Today Marks the 15th Anniversary of Apple's First Two Retail Stores

[SteveW928]

Oh and by the way, I have no idea where you got that 14% from. His tape of cancer has a way higher chance of survival and cure (probably >70%).

One thing to note though, the survival percentages are often like 5 years, not necessarily long-term.

 

[BurpUrp]

**** cancer

 

[Junior117]

ResearchKit is great too if it really gets used.

It is being used, but the problem is that it's a US-only thing. If they expanded it beyond the US it would be a lot more used (I know that a bunch of universities in Canada would get a kick of it).

Well....before you call people uninformed, let me tell you a few things about pancreatic cancer.
Most pancreatic cancers are very aggressive and have a very, very poor prognosis (life expectancy of a few months). But there are many different types of pancreatic cancer, and it turns out that the one in particular that he had can indeed be cure with surgery, but only if done in a timely fashion (i.e. before its spreads all over you body). When he was diagnosed, his cancer was a curable stage. But he denied surgical treatment (he didn't want his body violated) and that is probably what the person who made that post meant. If that is the case, I totally agree with he/she.


Oh and by the way, I have no idea where you got that 14% from. His tape of cancer has a way higher chance of survival and cure (probably >70%).

You are welcome.

This. This was clearly mentioned in his bio. I'm not too sure how some people read past that.

 

[SteveW928]

This. This was clearly mentioned in his bio. I'm not too sure how some people read past that.

Part of that was clearly stated in his bio... the *assumption* that him waiting 9 months or whatever it was allowed cancer to spread through his body wasn't (nor is it medically accurate from what I've read, or posted above).

 

[patent10021]

15 years ago today, we opened our first 2 Apple stores. Now we have 478 stores worldwide and over 60k employees that make it all so magical. - Angela Ahrendts (@AngelaAhrendts) May 19, 2016

For some reason when she uses "we" I find it cringe worthy.

Thanks for everything Steve. I wish you were here to wow us again.
[doublepost=1463815793][/doublepost]Look at the red DEFCON phone! hahaha

 

[satcomer]

Man I remember walking in the first week to the new Apple Store in Virginia back in the day! I also remember getting a free 10.1 disk by showing I had a beta disk!

 

[Tycho24]

So when pointed out that you're wrong you resort to making up your own statistics to make yourself sound more credible and less wrong. Again...embarrasingly uninformed.

Ah yes, sarcasm. The sure fire resort for the insecure. The best type is the type you need to point out as sarcasm as if no one else is smart enough to understand.

I wasn't sure, so I read the Wiki on survival rates.
Okthxbye

 

[marco114]

Watching this video makes me thing Apple has lost touch of what was cool about the stores. There are so much more sterile now. I miss those cool bean bad chairs for kids and the movie section.

 

[SteveW928]

Watching this video makes me thing Apple has lost touch of what was cool about the stores. There are so much more sterile now. I miss those cool bean bad chairs for kids and the movie section.

Yep, and not just cool, but actually good and useful for the patrons. User-experience! The 'new' Apple is about profits, the 'bottom line,' fashion and being trendy, marketing tactics, etc. Can anyone explain how any of those things are focused on user-experience? They aren't. And, as far as I can tell, neither is Apple anymore, at least ultimately. Steve was. Sure, he ALSO cared about their profitability and success, but he got that as a result of user-experience.

Yes, Steve was brilliant, but this isn't exactly rocket-science. It's true business 101. But, that's not the business 101 they teach in business school, apparently. And, it's not the business 101 that the folks who nearly ran Apple into the ground in the mid-90s were employing either. The 'new' Apple looks increasingly like the Apple of the 90s, just with a lot higher starting position (I think people forget Apple was pretty successful before that as well).

 

[ThinkDifferent.]

With news like this in today's USAToday about apple, I wonder how long Tim hood will be able to hang on.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money...es-loss-four-times-worse-than-enron/84350200/

Did you watch the video that went along with the article? Jim Cramer had to have been on drugs.

 

[JHUFrank]

Apple store employees today, as soon as they sniff you are familiar with the Mac ecosystem they try to snob you and walk away. They are looking for gullible people who are not familiar with memory/speed etc. so they can peddle their overpriced iPhones with bumps, slow retina MacBooks, neutered Mac mini and outdated Mac Pro with ancient 2011 Apple Display. They they will finish you off with Apple care, iCloud, gift cards etc.

There is definitely something to this post. I am a very experienced Apple consumer, and I know exactly what I want when I go in. Before Apple Pay was around, I would literally have to wave credit cards at Apple employees to get them to come take my money rather than hobnobbing with potential customers. Very frustrating customer service.