Apple Store in Rice Village would be perfect.
Maybe one downtown too, since it's getting busier.
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Rumored Houston Retail Store Grand Opening Sparks Speculation of iPad 3 Launch on March 16
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Maybe one downtown too, since it's getting busier.
It's amazing how (some) people assume the big A never considered things like this. Stuns me, but then, this is a place where everybody has an opinion, kinda like at a bar...after midnight or so.
It would be nice to have another one in Fort Worth...I can't complain though, my Apple Store is literally 3 minutes from where I live.
Dallas has three stores, Fort Worth has one, as of right now.
Maybe I misread it. But if I am understanding this correctly, people think the iPad 3 is coming out on March 16th because ONE store launch date got moved from the 17th to 16th?
Why not? If thge store was scheduled to open on Saturday the 17th (which is typical for new Apple stores) and the # of days between Apples iPad 3 press event and the 16th falls in line with typical product launches. Why would it be SO far fetched to think Apple would move up the store opening date by 1 day to coniencide with the iPad 3 launch? The fact that it's "ONE store" means absolutely nothing. I believe that this is absolutely the reason they pushed it back a day.
Store Design
IMHO the Lincoln Center Store is beautiful but dysfunctional. It's impossible to have a conversation in the place when it's busy (noise) and better do your shopping at night when you can actually see the laptop and iPad screens without the enormous glare from all the sunlight. I don't get it. We have access to 4 stores in manhattan and two or three more nearby. As nice as the neighborhood is and as beautiful the store is it's always my last choice of locations.
IMHO the Lincoln Center Store is beautiful but dysfunctional. It's impossible to have a conversation in the place when it's busy (noise) and better do your shopping at night when you can actually see the laptop and iPad screens without the enormous glare from all the sunlight. I don't get it. We have access to 4 stores in manhattan and two or three more nearby. As nice as the neighborhood is and as beautiful the store is it's always my last choice of locations.
People are making a big deal out of it because last year, the iPad 2 was announced on Wed., March 2 and available on Fri, March 11. If it follows this year, it'd be the 7th and 16th.
You know, I was thinking the same thing, however, I can wait in line with the March Madness App, then get the iPad and start watching games on there.
Then I hope the photo isn't that recent. It doesn't look like it'll be ready in time let alone early.
You are wrong
Half of the staff is from other stores around Houston and the other half have been training at existing stores for 6 months now.
Half of the staff is from other stores around Houston and the other half have been training at existing stores for 6 months now.
Until this summer when the Houston humidity combined with the air conditioning its gonna take to keep that place cool causes condensation on that glass roof.
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LOL.
It seems like the Apple stores in Houston always double as saunas. The one in the Galleria is really narrow. The one in The Woodlands is always packed, with lots of bright lights and little A/C by Houston standards...I'm not a heavy guy but I'm always sweating bullets in that store.
First world problems!
LOL.
It seems like the Apple stores in Houston always double as saunas. The one in the Galleria is really narrow. The one in The Woodlands is always packed, with lots of bright lights and little A/C by Houston standards...I'm not a heavy guy but I'm always sweating bullets in that store.
First world problems!
They have been training staff for months at the Memorial City, Houston stores and other stores in the area. I went to an iCloud class with a friend just after Christmas and the guy training the class said they were in training for a new store in Highland Village. FYI
Glad to see you know the difference between fact and rumor
Even if it is true, they would likely have that staff working at other stores (if not transferred from said stores) so they know the systems and given that launch day will likely jut be iPad sales and nothing else, how hard is it to teach them one product (that is at least 50% identical to a current one). If they can't learn that then they are probably to dumb to work at Apple
The neighboring buildings look like something out of a wild west saloon town. The Apple store looks a little out of place in both design and time.
There's a new sherif in town boys.
The Galleria is more frequently congested, this location would be more convenient for me.
You have taken't the "environmentally aware architecture" classes yet, have you?
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Actually, I am putting the horse 2 carts ahead of the cart. I was thinking of the rumors of iPad shipments already rolling and coming here as of at least several days ago. So they will be here in time for the unveiling.
We'll see what happens, but I doubt Apple is going to say "iPAD 3! LOOK AT IT!... but you can't have it: we don't want to open cartons until March 16th." Which makes it look like they are waiting for the store, which was delayed a few months, then they figured out how to save a day because they found a truck of missing wood screws or something.
The store is opening earlier because they figured out they could. The iPad will probably be released sooner and they are trying to open up ASAP to get as close as possible to the release date. Everyone else looks at this as the store coming before the mega-corporation's earnings.
...and walls
The roof and the walls...
My first visit to Houston was in mid-August. I thought that it was odd that many of the downtown sidewalks were wet, even though there had been no rain.
I shortly realized that the water was running down the sides of the air-conditioned office towers - condensation.
I hope that this building design was finalized during the "old regime", and that the Tim is going to be more flexible in adapting store design to the site.
(The Amsterdam store is a great example of how to fit a landmark store into an neighbourhood - but that was constrained by local historical district preservation laws.)
Until this summer when the Houston humidity combined with the air conditioning its gonna take to keep that place cool causes condensation on that glass roof.
The roof and the walls...
My first visit to Houston was in mid-August. I thought that it was odd that many of the downtown sidewalks were wet, even though there had been no rain.
I shortly realized that the water was running down the sides of the air-conditioned office towers - condensation.
I hope that this building design was finalized during the "old regime", and that the Tim is going to be more flexible in adapting store design to the site.
(The Amsterdam store is a great example of how to fit a landmark store into an neighbourhood - but that was constrained by local historical district preservation laws.)
Maybe I misread it. But if I am understanding this correctly, people think the iPad 3 is coming out on March 16th because ONE store launch date got moved from the 17th to 16th?
People in general don't think this. MacRumors do. Hence the article you read about it.
FINALLY! a standalone store, now i don't have to deal with parking and elevators at the Galleria every time i need to go to the Apple store.
This is maybe 7 miles from my house, so i'm excited.
This is maybe 7 miles from my house, so i'm excited.