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A new kind of Apple Store is opening on Saturday.
Across the street from the iconic San Francisco store, Apple is opening a new flagship aimed at being more than just a store. The trademark 42-foot glass doors will open to a kind of Apple-designed public forum, with a conference room, advice for small businesses, concerts, and a layout that blurs the line between inside and outside.
"This is not just a store," Angela Ahrendts, Apple's senior vice president of retail and online stores, said in a Thursday press release. "We want people to say, 'Hey, meet me at Apple.... Did you see what's going on at Apple?"
Apple is not the first business to engaged in an aesthetic revamp for physical store locations. More and more large companies have taken a designer's eye to rebuilding or in some cases building stores to for greater aesthetics, layout, and convenience.
What would you do if you had $100 billion in cash sitting in the bank?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday May 24 2016, @04:38PM
The trouble actually is that the Tastemakers on Madison Avenue are slaves to Apple when it comes to technology. There is simply no room anywhere there to talk about Microsoft or, god forbid, Linux. Apple is cool. Apple is designed. Apple is managed by committees of very smart, very over-paid people like the Tastemakers to decide what it is cool to do in the realm of technology. Everything else in the world that deals with infrastructure or anything else that is incredibly important but mundane is totally, I mean like totally, uncool.
Therein lies Linux's basic quandry when it comes to general social acceptance. Apple holds the high ground of "cool," Microsoft holds the high ground of "severely uncool, but helps you steal money from everyone's pocket."
Yet, Linux runs the majority of the world's servers and embedded devices. What wins in the end, the flash that travels on the roads, or the roads that carry every sort of flash?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by RedGreen on Tuesday May 24 2016, @08:59PM
"Therein lies Linux's basic quandry when it comes to general social acceptance. Apple holds the high ground of "cool,""
They also hold the it just works for the most part and no changes every god damn time it is updated that breaks the old shit for the sake of chasing the new shinny. I used the Linux from 1998 to early 2008 and the amount of times them clowns borked shit for the chase the new shinny was unbelievable they would just get something working good then time to dump it for this new that is basically useless for years again until they got that right only to rinse and repeat. On the other hand in 2008 when I switched to a hackintosh that install is still running to this day on the machine I am writing this on through many OS upgrades, hardrive changes and machines it is like the energizer bunny it just keeps on going. In short Apple got *nix on the desktop right something Linux will never do with using the always divided method of development they do. Now OSX on/for a server fairly useless I still use Debian for that these days but you can still use all your favourite utilities from Linux on OSX if you install homebrew or similar.
"I modded down, down, down, and the flames went higher." -- Sven Olsen
(Score: 2, Interesting) by BeaverCleaver on Wednesday May 25 2016, @12:09AM
After getting sick of the windows 10 nagging I upgraded to Linux Mint. Everything "just works," even the weird keyboard functions on this Dell laptop.Hell, it even manages to work with my windows-only printer. Updates have all worked fine in the 6 months that I've been using it. I still have my old win7 on a partition if I need it... and I can count those times on the fingers of one hand. I spend less time making Mint do what I want than I ever did trawling forums trying to get Windows to behave. No, it's not perfect. There is no One OS To Bind Them All. I use my computer differently to how you use your computer, and we probably both use it differently to a grandmother or an accountant or a musician or a teenager. This is why diversity (and also open standards!) are a Good Thing.