Boston and (24 hour) New York Apple Store

[Noah330]

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.

Yeah like the bartender from The Simpsons 'iZac' who had an iMac for a head a few years back!

 

[latergator116]

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 wonder why Apple lists the Lechmere stop on their website. Has anyone found the Science Park stop to be much closer?

 

[yac_moda]

Yeah like the bartender from The Simpsons 'iZac' who had an iMac for a head a few years back!

Dang me, I missed that !!!

It just like South Park says, EVERYTHING has already happened on The Simpsons !!!!!!!

 

[fotografica]

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.

Not to mention that BU and Northeastern are both in the immediate area as well..Apple doesn't spend thousands of $$$ on feasiblity studies of new store locations for nothing

 

[Counterfit]

It is indeed a good location for a new store. My previous school (Wentworth Inst. of Tech.) "gave" all the architecture students (over 50% of the students) new PBs with a crapload of software (Vectorworks, and such) the year after I left. And it's not too far from Berklee either.
As for the transit time, I only have been once since they put the bus section in, and it did take noticeably longer. But before that, I can't say it ever took me more than 45 minutes to get there. And I'm pretty sure the MFA stop gets fewer trains than Hines.

I wonder why Apple lists the Lechmere stop on their website. Has anyone found the Science Park stop to be much closer?

According to Google Earth, my walking path from Lechmere is about 1364.94 feet. My (probable) walking path from Science Park to the Galleria would be about 3285.94 feet. Slightly longer, since you have to walk the entire length of the Museum AND its garage.

Not to mention that BU and Northeastern are both in the immediate area as well.

And MassArt, which is already a Mac haven anyway.

 

[latergator116]

According to Google Earth, my walking path from Lechmere is about 1364.94 feet. My (probable) walking path from Science Park to the Galleria would be about 3285.94 feet. Slightly longer, since you have to walk the entire length of the Museum AND its garage.

Thats weird. I must have gotten off at the wrong stop then. Either that or I get lost, because I can never find my way around Cambridge

 

[Counterfit]

I had trouble finding it too my first time going. Of course, it didn't help that the several people we asked all told us different directions (which were all wrong too, except the last one )

 

[iHeartTheApple]

Why? Why does Boston need another Apple sotre? I'm glad I guess, but we already have North Shore, Burlington, Chestnut Hill, and Cambridgeside. I know we are very education heavy here, but, I don't know. It just seems like too much.

But who am I kidding. It'll be up the street from my work, so I'll go.

-p-

This will be too much for me to handle...I've got Cambridgeside 1 mile from my school (MIT), Chestnut Hill 1 mile from my home and now the Boylston store will be on my way home...Amazing! I can't wait...I hope they sell t-shirts and the like. Also, it'll allow me to blend in for the first month or two without the staff recognizing me as with the two abovementioned locations...I'm like a regular...(how sad, *cries*). =/ Darn you Apple, for making me so willing to spend my money!