Apple to celebrate grand opening of newest retail store in Friendswood, Texas on Saturday, May 12

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Apple StoreApple will celebrate the grand opening of Apple Store Baybrook on Saturday, May 12, 2007 at 10am CDT.

Address:
Apple Store Baybrook
500 Baybrook Mall
Friendswood, Texas

To celebrate the Grand Opening, Apple is featuring a week of exciting events. In the store, Apple will have a variety of unique and educational presentations, demonstrations and workshops — all free of charge.

The first 1000 people to visit the Apple Store receive a free Apple t-shirt and all visitors can enter the Grand Opening Sweepstakes to win a Digital Lifestyle Collection valued at $2573.95. One Grand Prize winner will receive a black 13-inch 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo MacBook, one-year One to One membership, an iPod nano, an iPod Hi-Fi, iWork, one-year membership to .Mac, and an AppleCare Protection Plan for MacBook. Ten First Prize winners each will receive a one-year ProCare membership.

More info: http://www.apple.com/retail/baybrook/

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  6. Baybrook Mall is between Houston and Galveston. More specifically, it’s *VERY* close to NASA’s Johnson Space Center and all the money that the employee/residents in that area represent. While you may not know where it is, this store opening represents Apple’s strategic thinking at its best.

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  9. The mailing address is Friendswood because the mall is on the west side of I-45 – the east side is inside the City of Houston limits, or the limits of the small town of Webster. Thanks to Houston annexing property, the post office addresses get nice and confused.

    The good news is that with the CompUSA closing, and the iPhone coming, this should be a huge store for all of the NASA area, the petrochemical plants on this side of town, all of the development in Galveston County, Brazoria County, etc. The nearest Apple store is the Galleria store about 30 minutes away so it will help sales.

    Baybrook Mall is the second highest trafficked mall in all of greater Houston, so this should be a prime spot. Since I live about two miles away, I’ll be in line – I’ll have my Steelers chair with me ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”wink” style=”border:0;” />

    MDN Magic Word “question” – don’t question the store being there, just come buy something from it ” width=”19″ height=”19″ alt=”wink” style=”border:0;” />

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  12. Hey Bizarro Balmer I have seen some Macs here at NASA but you have “justify” their use. I have been using my own personal laptop doing IT work for the ESCG contract and now that NASA is not allowing personal machines on their network I cannot get them to approve the use of Macs….so the wincrap culture is still extremely strong here and the admins do not want to support them.

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  14. I can’t belive they’re opening a store in a place called FriendsWood right next to a space center called Johnson, and 90% of the posts are about windows and NASA and the fact that friendswood is actually right next to Houston. What’s wrong with you people.

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  20. Macs used to have a very strong presence at NASA. Today the overall presence of Macs is much lower than in the early 90’s, but the situation appears to be improving as evidenced by a much higher number of Apple laptops visible at NASA meetings/conferences.

    The Mac situation also varies quite a bit by NASA center, and even within the divisions and branches at each field center. In some branches, employees were able to keep their Macs despite substantial IT pressure to go Windows. Now the tide appears to be turning.

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