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Microsoft Opens First New Retail Store in Scottsdale, Arizona
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckQ4Bshytn4&feature=related
That's a video of a recent opening of an Apple store in England. They have copied it down to every last bit, even the advert in the window looks like the million apps advert for the iphone.
That's a video of a recent opening of an Apple store in England. They have copied it down to every last bit, even the advert in the window looks like the million apps advert for the iphone.
The thing is Safari, and every other browser, will just hard lock and I have to force quit it. Then the crash reporter comes up and I submit. I had a text file to just copy the "what you were doing info" each and every time.
I know Adobe is looking into as well. I have a basic ADC but how much more attention can I give to this problem?
My bigger problem is that I can't keep my Spotlight comments. The only way to do that is upgrade from Leopard. I've tried Time Machine, Migration assistant, and even just copy/paste from an external hard drive.
They also took out the column view when doing a Spotlight search. That's another gamebreaker for me.
Why is this even "front page news" on a macrumors site? "FANBOYS ASSEMBLE"
"how dare microsoft open a store", "look they have windows and doors"
"and their employees are wearing clothes!! How pathetic? They got wearing clothes from apple stores" "look, there are displays! Apple did that first" "they have paper in their store, blatant apple rip off"
I think people just say pinhead type comments to fit in rather than make an opinion of their own. Its the dominate market share, not even close. And anyone thinking apple cares anything more than about their bottom line is smoking crack. If you don't like it, do go in, but seriously, this is why people make fun of mac "extremists". For a supposed Mac dedicated site, they sure do report a lot about the other guy.
"how dare microsoft open a store", "look they have windows and doors"
"and their employees are wearing clothes!! How pathetic? They got wearing clothes from apple stores" "look, there are displays! Apple did that first" "they have paper in their store, blatant apple rip off"
I think people just say pinhead type comments to fit in rather than make an opinion of their own. Its the dominate market share, not even close. And anyone thinking apple cares anything more than about their bottom line is smoking crack. If you don't like it, do go in, but seriously, this is why people make fun of mac "extremists". For a supposed Mac dedicated site, they sure do report a lot about the other guy.
Evidence that another Macrumours posters hasn't tried Windows 7....
One of the applications that I often run on all my Windows 7 x64 systems was built in March of 1999 (link time UTC 1999-03-05 05:26:28, some of the DLLs in the app were linked on 9 Dec 1998).
Note that this isn't a random .EXE from 10¾ years ago, it's running an application installer from 10¾ years ago, built for Windows 9x/NT4 - on a 64-bit Windows 7 system - and it "just works"®.
Name one Apple OS application (from Apple or a third party) that was built 10¾ years ago that will install and run on Apple OSX 10.6.... Just one....
the the irony is all the times i have gotten them its been from 3rd party software and drivers. It also demonstrates a need to bash the competitor to justify your purchase.
They also took out the column view when doing a Spotlight search. That's another gamebreaker for me.
Geeze, I didn't realize this until you mentioned it. What's the purpose of that? That totally sucks.
The thing is Safari, and every other browser, will just hard lock and I have to force quit it. Then the crash reporter comes up and I submit. I had a text file to just copy the "what you were doing info" each and every time.
I know Adobe is looking into as well. I have a basic ADC but how much more attention can I give to this problem?
My bigger problem is that I can't keep my Spotlight comments. The only way to do that is upgrade from Leopard. I've tried Time Machine, Migration assistant, and even just copy/paste from an external hard drive.
They also took out the column view when doing a Spotlight search. That's another gamebreaker for me.
Wait for 10.6.2. It's very stable and should be out in a couple days.
As far as Spotlight in column view. Won't happen.
And I don't know why that one little thing would be a deal-breaker because I can think of a lot more things more important than column view for Spotlight.
Spookyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckQ4Bshytn4&feature=related
That's a video of a recent opening of an Apple store in England. They have copied it down to every last bit, even the advert in the window looks like the million apps advert for the iphone.
It's exactly the same, only with bad teeth Woooting is so very un-English
Is there a single unique thought in that company, or in business as a whole. I also noticed Starbucks is starting to redesign their stores to look like Apple stores with out the Apple stuff.
I have a feeling that if MS copies the Apple model like this that it will likely fail. I wouldn't doubt it if they get people at the "Answer Bar" asking about iPods and the like.
I have a feeling that if MS copies the Apple model like this that it will likely fail. I wouldn't doubt it if they get people at the "Answer Bar" asking about iPods and the like.
It's probably the same droid responsible for removing/adding/removing firewire from Macbooks. The purpose ? Because he can.
To be honest that video looked like a parody of an Apple store. The amount of stuff they copied is law-suit worthy.
I'm not an Apple Fanboy, but I honestly don't see any point of these stores considering that Microsoft doesn't make computers. They make software. Software you can buy at any electronics store. I think even Wal-Mart may sell some Microsoft software.
It seems ridiculous and kind of stupid to open a store just to "compete" with the Apple store concept. We'll see what happens, but I doubt these stores will catch on.
I'm not an Apple Fanboy, but I honestly don't see any point of these stores considering that Microsoft doesn't make computers. They make software. Software you can buy at any electronics store. I think even Wal-Mart may sell some Microsoft software.
It seems ridiculous and kind of stupid to open a store just to "compete" with the Apple store concept. We'll see what happens, but I doubt these stores will catch on.
Apple likes to break my workflow each time. They broke it in Leopard and they're breaking it even more in Snow Leopard.
If I'm unable to migrate over my Spotlight comments to a new Snow Leopard Mac then I might as well never buy one again. I'm serious Apple switched me over with Spotlight and they're going to lose me with it as well.
Ironic how the stories about Microsoft get so much attention on a Mac forum. Even more than the product announcements a few days ago!
I wish I could visit Scottsdale again. I've been at the Fashion Mall once: The place was crawling with very nice women! They were everywhere! Seriously, there's no mall I've seen that beats this one regarding nice looking women.
I wish I could visit Scottsdale again. I've been at the Fashion Mall once: The place was crawling with very nice women! They were everywhere!
Seriously, there's no mall I've seen that beats this one regarding nice looking women.
Are you people blind?
The MS store looks nothing like an apple store.
1. The table tops are black unlike Apple.
2. The floors are oak instead of maple
3. The lanyard material is black instead of white.
4. They mostly sell MS software unlike apple who mostly sells apple software.
The MS store looks nothing like an apple store.
1. The table tops are black unlike Apple.
2. The floors are oak instead of maple
3. The lanyard material is black instead of white.
4. They mostly sell MS software unlike apple who mostly sells apple software.
To be honest that video looked like a parody of an Apple store. The amount of stuff they copied is law-suit worthy.
I'm not an Apple Fanboy, but I honestly don't see any point of these stores considering that Microsoft doesn't make computers. They make software. Software you can buy at any electronics store. I think even Wal-Mart may sell some Microsoft software.
It seems ridiculous and kind of stupid to open a store just to "compete" with the Apple store concept. We'll see what happens, but I doubt these stores will catch on.
What about their mice, keyboards, controllers, zune, and not to forget their Xbox? Doesn't that count as hardware???
Ironic how the stories about Microsoft get so much attention on a Mac forum. Even more than the product announcements a few days ago!
I wish I could visit Scottsdale again. I've been at the Fashion Mall once: The place was crawling with very nice women! They were everywhere!
waiting for the backlash on this post...
Nominated for top 10 posts of the day!
5)They will try and upsell you an xbox.
"It will link with your PC just fine."
does anyone else see the irony of the apple forums calling other folks dorks with all the lame unix end rant 
posts, LOLing and such? Who cares what they do in their store, you don't like it, don't go. I really liked the idea of printing on demand and wouldn't mind being able to test drive their office suites prior to purchasing, but i plan on getting the action pack anyways, but still be nice to test drive them.
posts, LOLing and such? Who cares what they do in their store, you don't like it, don't go. I really liked the idea of printing on demand and wouldn't mind being able to test drive their office suites prior to purchasing, but i plan on getting the action pack anyways, but still be nice to test drive them.
To be honest that video looked like a parody of an Apple store. The amount of stuff they copied is law-suit worthy.
I'm not an Apple Fanboy, but I honestly don't see any point of these stores considering that Microsoft doesn't make computers. They make software. Software you can buy at any electronics store. I think even Wal-Mart may sell some Microsoft software.
It seems ridiculous and kind of stupid to open a store just to "compete" with the Apple store concept. We'll see what happens, but I doubt these stores will catch on.
They make software and hardware and are setting up stores to sell it. Even if the stores didn't sell computers (they do sell computers!) they would still be viable as they would be selling the other products which Microsoft makes.
I don't understand your argument about Wal-Mart either. In the UK, Apple's products are sold in ASDA, which Wal-Mart owns. Does that mean Apple Stores shouldn't exist?
No one said anything about "competing" and I don't know why you added quotation marks to the word. No one can argue that Apple's stores haven't had huge success at selling computers, so why would Microsoft risk doing something else when they could produce something similar in the hope of getting comparable results?
If anything, the competition which this gives to Apple on the High Street will be great for people who like to buy Apple products. Innovations which Microsoft is bringing to its stores (like the on-demand disc printing stuff I mentioned earlier) can only have a positive effect on the experience which customers of Apple's stores get.