bunch of other people, and not in line? My girlfriend is from Jersey and I'm a native West Coaster, and this little bit of semantics has been a source of no end of contention between us! Oddly enough, it's the only thing we ever argue about. :)

I guess we could compromise and take the Anglophile route, saying we're queued instead.
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East coast all my life, and lived in NYC. It's standing in line. Online is "connected to the internet." Never heard it any other way.
 
pictures of first proposal

Anybody know of any pictures from the first proposal in line?
 
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