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New Apple Store: An Example of Evolving Retail?

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday May 24 2016, @03:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-not-just-a-phone-anymore dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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?

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  • (Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Tuesday May 24 2016, @08:12PM

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Tuesday May 24 2016, @08:12PM (#350462)

    While I resist now, the reality is that I'm facing an inevitable W10 migration at some point. Unfortunately, Linux just isn't an option but if Apple were to convince me that their OS wasn't the same shitty malware infection as Windows then I would consider switching. I just spent two decades keeping our networks clean but now the OS has become the malware.

    I don't know how big you business is, but I find it strange that Linux is "not an option" while Apple is, despite avoidance for over a decade.

    I will just leave this here:
    Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software [gnu.org]