“Today’s a big day in suburban Colorado. Microsoft is coming to town, opening a new front in its well-publicized retail war with Apple,” Tim Beyers reports for The Motley Fool.
MacDailyNews Take: A “big day” for whom, exactly? And, some “war,” Tim. Microsoft has three empty boxes that have to dangle free concert tickets to get people to come to their opening vs. Apple’s 250+ retail store worldwide network that makes billions of dollars and generates long lines of people at grand openings and product releases, no concert tickets required.
Beyers reports, “I’m here, surveying the event and somewhat lengthy line, which appears to be comprised of as many fans of Disney Channel’s Demi Lovato as Microsoft technology. Why? The first 1,000 shoppers get tickets to a Lovato performance on Saturday at the Park Meadows Mall, where Apple and now Microsoft both have retail operations.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Those three empty Microsoft Retail Stores are symbolic of a failed, visionless, derivative company. That said, “May Microsoft shareholders remain catatonic, so Steve Ballmer can remain Microsoft CEO for as long as it takes!”
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “iWill” for the heads up.]
they’ll do great if they sold copier machines…(ouch)
Colorado is a state and a rather large and rugged one at that it’s where I live, Denver is a city in this state that has many suburban areas, Colorado the state doesn’t have suburban areas Jim, you dumb ass frigtard.
Do they still dance?
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/microsoft-store-employees-break-out-in-dance-video/
“opening a new front in its well-publicized retail war with Apple”
A secret war.
That Apple doesn’t know about.
Where one side has three stores all in the US.
And the other has 283, with 62 outside of the US.
I know the figures for Windows vs. OS X, but let’s face it; in retail, Apple is a hyper-power (like the US, but without the debt) and Microsoft is like The Vatican (but with fewer people wearing silly hats).