Apple Stores Demonstrate That Retail Still Lives

WheezyJoe writes "Maybe OS X Leopard has its problems, but the New York Times seems to think Apple has designed the ideal techie retail store. A policy that encourages lingering, with dozens of fully functioning computers, iPods and iPhones for visitors to try, even for hours on end (one patron wrote a manuscript entirely at the store) has 'given some stores, especially those in urban neighborhoods, the feel of a community center ... Meanwhile, the Sony flagship store on West 56th Street, a few blocks from Apple's Fifth Avenue store, has the hush of a mausoleum. And being inside the long and narrow blue-toned Nokia store on 57th Street feels a bit like being inside an aquarium. The high-end Samsung Experience showroom, its nuevo tech music on full blast one recent morning, was nearly empty.'"

Comments

Re:Sony flagship store..has the hush of a mausoleu

[phoebusQ]

You're kidding, right?

Re:Apples and pears?

[AmiMoJo]

It's worth more because there will be no support from Apple in six months, of course!

Apple products are very expensive, and worse they don't support them for long. I bought a 3G iPod years ago. Where is the firmware upgrade for gapless playback?

If you buy an iMac, apart from RAM it's pretty much impossible to upgrade. Apple's solution is to buy a new computer if you need, say, a better graphics card or more USB ports.