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Microsoft Opens First New Retail Store in Scottsdale, Arizona
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I recall people on here being almost offended that Apple employees were being poached, even when Apple's done the same thing. It's a little funny to me.
I wish there was even an Apple store near where I live. I have no idea where the closest one is. Maybe San Antonio or Corpus. I really would like to know what's it like to be in one of them :[
I am sitting in a coffee house in Sierra Madre, CA
No kidding... 13 out of the 14 laptops in here are MAC.
People who buy PCs are going to Frys or Best Buy or Costco to get it cheap.
These new stores will be floated to keep them going...
No kidding... 13 out of the 14 laptops in here are MAC.
People who buy PCs are going to Frys or Best Buy or Costco to get it cheap.
These new stores will be floated to keep them going...
Here's a funny video of an MS store employee demoing Surface:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cDNedIhVFs&feature=related
Employee: If you wanna see Blackberry
Customer: ...No that's a Samsung (points to it)
Employee: Oh yeah, but it's a Blackberry...
While not all Apple store employees are the best and brightest, you'd think MS could at least have their best tech geeks on hand for the grand opening.
Side note: I got to use Surface at my hotel in Atlanta a few days ago. While it's fun to play with, it felt like a big toy. If the hardware is $10k, how much does the custom software development cost, I wonder?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cDNedIhVFs&feature=related
Employee: If you wanna see Blackberry
Customer: ...No that's a Samsung (points to it)
Employee: Oh yeah, but it's a Blackberry...
While not all Apple store employees are the best and brightest, you'd think MS could at least have their best tech geeks on hand for the grand opening.
Side note: I got to use Surface at my hotel in Atlanta a few days ago. While it's fun to play with, it felt like a big toy. If the hardware is $10k, how much does the custom software development cost, I wonder?
Joke of the Day
What's the difference between Xerox and Microsoft?
Xerox knows how to make a good copy.
What's the difference between Xerox and Microsoft?
Xerox knows how to make a good copy.
It seems odd to me that Microsoft would brand themselves as cheaper and more affordable than Mac, and then place their first store square in the middle of the most affluent city in Arizona. "Snotts-dale". 
That "surface" UI is a bit unresponsive... iPhone must have a LOT less power than whatever is driving that display, and yet iPhone UI is fluid and snappy... so what is going on here?. Makes me chuckle to watch the videos where MS are showing off Win7 on touchscreen PCs, and you see some dude using his fingers to zoom & rotate a photo... it looks SO under-polished, it's almost scuffed!. The photo JUMPS (laggy too) and doesn't even have any core animation equivalent to rotate it in a pleasing, fluid way.
Way to go, Microcopycat. Not.
hey...
Were there even any customers???
it just looked like staff, staff, staff, a few plants and staff and those 3 corporate Microsoft dudes at the back in suits... [ or maybe they were the customers?????? ]
hahaha - nice try micros*ft
Were there even any customers???
it just looked like staff, staff, staff, a few plants and staff and those 3 corporate Microsoft dudes at the back in suits... [ or maybe they were the customers?????? ]
hahaha - nice try micros*ft
All Apple stores I wander into are always filled with customers, even if the other stores in the mall are dead.
If the only people in MS stores are those standing in line to resolve Vista problems at the answer bar, then this won't be such a good thing for MS.
Most MS software problems involve running virus programs and all sorts of things that take a long time. The lines might be pretty long.
If the only people in MS stores are those standing in line to resolve Vista problems at the answer bar, then this won't be such a good thing for MS.
Most MS software problems involve running virus programs and all sorts of things that take a long time. The lines might be pretty long.
jesus, why is everyone so insulting of the store, yea they did copy the idea from apple, but if things werent copied where would we be? I personally cant wait till they open a store in boston so i can go there
I honestly and genuinely feel that this stupidity by MS, is one of the final nails in the MS & Windows coffin. This is so much of a blatent ripoff that, legality aside, people are just gonna hear the name Microsoft and assosciate them with unimaginative and poorly thought out concepts. Was Vista not a big enough failure to make them cautious of empty promises upon which they so very obviously cannot deliver?.
Apple connect to their customers emotionally, without all that unnecessary shine and glitz that MS seem to think is the holy grail they are heading for. MS only see the SURFACE of the whole situation, then clone it and inject a sickly overdose of shiny rainbow coloured ghastly goo, and fiddly cluttered shiny icons, each competing for your attention like a classroom full of over excited ten year olds putting their hands in the air.
This is why MS' counterfeit OS will fail - they connect to the WRONG emotional side of their consumers... frustration, anger and contempt.
Apple connect to their customers emotionally, without all that unnecessary shine and glitz that MS seem to think is the holy grail they are heading for. MS only see the SURFACE of the whole situation, then clone it and inject a sickly overdose of shiny rainbow coloured ghastly goo, and fiddly cluttered shiny icons, each competing for your attention like a classroom full of over excited ten year olds putting their hands in the air.
This is why MS' counterfeit OS will fail - they connect to the WRONG emotional side of their consumers... frustration, anger and contempt.
Minus the customers.
What should we expect from a colossal case which houses cameras, infra red projectors, sensors, electronic engines, mechanical arms and moving parts,
powered by its current anemic specifications?:
Intel Core 2Duo @ 2.13GHz
2GB DDR2 RAM
250GB Sata Hard Drive
im not sure what theyre trying to accomplish with this store...like what really? theyre not a solutions based company...more like a gateway.
Apple has solutions.
idk...two things i dont care for (AZ & Microsoft) all in one neat little package i'll avoid
Apple has solutions.
idk...two things i dont care for (AZ & Microsoft) all in one neat little package i'll avoid
Nice to see who is a customer and who's an employee (think gaudily colored shirts on the employees
)