“Earlier this week, Apple officially announced that it will open its new Japanese store in Tokyo’s retail district of Shinjuku on April 7th,” Chance Miller reports for 9to5Mac. “Now, Angela Ahrendts is teasing that Apple has a lot more planned for Japan customers, with this store only being the beginning.”
“Apple’s retail head, Angela Ahrendts, offered an interview to Nikkei to talk about the company’s plans for Japan,” Miller reports. “As first noticed by Macotakara, the interview covers a so-called ‘five-year plan’ for Apple in Japan.”
MacDailyNews Take: We wouldn’t offer Nikkei on a roll next to a toilet, much less grant them an interview. Well, at least they serve a purpose by allowing Apple (and others) to purchase shares at what’s becoming an discount.
Currently “Apple has seven retail stores in Japan – though one is currently closed for renovations. The upcoming Shinjuku will make 8, but Ahrendts says more are coming,” Miller reports. “‘Starting with Shinjuku, we will open several new stores, and existing stores will undergo extensive renovation,’ she said.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Congrats, Japan, and much more Apple goodness to come!
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And how are monopolies lost? Think about it. Some very good product people invent some very good products, and the company achieves a monopoly. But after that, the product people aren’t the ones that drive the company forward anymore. It’s the marketing guys or the ones who expand the business into Latin America or whatever. Because what’s the point of focusing on making the product even better when the only company you can take business from is yourself? So a different group of people start to move up. And who usually ends up running the show? The sales guy. John Akers at IBM is the consummate example. Then one day, the monopoly expires for whatever reason. But by then the best product people have left, or they’re no longer listened to. And so the company goes through this tumultuous time, and it either survives or it doesn’t. Look at Microsoft — who’s running Microsoft? (interviewer: Steve Ballmer.) Right, the sales guy. Case closed. And that’s what happened at Apple, as well.
— from The Seed of Apple’s Innovation, Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek, 12 Oct 2004
Angela is a ‘sales guy’.
That was evident to me in 1985. Jobs said the same thing.
I hope Apple sent her to Japan on a one way ticket.