Disney Draws on Steve Jobs and Apple for Retail Store Makeover

[celtikmind]

I don't see what Disney's stores would benefit from the overly sterile and modernistic* look that applies to Apple Retail Stores? I'm just imagining bored kids with sad faces...

*Especially since most design fields consider themselves to be post-modernistic...

 

[RazHyena]

This article can mean only one thing:

New iMacs with Mickey Mouse ears!!

 

[flottenheimer]

Looking forward to sitting down on a bar stool asking questions at the Gyro Gearloose Bar.

 

[celtikmind]

This article can mean only one thing:

New iMacs with Mickey Mouse ears!!

It's the Mickey Mighty Mouse and the iMac!

 

[redkamel]

As basically one of the top two or three recognizable brands in the worlds (if not THE most recognizable) and with an outstanding history, a proper Disney store could be very well done. I am glad someone with vision and talent is actually getting involved. I doubt the stores will look anything like apple stores, and will hopefully be oriented to adults AND kids.

I hope they bring back their good items (like collectables, art pieces, and memoriabilia) as well as the hard to find stuff (like movie soundtracks and posters) along with the usual kid stuff. And please, get someone to design some clothes one can actually wear in public, like the employees get.

And my only complaint (because I can't resist) about the apple stores, is the people who are there. It used to be I could walk into an apple store and get someone knowledgable pretty quick. Now the place is full of old people, busy professionals, and "cool" people all with some problem they didn't even bother googling. And all the employees are kids and are trained to explain iphones and ipods, not understand that I have an actual OS malfunction (or whatever). It drives me nuts that I have to wait two days for a "Genius" appointment becuase all the people in front of me "accidentally deleted their photos" or their "playlists are gone".

 

[iphones4evry1]

If Disney actually wants to make this work, they will need to start selling iPhones, iPods, and Macs.

 

[blybug]

It drives me nuts that I have to wait two days for a "Genius" appointment becuase all the people in front of me "accidentally deleted their photos" or their "playlists are gone".

tru dat

 

[ThunderRobot]

That's nice.

Now could Apple take a hint from Disney and support Blu-ray in OS X properly please? It's embarrassing that Steve Jobs is on the board of Disney and releasing movies on a format that Windows can play fine, but his own company's OS can't.

Disney will go back to DVD only releases having realised that the Blu-ray licence is just a big bag of hurt.

 

[AidenShaw]

Disney will go back to DVD only releases having realised that the Blu-ray licence is just a big bag of hurt.

</sarcasm> tags obviously unnecessary...


http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multim...lu_Ray_Sales_to_Surpass_DVD_in_Two_Years.html

Disney Expects Blu-Ray Sales to Surpass DVD in Two Years.

[10/10/2008 11:56 PM]
by Anton Shilov


The Walt Disney Company said that even despite of the fact that sales of Blu-ray discs (BDs) represent only a fraction among sales of movies, the new-generation high-definition media will overtake conventional DVDs in just two years from now.

“Consumers will adopt the new technology much sooner than we think. It's right on the verge of becoming really big in the U.S., where in two years Blu-ray will eclipse DVDs,” said David Jessen, Disney vice-president of Blu-ray and DVD creative production, in an interview with the Toronto Star news-paper.