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- Microsoft Needs Amazing Stores to Compete With Apple, Itself
- Microsoft is coming closer to its much-anticipated retail launch, which is touted as a direct assault on Apple's highly successful retail stores. But the software giant faces a formidable challenge -- to woo customers away from Apple Stores its roll out must be super impressive, and it needs to convince...
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
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- Stacks Of Macs - Apple Stores - Brief Article
- APPLE STORES BEAR FRUIT.
- Research articles 2001-09-01
- Apple banks on retail stores
- Apple's new store on the Upper West Side opens on Saturday at 10 a.m.(Credit: Marguerite Reardon/CNET)NEW YORK - Apple hopes to grow its market share with an increasingly aggressive retail strategy that includes opening bigger stores in more locations.At a media preview of its fourth store here, which is located...
- News items 2009-11-12
- Apple Readies New N.Y. Store, Microsoft Mum About Retail Plans
- Apple plans to open an additional retail store in New York on Nov. 14, and says it will open 40 to 50 stores worldwide in 2010. Although Microsoft has said it will challenge Apple aggressively in the retail space, comments from Microsoft spokespeople seem to indicate that a wait-and-see approach...
- News items 2009-11-12
- Is Microsoft Store just a cheap Apple Store rip-off?
- By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Yesterday, Black Friday 2009, I drove 70 miles north from San Diego to Mission Viejo, Calif. My goal: To answer that question. In October, Microsoft opened two retail outlets , in Arizona and California, that do remind of...
- News items 2009-11-30
- Exclusive look at Apple's new iPod touch-based EasyPay checkout
- By Gary Allen, ifoAppleStore, Special to AppleInsiderPublished: 09:05 AM EST Related AppleInsider articles:Apple stores upgrading from Windows-based...Photos reveal spacious interior of second...Apple curbing retail expansion as segment...Apple stores to ditch Windows EasyPay systems...Hot Popcorn movies app to offer native ticket...ifoAppleStore Within two weeks, Apple stores will begin retiring their current...
- News items 2009-11-03
- Inside Apple's Newest Temple [Apple]
- While every Apple Store is in some sense a place of reverence, the new Upper West Side store unabashedly evokes that feeling, more than any other. It used to be a Victoria's Secret. I call it a temple because the architecture conveys a nearly religious aesthetic, a place to worship...
- News items 2009-11-12
- Microsoft Juggernaut May Find Apple Unsquashable at Retail
- Apple stores continued onward and upward in the latest quarter, but Microsoft took another step toward challenging its rival’s retail ascendancy. In Apple’s third quarter conference call Tuesday, Peter Oppenheimer, senior vice president and CFO said, as transcribed by SeekingAlpha: The stores recognized $1.5 billion of...
- Blog posts 2009-07-24
- Microsoft opens first of its specialty stores
- AS customers around the world got their hands on Windows 7, Microsoft opened the first in a planned chain of specialty stores. Hoping to match rival Apple's successful foray into retailing, the computer giant opened its first store in Scottsdale, Arizona overnight. Hundreds of people, some of whom had waited...
- News items 2009-10-22
- Vindication for Apple's Retail Vision
- When the first two Apple Stores launched in 2001, Apple's ads said, "5 Down, 95 To Go." Apple proposed to double its 5 percent market share to 10 percent by showing people how to use its products to do insanely great things like posting photos to the Web. ...
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Apple: Best Retailer in America?
- Back in 2001, everyone from BusinessWeek to TheStreet.com predicted failure for Apple stores. Well, that didn't exactly happen. Apple stores are now tops amongst all U.S. retailers and rake in a whopping $4,032 per square foot a year. (Consider: Tiffany & Co. takes in $2,666 per square foot.) And the...
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Apple's first France store to open November 7th - reports
- By Zach SpearPublished: 08:30 PM EST While Apple has yet to make it official, multiple reports are saying that the electronics maker plans to cut the ribbon on its first French retail shop -- a flagship location located beside the historic Louvre museum in Paris-- on November 7.Both the French-language...
- News items 2009-10-28
- Apple Gets Mixed Analyst Reviews
- Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: There’s some mixed reviews on Apple AAPL from the Street Monday morning.Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster upped his fiscal Q4 estimates for the company. He now sees revenue of $8.37 billion, up form $7.9 billion, with EPS of $1.17, up from $1.04. He expects Mac unit...
- External links 2008-09-22
- RILA: Apple, B&O Among 'World's Top Stores' (TWICE)
- Arlington, Va.-- The Retail Industry Leaders Association RILA has included Apple Stores and Bang & Olufsen Concept Stores on its list of "40 of the World's Best Stores." Arlington, Va.-- The Retail Industry Leaders Association RILA has included Apple Stores and Bang &...
- Research articles 2004-09-20
- Vindication for Apple's Retail Vision
- Vindication for Apple's Retail VisionMicrosoft jumping on the bandwagonApple stores work on so many levels. - Customers who had never been exposed can touch and feel the machines while having experts on hand to take you through the experience.- The Genius Bar is pure genius. Essentially you are getting...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-24
- Apple Harvests Biggest Crop in a Decade
- Mobile & Wireless Slideshow:Apple Harvests Biggest Crop in a Decade For 2009, Wall Street is nervous that global economic crisis will invade the Apple orchard and kill the crop. But 2008 brought a bountiful harvest, the biggest since Steve Jobs returned to Apple in late 1996. We pick the three...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Apple execs not enthusiastic about 'unattractive' online print
- By Neil HughesPublished: 08:45 AM EST Related AppleInsider articles:Apple pitches tablet as e-reader to Australian...Latest Apple tablet speculation covers digital...Foxconn rumored to manufacture Apple tablet...Publishers eye Apple's tablet; Schmidt on...Amazon to introduce "big screen" Kindle device...While rumors have suggested Apple is courting print publications to deliver content on its anticipated...
- News items 2009-10-30
- Apple again offers matte screen option for 15-inch MacBook Pro
- By Neil HughesPublished: 07:30 AM EST Related AppleInsider articles:Apple may extend antiglare display option to...University claims Apple's glossy screens may...Apple quietly intros 2.66GHz MacBook Pro,...Sources: 17-inch MacBook Pro, NVIDIA Mac mini...Apple now taking orders for 24-inch LED Cinema...Confirming an AppleInsider exclusive tip from less than a month ago, Apple has...
- News items 2009-08-11
- Record industry to pit proprietary CMX against Apple's Cocktail
- By Slash LanePublished: 01:05 PM EST Related AppleInsider articles:Apple's "Cocktail" may spur whole album sales...Apple introduces iTunes Pass for following...LG holds iMac-suitable touchscreen; new iTunes...Apple in talks to offer more DRM-free tracks...Apple to bundle music extras app with iTunes...Four of the world's largest record companies have come together to create...
- News items 2009-08-11
- Apple's Schiller to angry developer: "We hear you"
- By Katie MarsalPublished: 07:45 AM EST Related AppleInsider articles:Offender Locator iPhone software exiled from...Apple's Schiller personally responds to App...FCC investigates Apple, AT&T for Google Voice...Live coverage from Apple's Worldwide...Last-minute rumor: iPhone 3GS with longer...Apple executive Phil Schiller has again responded to a developer's complaints about his company's App Store approvals,...
- News items 2009-08-12
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