“The 24-hour Fifth Avenue (NYC) retail store will close its doors on Thursday afternoon, and then re-open early Friday morning, without explanation of why,” ifoAppleStore reports.
“The store’s on-line calendar shows none of the typical events after 1 p.m. on Thursday, or any events on Friday morning,” ifoAppleStore reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: The Apple Store Fifth Avenue webpage reads:
Please note: we will be temporarily closed Thursday, May 29 at 3:00 p.m. and will reopen Friday, May 30 at 9:00 a.m. During this time, please visit one of our other two Manhattan locations: Apple Store, SoHo, or Apple Store, West 14th Street.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Winston” for the heads up.]
Time to haul in the boxes of special products…
Or they need to do some housekeeping and work on the glass cube/stairs/elevator.
Someone should scope out what’s going on in and around there this afternoon. Maybe since the store is 24 hour, they need to shut down to prep the employees with iPhone 2.0 information? Usually this would be done after hours, right?
Probably some sort of networking / power supply upgrades…
Sewer leak.
Probably a rat or cockroach infestation in the office cafeteria.
@CHrisM
Uh…because they are open 24/7, there are NO “after hours.”
@ Alderbran
I think that was his point.
Well, the building next to it was just sold for some ridiculous amount… So perhaps that has something to do with it.
@Aldebaran
I think that was ChrisM’s point. Since there are NO after hours, they had to make special arrangements to close the store.
I step back and look at this article and can’t help but think: only with Apple!
Let’s imagine, for a moment, that Best Buy announces that one of its stores will be closed for a day. How much newsworthy would this be?
A retail store that is otherwise open 24/7 will be closed for 18 hours. This causes a flurry of activity online. By the time this day is done, there will be 40 or more comments in this thread, and many, if not most of them, will be speculation regarding the reason, mostlyl along the lines of “new iPhone is arriving”. I am pretty sure at least one will come from a devoted New Yorker who will trek over at 3:00 PM and report live via his iPhone. We’ll get data culled from FedEx or UPS, together with bills of lading from the US Customs, calculating the number of cartons/containers/boxes and their total volume, speculating on the exact size of an individual box, etc…
Aaah, the lives of us, Mac fans…
When Steve made the deal with Disney, he also got control of Walt Disney’s cryogenically frozen body. I believe they are making room for Uncle Walt in the center of the store. He’ll be in an ice “cube”, Steve’s favorite design.
Bring in those “electric computers”
A wall had to be painted fresh… Still good buzz making here! Ha! Ha!
@ ChrisM
Actually, as with the iPhone and per Apple policy, retail store staff did not officially know until mere hours before the launch (they were told about/trained on it during the shut down before the launch). This is probably just maintenance. Or to give their employees a break, seeing as they work 24/7…
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How do they clean and maintain the place if it got customers in 24 hour a day??? That’s a question I keep asking myself.
@ Mac+
That’s because Mac supporters are clean, sophisticated and well-mannered while Windows zombies are stinky walking piles of poo.
No offense, Ballmer.
Let the rumors begin!
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@ Predrag
Ant it wonderful?
@ Jimbo von Winskinhelmer
Too funny! I could get hurt laughing that hard.
It’s a flying car. Finally, in 2008, we get the flying car. It took a team of 342 engineers 15 years, each isolated from another, with no individual having full scope of the project until completion. We thought it was going to be Ford, or GM, or even Toyota that would be making this announcement, but only Apple, Inc. could accomplish such a feat.
It’s an engineering marvel; this flying vehicle with its matte black finish, blue LED headlights, chrome underside, and single logo: the Apple apple, in an ever-so slightly raised, smooth finish, right in front, but small, unlike any other hood ornament. Small semi-spherical bumpers for soft landings. This car has no engine, only tiny nanomolecules in the finish that absorb surrounding energy to create an anti-gravitational field so the car simply floats off into space without sound or exhaust.
The vehicle runs an embedded version of OS X, powered by 124 processors (half of those allocated to the triple redundant safety system) and receives wireless updates from the mother ship, err, Infinite Loop HQ over 802.11X draft 1.0, . It offers multi-touch technology as an interface over an all-glass interior. The display is a gorgeous panoramic that surrounds the user; as there are no windows; we are displaying sensor video on the panorama that follows the “driver’s” eyes to always show what’s ahead, no matter which direction the driver is facing (since the seats swivel on an armature).
And it is available today, for $19,999.
(sarcasm)
I heard from a supposedly good source who heard it from Z.T. that they are renting the place out to the Zune™ marketing group for training and development since there are no more iPhones to sell the customer flow is down to a trickle.
It was the least Steve Jobs could do to help Ballmer feel better after being so rejected by Yahoo! Can you imagine that there are people in this world that can’t be bought! Wow! (/sacarsm)
To continue the great hypothecation that is prevalent in this and most things MDN thread… I would say it is Don “comb-it-over” Trump’s birthday and he wanted to be able to browse the store without constant harassment from his adoring fans.
After all NYC is his town!
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Cheers!
@Maginary
And in two weeks when a 248 processor model is released there will be a $200 price reduction and all current owners will be given a gift certificate for free window cleaner with tiny nanobots who actually have a spray bottle and wipe cloths in hand.
Probably Inventory… Since they are a 24 hour store they have to close down for it
Does this mean there’s a G3 iPhone in my future… could beeeeee!
Since 5th avenue store opened, the only time they were closed (for two hours) was when they introduced the iPhone last year.
Since the store opened, they have refreshed their inventory hundreds of times. They don’t close store for this (there is more than one single entrance into the store…).
Even if they were to remodel/repaint anything in the store (as they have done before) they would just fence of that part of the store, put up scaffolding and some screening and continue to do business.
The store has way too much foot traffic to allow it to ever be closed for such long period of time. This must be something major, although it is still a question whether it is product-related at all.
“How do they clean and maintain the place if it got customers in 24 hour a day???”
Alien technology.