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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: 4, Touché) by blackhawk on Tuesday May 24 2016, @04:40PM
What would you do if you had $100 billion in cash sitting in the bank?
I might consider paying taxes in the countries where I did business. I'd also start to think about contributing to several charities in particular ones for people who were vulnerable or at risk.
I definitely wouldn't use every known tax loophole to avoid paying my fair share of the tax burden - or lobby congress for new and interesting ways to fuck over the general populace.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday May 24 2016, @05:21PM
Good answer. Maybe better than mine.
With that kind of money, I could create a lot of jobs. Jobs are better than charity, IMO. Jobs enable other people to be charitable. Instead of relying on some big charity, I can enable a bunch of men and women to support themselves, and to give something away to family and freinds who need it.
Jobs - but not Steve.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by GlennC on Tuesday May 24 2016, @06:59PM
And this is why neither you nor I will ever be allowed to put our hands on that kind of money.
How dare we consider people other than ourselves!
Sorry folks...the world is bigger and more varied than you want it to be. Deal with it.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday May 24 2016, @07:45PM
The .sig speaks the truth. Religiously I may be a Deist, but in the only way that matters, you, and I, and most of us, are atheists and blasphemers.
...good. Mammon and Baculum can go rot.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday May 25 2016, @11:37AM
It's such a pleasure to see "populace" spelled correctly. I can't remember the last time I didn't see it spelled "populous."
Washington DC delenda est.