“It’s a flagship consumer electronics store on Sydney’s George Street with smiling blue shirt-wearing sales staff, a minimalist design and smartphones and tablets that invite customers to pick up and play,” Asher Moses reports for The Sydney Morning Herald.
“But according to Samsung, the new store – just a block from Apple’s Sydney store – was all its own idea,” Moses reports. “The company, renowned as a “fast follower” of the market leader, is doing little to dispel the notion that it is an Apple copycat.”
Moses reports, “The store at 450 George Street opened at 8am today when Samsung also began selling its new tablet computer, the Galaxy Note 10.1. The 16GB WiFi version – which has a stylus for writing/drawing and can run dual apps in split screen mode – is priced at $589.”
MacDailyNews Note: Here are a couple of reviews:
• Engadget reviews Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1: Cheap, inferior, ultimately disposable feel – August 15, 2012
• The Verge reviews Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1: A disappointing Android tablet – August 15, 2012
Moses reports, “Everything from the store layout to the sales staff to the products and even the packaging and promotional material is uncannily Apple-esque… Samsung Australia’s vice-president of telecommunications, Tyler McGee, said Apple ‘didn’t even come into the equation when we were looking for a location [for the store].’ But come on, the layout of the store is pretty similar, right? ‘Well, if you look at our layout this is the layout that we use around the world and it’s about basically giving the consumers the opportunity to interact, learn and play with our devices,’ McGee said.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Hopefully, they copied Apple Store NorthPark.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz,” “MizuInOz,” “chris,” “Murray68,” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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All I can say is, “Oh my God!?!?” When will the blatant copying and ripping off ever end?
It’s one thing to have your own store, it’s quite another ripping off the concept for your store from the Apple store, right down to the way the product is displayed, to the blonde Scandinavian wood for the tables, to the way the sales staff are dressed, to the brightly lit large pictures of the products on the walls. Everything is a derivative of the Apple store.
Do these people not have an iota of original thought in their cranial cavity?
Makes me sick.
Are they really that desperate that they can’t come up with their own ideas??
Jesus.
They’ve lost a customer for life. And I will always promote apple to everyone and make sure people I speak to know the truth about how despicable SameDung are.
Just seen the new nexus advert, I’ve been using macs for donkeys years and it even had me fooled abit.
I thought it was an apple advert right until the end.
The guy he is interviewing is acting just like Ballmer did when he was first interviewed about the iPhone. Glassy eyed, not really listening, just waiting to regurgitate whatever his superiors told him to say if asked such questions.
‘The guy’:
Is either a soulless shill with no conscience,
OR,
He takes a lot of antacid tablets to get through the river of bullshit he has to shovel every day.
No shame, no shame at all. Pathetic!
Instead of a “Genius Bar” maybe they have a “Sheenius Bar”?
One thing Apple stores have that this one doesn’t – customers.
Yep, it’s a dead set copy.
Even if you tart up a piece of shit, it’s still shit! I bet their after sales service is still shit. I had to return my Samsung phone 17 times at $15.90 each time and every time they returned it saying nothing wrong. I took a day off work, drove to head office with phone in hand heating to 125 celcius and put in the hand of manager she dropped phone and burnt hole in carpet WHILE smoking. She said it was hot. I said but you keep telling me that’s normal operating conditions when using GPS. It took me 17 returns, 1 car trip and 7 months to get a single replacement.
Then the iPhone 3GS was announced and I’ve never looked back.
Really? You’ve never been to a Sony store, or Bang and Olufsen?
Let me guess: you believe Apple invented electricity too, yes?
Been to both. Sony store is nothing like Apple’s. It is quite a bit better than Bestbuy but absolutely nothing like Apples store. B&O is a bit ike Bose but again nothing like Apples.
At least we know where to send Browett.
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