“Microsoft’s policy of shadowing Apple in its retail openings will reach a symbolic high in the near future as the company plans to open a location near Apple’s very first opened store,” Electronista reports.
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“New job listings have been asking for staff for a Microsoft store in McLean, Virginia,” Electronista reports. “The Windows developer hasn’t outlined a location but is likely to try for the Tysons Corner Center given its pattern of trying to get as close as possible to wherever Apple’s shops are located.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Waiting for Apple customers to slip and fall and hit their heads hard enough to wander into a store full of bad Apple knockoffs and overheating game consoles? We like their strategy. We like it a lot.
(Don’t worry, they’re not smart enough to deploy banana peels.)
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Jax44” for the heads up.]
Next headline: Microsoft to open store near second Apple store.
After that: Microsoft to open store near third Apple store.
And then: Microsoft to well… You get the point.
LOL! I can hardly wait for their 5th Ave store! But instead of a glass cube, what could they do?
BSOD cube!
+1000!
It will be built with plexiglass. Because it’s MicroOaf there will be a flaw and the clear plexiglass will turn yellow peepee color within weeks of completion.
I could see that being disastrous. Most photographed store, etc. They should make it be a square. Blue Square, sorta like the more famous Red Square. Or they could have squares to make it look the the Windows logo. At any rate, it would show how two-dimensional being a Microsoftie really can be.
You guys please stop it! I am still wiping coffee off my monitor from the BSOD comment!
Wait until the drug addicts move in and start shooting up in the MS store because it’s the quietest and most traffic free spot in town. They can crash out on the sofas and no one would even notice.
mafiasoft strategy is like the anemona strategy.