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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.
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(Score: 1) by tractatus_techno_philosophicus on Tuesday May 24 2016, @09:16PM
I was actually able to successfully configure JACK recently, but couldn't get any DAW to work with it (most notably Ardour4, which crashed upon the creation of a new project every time). JACK wasn't the problem, rather every natively-compiled Linux DAW I've attempted to run, and don't even get me started on LMMS; I don't care if it is free. That DAW is garbage. Audacity is the only audio (in this case sampling) program which has operated flawlessly for me on Linux, and I wish it had the same multi-track and "overall project" functionality as Cubase. If so, I'd be in business. I understand that multimedia production isn't Linux's strong suite, nor do I expect it to be. It performs every other daily task flawlessly for me, and that's incredible. Until it's capable of professional-quality multimedia production, it seems Apple is the only way to go if your aim (like mine) is to avoid Microsoft entirely.
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