Boston and (24 hour) New York Apple Store

[JCT]

Yeah, I agree other than the Genius Bar, what would you do there in the wee hours. One thing I would prob do myself is to try to make it a nice and hip hangout spot. Throw in a deli serving coffee, pastries, etc. Peeps can chill and hang out after the clubs! Think of it, the Apple store can become a cool nightspot!

Actually, rumor has it that the SOHO Apple store is a serious "pickup" spot. Always amused me because every time I am in there the place is packed to the rafters. Talk about getting up close and personal....

The other advantage to the upper midtown spot is that there are a fair number of seriously upscale hotels in that area. Well-heeled tourists from outside the country will flood that place.

Also good timing on the opening, people are buzzing around the city at all hours during the warm summer nights.

JT

 

[splintah]

showing your piss drunk friends that new macbook pro at 5:00 am

having actually fun with that photo booth thing

 

[DISCOMUNICATION]

Well I love that dirty water. Oh, Boston, you're my home

Thanks Apple for recognizing my hometown! Or the town across the river from me.

 

[yac_moda]

The other advantage to the upper midtown spot is that there are a fair number of seriously upscale hotels in that area. Well-heeled tourists from outside the country will flood that place.

Also good timing on the opening, people are buzzing around the city at all hours during the warm summer nights.

JT

Thanks ! See I told you Apple is getting ready to expand their services. A landing point for travelers that need an office away from home !!!

 

[yac_moda]

showing your piss drunk friends that new macbook pro at 5:00 am

having actually fun with that photo booth thing

A couple of good gaming theaters would be great too especially if the equipment doubled as an environment for extream programming during the day for Apple engineers in house.

I wounder if Apple could hire a bunch of hackers at the Washington store and spy on the capital goings on just for the fun of it.

 

[Austin.xstone]

AH! 24 hours a day of Mac play time - I wonder how many people would pay to work there??? I think they are still at risk of a robbery but who would be able to clean out an Apple sore with staff there?

 

[xy14]

Actually this area of Manhattan is basically dead at night. If they had opened a store in Times Square it'd have made more sense to open all night. Even the SoHo location would make more sense to be open 24/7.

59th Street is a ghost town at 2 AM.

I should also point out that I am a big-time night owl. I work at home, and I am usually up till 6-7 AM. I hate the daytime in the city, when all the damn worker bees and tourists are running around. The night here is so much better...

That'd suck to have to actually go to times square and find out you have to take a horrid 10-minute train ride to the apple store.

When I was in that area (56th & Park), I did agree that, although Park Ave was a bit loud (what isn't), it was much quieter than probably any other part of manhattan (s of central park).

 

[Counterfit]

I am still waiting for a store in Providence.
Job listings have appeared - but no announcement yet.

Does anyone have info?

Well, I applied a few days after the listings came up, but I haven't gotten any replies yet.

Thanks Apple for recognizing my hometown! Or the town across the river from me.

uh...

 

[boncellis]

As far as all of this security talk is concerned I think we have overlooked the real concern. I don't think it is very likely that the store itself woudl be robbed. I think it is way more liekly that the customers 2 blocks after leaving the store would be targets. Apple gives you those nifty looking bags that scream, "I just bought something expensive, take it from me!" I feel uncomfortable after wakling out of that place, bag in hand, in broad daylight; I certainly wouldn't want to be walking around NYC at 2am with one of those bags.

Hence the need to keep it open all night, so you can go back and replace the iPod for which you were just mugged...

But seriously, that's a good point. I'd be afraid to wear those white wires after midnight let alone carry a shopping bag around.

As far as the Boston store goes--4 floors? I'm envious just thinking of all the stuff Apple will have going on in that building. The store here in SLC does not offer much more in terms of product display or interaction than the Apple section of the campus bookstore.

 

[janstett]

No it wouldn't.

It would be heaven. Coffee and Apple. sigh

In my mall, the Bose Store is right next to a Starbucks and in fact they got rid of part of the dividing wall between the two so people could linger. I could imagine the same thing with Apple stores...

 

[janstett]

24/7/365... Apple always on. Seems they're drawing closer to the Totality of the Religion of Technology from the their shrines of glass and steel. This is so Technomicon© 1997 -Diamhinn nac Grianne. Seriously though, think of it. World Wide Religion... An icon that all bow to... An Avatar who rallies the people under that logo. Seems like the term Apple Zelot goes to a new level... Strange how the nano and the shuffle are a bit like Crucifixes... Welcome brothers and sisters to the Religion of Technology. Apple the central Demi-urge of our industrial futurism...

~The Red Wolf~

Science and Technology
The new mythology
Look deep inside
Empty

- Living Colour

 

[janstett]

an apple store open 24 hours a day? who would visit there at 3 in the morning for example? i would think they would be more suseptible to robberies and the like if they are open that long.. especially if they are in a bad part of town. nevertheless, i sure wouldn't want to be an apple store employee starring at the ceiling at 3 in the morning.

I see you're in SoCal... I was amazed to see how quickly downtown LA closes up at night... I got done working a trade show (CT Expo) after 9:00 and it was nearly impossible to find an open restaurant. NYC isn't like that. Something is always going on, it's 24-7. Some of the bars/clubs are just closing up at 6:00 am, when some people go home to shower and start the next day of work.

 

[ClimbingTheLog]

This is New York, the City that Never Sleeps. Of course there will be late night buyers. Just think of all those Today show producers who need a power mac at 3:00 am.

I suspect most of their sales will be late night accessories - external hard drives and the like from the folks cramming to get a project out for morning and find out they're out of rendering space.

 

[yac_moda]

I see you're in SoCal... I was amazed to see how quickly downtown LA closes up at night... I got done working a trade show (CT Expo) after 9:00 and it was nearly impossible to find an open restaurant. NYC isn't like that. Something is always going on, it's 24-7. Some of the bars/clubs are just closing up at 6:00 am, when some people go home to shower and start the next day of work.

Oh yah, LA SUCKs the restaurants are BAD there NO community. I don't know what they were thinking of when they built that town.

I guess for years Disney, Knots, and the Wax Museum dominated the creation of community so much that when they became too crowded or unpopular for anybody but teenagers that want to FEEL each other ...

... they just forgot how to do it.

The evening street markets look like that happening thing and the food looks good but it don't taste good.

Go north up the coast and there is real community and good food but its not a good place to live the cost of living and incomes do not equate, all the people in California now are ex-cons hiding out !!!

And its probably becoming fascist state ...

Other places are much better.

 

[seashellz]

>>You'd think that with all the spares we have here down in Seattle we could kick you up one or two.. We have a Mac store and three Apple stores for christs sake.
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Well.... the Mac Store is an indie operation-with a bad rep-wonder how long theyll last-especailly with an Apple store a mile away?

So, theres the University Village store for Seattle proper, Bellevue Square for the Eastside (only a mile or two from MS HQ!)

And then there is a small "Applette" store in Southcenter-serving a more low-income-working class region...

They now need a north store in Edmonds or Lynnwood-an area with a Boeing plant, and a lot of high tech/income folks... or (gasp) Everett!)

 

[Sayhey]

You have four Apple stores in Washington and one is in Lynnwood already. It's in the Alderwood Mall.

 

[Noah330]

Not sure if it has been mentioned but Berklee College of Music is about two blocks from the site of the new Apple Store they are planning in Boston.

When I went to Berklee, I never got out to Chestnut Hill where the Apple Store is now.

Every student at Berklee is given a Mac laptop so by building the Apple Store @ Copy Cop's location they have 3000+ Mac users living about two blocks away.

Also, the Berklee Uchida building is three or four doors down from Copy Cop. Makes sense.

I would like to see a Providence Apple Store but am not holding my breath.

 

[Sayhey]

I would like to see a Providence Apple Store but am not holding my breath.

It's coming. Apple is recruiting employees today for the store in Providence Place Mall. Should open by July/August at the latest.

 

[Noah330]

WOW! That's great.

An Apple Store minutes from my office in Boston and minutes from home in Providence!

 

[cycocelica]

NYC needs an Apple Store. It would be even cooler if it was open 24 hour, not that I know why but its New York, it has to be. But a 4 story Apple store?! I could stay in that forever.

 

[Sayhey]

NYC needs an Apple Store. It would be even cooler if it was open 24 hour, not that I know why but its New York, it has to be. But a 4 story Apple store?! I could stay in that forever.

Sounds like a cool idea. Too bad it will never happen.

 

[cycocelica]

Sounds like a cool idea. Too bad it will never happen.

haha one can only hope.

 

[Counterfit]

Not sure if it has been mentioned but Berklee College of Music is about two blocks from the site of the new Apple Store they are planning in Boston.

When I went to Berklee, I never got out to Chestnut Hill where the Apple Store is now.

Every student at Berklee is given a Mac laptop so by building the Apple Store @ Copy Cop's location they have 3000+ Mac users living about two blocks away.

Also, the Berklee Uchida building is three or four doors down from Copy Cop. Makes sense.

Are Berklee students somehow incapable of riding the Green Line? Cambridge (especially the Galleria) is much closer than Chestnut Hills.

 

[yac_moda]

I think Apple is working with Disney Imagineers to build robots that will do all the work in the 24 hours stores.

I doubt if any of those store positions are going to be filled -- by people anyway.

 

[Noah330]

Are Berklee students somehow incapable of riding the Green Line? Cambridge (especially the Galleria) is much closer than Chestnut Hills.

To get to Cambridge Galleria from Berklee you have to walk over to the green line then ride a train all the way out to Lechmere. Just the round trip train ride takes about 2 hours when you figure in how long you have to wait for a train @ Hynes and then again at Lechmere.

I think I went to the Cambridge Galleria about 3 times in the 6 years I lived in Boston.

It's not that anyone is incapable of doing that, just that it's a big headache. I know Berklee had about 1400 students when I went there and now has more than 3000. I also now that every student has a PowerBook.

CopyCop (proposed location of Mac Store) is literally five or six doors down from Berklee's Uchida building and two or three blocks from the Mass Ave building that houses most of the dorms. It is in between the Comm Ave dorms.

It makes sense for Apple to build here because there is a built-in customer base. Add to that Berklee has a world-renowned reputation and is for the most part all Mac.