Hate from Chicagoans? Everyone I know here loves it, and all of the comments I've seen online have been positive as well. Guess you saw something other than what I've been seeing.
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Jony Ive Says Apple's New Flagship Chicago Store is About 'Reviving Important Urban Connections'
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Hate from Chicagoans? Everyone I know here loves it, and all of the comments I've seen online have been positive as well. Guess you saw something other than what I've been seeing.
Hey Jony Ive, it's time to get back to focusing on your products. Your iPhones, including the X, look antiquated next to the competition. Get your head out of your ass, mate!
No, I am explaining what has happened since she took over. She has taken a successful model and moved it into the stratosphere. Sorry, but she is not a failure at running Apple retail
I have only Apple and have for 15 years or more.
I like Apple stuff. I made that clear.
I just think their environmental-lovefest is pure marketing nonsense.
They are a cut-throat profit-driven company with a brilliant marketing division.
I do not like all of their environment drivel and activism.
Pure nonsense. Smoke and mirrors.
Get serious.
Make computers.
Make money.
Repeat.
I am sure some will disagree, and you are exactly why Apple uses their marketing the way they do.
Somehow, you feel like you are part of their philanthropy.
Actually, you are merely part of the profit-driven scheme.
I am all for profit.
Just like Apple.
Long live Gordon Gecko.
Sorry you can't see it. The stores are not significantly different today than from day 1.
The roof is thin but the building isn't thin enough. Make it thinner and it'll be a sharp looking bridge for cultural connection.
I agree to a point. Angela has been making iterative changes to the stores, some of which are not great - including trying to not call them stores. They're stores, even if they're more than that. They're not a library, even though you can go there and read and learn (about Apple products) and they're not a school, even though you can go to a class to learn how to use your new device / app / software.
I loved when they created the ability to scan and pay for product without any employee intervention, although it's always been the case that you need an employee to help with iPhones, iPads, MBP's, iMacs, etc. It does seem a bit strange to have employees focused specifically on iPhone, even given the sales volume vs all other devices, but I would think because of the limited offering ALL employees would be capable of selling iPhones and every other device in the store. If it was an issue of servicing an iPhone, I can see how that might be better to have a specific tech person, but that's clearly not what you were in for.
The other issue that makes it that much more difficult to deal with Apple stores, is that they're seemingly always too busy. I'm in an area where within 30 minutes I can shop at any of more than a dozen stores and even when I've purposely gone to what I hoped would be a slower location, more out of the way from where I live, they still are packed with people.
As opposed to a church being something more than just a building with some religious paraphernalia? And I would choose visiting an Apple Store to visiting a church most of the days.
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The hate is not from Chicagoans, believe me. We love the new store and will I will be there tomorrow for the Grand Opening.
The hate is from the same people who come here to complain and spread negatively. Just like they do in response to anything else by Apple. Ignore them - they are sad and angry people with nothing going for themselves in their lives.
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It will be nice if you can revive the entire Apple hardware line up.
Latest Macbook Pro was a fiasco
Mac Pro - Another fiasco
Mac mini 3 years to update.
iMac - They only updated the internals. No major re-design. Compare the design to the latest Surface Studio Pro. Microsoft is years ahead. Monitor can tilt, touchscreen, WAY much better than the iMac.
Truly embarrassing...
Latest Macbook Pro was a fiasco
Mac Pro - Another fiasco
Mac mini 3 years to update.
iMac - They only updated the internals. No major re-design. Compare the design to the latest Surface Studio Pro. Microsoft is years ahead. Monitor can tilt, touchscreen, WAY much better than the iMac.
Truly embarrassing...
A: Hey, let's meet at the Apple Town Square.
B: Where?
A: The Apple Town... I mean the Apple Store. Just meet me at the Apple Store.
B: But why should we meet at an Apple Store? Cracked your iPhone screen again?
A: I just wanted to hang out for a bit. Maybe have a seat, meet some interesting people, you know?
B: Ehm, no? Why would you want to hang out at an Apple Store?
A: Because it's a place to gather and... okay, fine. Let's just meet at your place instead.
B: Cool. See you.
Every Apple store is a unique concept. They're all different save for the original Mini stores. Even the 30' stores, all of them are unique. I can't wait to visit this new one.
Really? Has Amazon ever issued a dividend? Or perhaps there are other ways an investment in a company makes you money. Share price, for instance.
How long until they introduce Apple Cafe? You know with their "vision of the future" someone has suggested it and they're all working on it. LOL
I used to work in that area in a long ago career. It was an historic but dumpy area. But it's quite the economic engine right now, and this will add to it.
No matter what other issues many seem to think Apple has, there is simply no denying that this is a spectacular space from a design perspective. It's WOW! How it performs as an actual retail space will be interesting.
How ridiculous. All phones basically look the same these days. The X is actually different because it doesn’t copy what everyone else is doing i.e. bezel on the top and bottom.
Every snowflake is unique too, but in the end it is still just a snowflake.
Beautifully summarised. He's like a magician, distract the audience so that when something mundane is revealed, it seems, well, magical...
I know it’s a store, but people there do seem happy, as they do at the Church I go to.
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In Washington, I’d walk by the Microsoft “store” at the Alderwood Mall, and while it is in a high traffic area, there are a few people around it, while 100 yards away, at the Apple Store, it is packed with people. If the Apple Store was an empty edifice, I’d be upset, but since they aren’t, I say it is money well spent.