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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: 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.