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Hey, New Jersey: Sleep In (10/26/01)
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Attention, all Jersey-area Mac fans: if you were expecting to attend the grand opening of the Tice's Corner Apple retail store tomorrow, either cancel your plans, or make sure you pack a sleeping bag and one big honkin' picnic basket. According to MacCentral, the event has officially been postponed for a week, so if you're getting in line early tomorrow morning, you're definitely going to want to be well-supplied for the seven-day wait. (At least you'll probably be first in line, though.)
While we don't think the Tice's Corner page on Apple's site ever listed an opening date in the first place, there's most certainly a new graphic showing up in Hot News that simply lists the store as "opening soon," so it seems this delay is legit. Reportedly Apple decided to postpone the opening until November 3rd because that date "is more in conjunction with the openings of the Apple store's fellow tenants." Waitaminnit, here... so New Jersey Macaholics have to sweat it out another week just because the other stores in the mall can't get their collective act together? Geez, that hardly seems fair. Still, since it doesn't inconvenience us directly, we'll let it go.
The other grand opening slated for tomorrow-- at the Westfarms Mall in Farmington, CT-- is apparently still a go, so those of you with elaborate plans to camp out overnight to ensure a good spot in line are encouraged to proceed normally. There's a slim chance that AtAT will be represented at this shindig by Jack, though Katie will definitely be absent due to a previous engagement. If you're going to the Westfarms hootenanny, keep an eye peeled for this guy; if he's there, say hi, because he'll be handing out stickers and selling t-shirts. Don't count on it, though, since getting up early on a Saturday is a rare and blasphemous act around the AtAT compound...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 10/26/01 episode: October 26, 2001: The Mac community discovers how to get an iPod for $30 off-- and yet another reason why you must own one. Meanwhile, Apple launches two new promotions that offer rebates and/or free gear to iMac and Power Mac customers, and the grand opening of the first New Jersey Apple retail store has been postponed for one more week...
Other scenes from that episode: 3355: Of Pods, Pricing, And Pong (10/26/01) Three days after the product's introduction, the controversy surrounding the iPod has progressed from a bloody war of words (the likes of which the Mac community hasn't witnessed since the Great No-Floppy Flame Battles of 1998-- we're still waiting for our eyebrows to grow back) into a sort of calm consensus... 3356: Allow Six To Eight Weeks (10/26/01) Okay, so maybe you're not in the market for a $399 MP3 player. Could it be because you've been saving up for a whole new Mac, instead? Well, if so, then have we got news for you: faithful viewer Mark Czynski points out that, just in time for the holidays, Apple has just trotted out a new pair of promotions geared to get you plunking down the cash for a dollop or two of desktop-y goodness...
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