Another reason to leave the old stores alone is that opening new stores has higher marginal value. Not only does it expand Apple’s geographical reach, but also every opening is a spectacle, generating more free press coverage and arousing consumer interest.

Still, those old, crowded stores need attention because ultimately Apple is a brand, one that needs sparkle to work its magic. Apple’s focus seems to be on conquering new lands, but it needs to keep the home fires burning too.

Personally, I’m avoiding Apple Stores right now, because I know the next time I walk through the door it’s going to cost about $3000 to get back out. In the past six months Apple has made every one of my very capable pieces of Apple hardware seem old, heavy and clunky. And they’re accelerating the process!! Damn you, Tim Cook and all your toiling minions!

“This is a Mac news site. On that count alone, fuck off.”

All hail Emporer Oscumbo the Kenyan!

It’s just been downhill ever since then.

We all might be far better off if there were… by which, I mean Wall Street being connected to reality.

once you go black…(apple is in the black too ; )
or once you taste caviar, you don’t go back

case closed.

I bet it will STILL outsell the other dudes, perhaps not to the level of twice Tiffany’s but still outsell them.

that’s because they have products people WANT

man, people line up on start day at run down god awful ugly miserable phone stores to get an iPhone, and others go there every day to see if they have stock. The reason those phone stores don’t make more per square foot is that they also have bins of black berries etc that nobody wants that they have to write off , deal with android returns (many times higher than the iPhone) and waste time on support ( “how do I load my desktop MS Office onto this Windows Phone? Windows is unified right? )

When a company such as Apple only warrants a P/E of 12.94 yet Microsoft has a P/E of 14.97, you know Wall Street has already declared Apple as having nearly no future.