Mini Apple Stores?

MongoTheGeek said:
Don't go bustin' on the BeeHive.
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there are alot of Pgh alums in here! i thought the BeeHive was some weird goth coffee house. anyone ever pee in the fountain at the point?
 
scem0 said:
I hope one comes to Austin, Texas but I'd prefer it not be a 'mini' store :(.

Apple can get a LOT of business from Austinites. Austin currently has it's share of Apple users, but Dell (who is headed from Austin) is taking over :(. Apple needs a major store to compete. iBooks and iPods would fly off the shelves to college students, powerbooks to business people, and everything in between to everyone in between.

I think Apple could make a lot of money by bringing a major store to Austin, Texas.

scem0
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scem0,

there is a regular store opening soon (before September) at the Barton Creek Mall in Austin. It has been discussed for a while in these threads.

This rumor of a mini store at UCLA is also about a month old. Hope it pans out and is a start of stores in a lot of new locations.
 
Releated To ITMS?

Trowaman said:
See, there are small carts set up in my mall back home and my dad and I figured that a small Apple stand on one of those carts would be wonderful. Dell has one and it does wonderfully. A small Apple cart would be genious in a mall.
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That's exactly what came to mind when I read the story. I think that Apple is already doing well in the education market and could really boost sales, especially iPods and ITMS. I remember hearing a rumor that Apple might try to team up with various campuses to promote ITMS. Could this be part of that promotion?
 
That's cool!

It's great if Apple is placing "mini" stores at colleges, and mall kiosks and such. It will certainly help places that don't have Apple stores yet. The good thing about having "mini" stores at college campuses is that students and faculty can get a superior computer, running a superior operating system at an academic discount. :) At my university we have a computer store at the student union that sells and services Apples; you can custom built any Mac from Apple.com. They don't have any stock of Macs and they not affilated with Apple Computers Inc. :(
 
Trowaman said:
See, there are small carts set up in my mall back home and my dad and I figured that a small Apple stand on one of those carts would be wonderful. Dell has one and it does wonderfully. A small Apple cart would be genious in a mall.
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Last month, I was visiting Hollywood; and in the Hollywood/Highland complex where the Oscars were held, there was one of these carts, called an "iPod Station", I think. I couldn't tell if it was owned by Apple or a third party, but the font on the store sign made it look like it was Apple.
 
Sweet, this can help provide links to Apple in areas that don't have huge SF scale stores. Two points - Apple
 
Really? A salesperson at the King of Prussia store told me that with a student ID I could get all the discounts from the Apple Store. Maybe policy has changed.

morkens said:
Great idea- I hope they allow ed discounts.
I've tried to get the discount at an Apple store, but it was only available online. It would only make sense though- the higher ed near me offers the discount through the bookstore, but there's not much available and little sales help.

Go Apple!
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Edu discount

bubbagump said:
Really? A salesperson at the King of Prussia store told me that with a student ID I could get all the discounts from the Apple Store. Maybe policy has changed.
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I was in the KoP store and was told they only do edu discounts on HARDWARE....not software...I was in buying iLife and didn't want to wait on mail order, so I just bought it outright...but I was specifically told that edu discount is only valid on hardware.
 
just how mini is mini???

at the DC "geekfest" we stopped in at an apple store close to DC (not sure where exactly) but i wouldn't say it was exactly big...
 
evoluzione said:
just how mini is mini???
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...Think iPod mini...

But seriously, I think this would be cool. Or teams of Macheads who could work with a regional Apple sales rep to do promotions on their respective campuses. We just started a Mac User Group within the past year at our school and we helped out with the Study On...Rock On campaign as well as the demo days at our school.
 
Tallahassee could certainly use either a mini or a full store. We have two major universities (FSU and FAMU), a large community college (TCC), and the capital of Florida. Apple, tap into us!
 
Not all colleges so blessed...

ryanw said:
Uh, I wonder what the 3rd party vendors feel about this. It seems logical to me to have Apple working with already current presenses on campus to promote products. Every campus has a computer store. I think they need better relations with the already present stores.
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Not true! Many small colleges don't sell any electronic equipment. For example, I go to Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington, and I will personally guarantee there will not be any form of Apple store within 200 miles of this place for at least five years, if ever. :p

Spokane is home to half a dozen colleges, and is the biggest city between Seattle and the Twin Cities--where is Apple?
 
Arcata, California could use one. They people at the "Authorized" Resellers here don't seem to really know or care about their products. They all seem very unenthusiastic about the products they are trying to sell.

I don't know about this "mini" thing though, I want a full size one.

:) :rolleyes: :D
 
Maybe this is what they should also do for Foreign cities that they are not sure a SuperStore will make its money back with - Like Sydney! :p
 
yeah, it would be really good to see some mini Apple stores in Australia somewhere... like Brisbane! :D :p
 
For everyone's information, in the ACT (Australian Capital Territory), we have an Authorised Apple Education Reseller at one of the local university's (Australian National University).

As far as I know, this has been useful for uni students.

If Apple does do on-campus AppleCentre's, then the chance of income will increase.


On a side note, Apple has an AppleCentre in the big Sydney store of David Jones. When I first read about this, the article (in The Australian) said that Apple staff will help with the start of the AppleCentre (the only AppleCentre in a major retialler). David Jones also sells Apple products in other stores (iPod's are in nearly every store)
 
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evoluzione said:
just how mini is mini???
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Think vending machine:
Insert money, press button: iPod.

... kinda hard to do for anything larger than a big soda bottle.

It would take a very large vending machine to dispense a G5 TowerMac. :D
 
The Mini Apple Store will definitely give Apple more of a presence. That way we can get them while they are young.
 
I think that this is a really great idea. At Purdue if you want mac stuff you've either got to order it online or go to the apple store in Indy. This is kind of nuts when you figure that there's 30 some thousand students here. If we had just a little corner Apple store I'm sure that more people would at least look at the mac. Plus, they'd sell a ton of ipods. People always ask where I bought mine.

Physicsnerd
 
We've already got one here at Ball State University in Muncie, IN. It's in our CS building. It's just a little room with demo machines of everything in Apple's current line set up, and the educational pricing with them. Someone's there to help you with a loan for education, but they don't actually have anything in stock. It's just so people can check out the stuff. I think this was set up due to education majors being REQUIRED to purchase laptops, and RECOMMENDED that they purchase macs. It's kind of cool to go in and mess around on that stuff sometimes. Just wish they had more items in stock.
 
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