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Hey NYC: Now It'll Be July (2/27/02)
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Wow, could we ever really have been so glass-half-full as to think that Apple's mammoth Manhattan retail store in SoHo would have opened in time for us to have been able to visit it during last summer's Macworld Expo? Sure, strategically it would have made excellent sense for Apple to have coordinated its first big push into retail with one of its biggest trade shows of the year, but looking back on it now, we can't help wondering who slipped a couple of Unbridled Optimism tablets into our morning coffee back then. We bet it was the busboy in that diner. He had shifty eyes.
Anyway, as any New York-dwelling Apple fanatic knows, it's seven months later and that prime hunk o' Prince Street storefront still looks no more like an Apple store than Steve Jobs resembles Whoopi Goldberg wearing an interesting hat-- a fact which is perfectly excusable given certain extenuating circumstances that presented themselves last September. Still, everyone says we need to move forward and resume our lives, and what better sign of a "return to normalcy" than Big Apple Mac fans bemoaning the fact that, from an Apple retail perspective, they're still storeless? So the question of the hour is, when's that former post office-turned-Restoration Hardware finally going to fulfill its destiny of offering up Macs of all shapes and sizes in a distinctly Gappish setting?
Well, according to Think Secret, Apple's certainly not going to hit its original "spring 2002" target, and understandably so-- but fret not, because despite the fact that there's apparently still a ton of construction to be done, Apple is now aiming to open the doors of its SoHo store this July. As in, right around the next New York Macworld Expo. Well, whaddaya know-- we weren't overly optimistic, we were just off by a year. How 'bout that?
So, with a little luck, maybe the next time we're in New York to catch a keynote, we'll have a better way to spend our evenings than staking out HanGawi for hours at a stretch in hopes of cornering Steve and making off with his shoes. Well, okay, maybe not a better way, but a evening or two hanging out in what promises to be one huge and nifty Apple store sure beats a kick in the head-- shoeless or otherwise.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 2/27/02 episode: February 27, 2002: Apple's stock takes a dive when an analyst reports that iMacs may be scarce due to a "radiation problem." Meanwhile, Apple's Manhattan retail store is said to be slated for a July opening, and Microsoft teams up with Intel to help companies build "the iMac of cell phones"...
Other scenes from that episode: 3595: Mutagen, Schmutagen! (2/27/02) "Okay, what did I miss today?" asks faithful viewer Paul Greatbatch. "Why is Apple heading south while Microsoft is heading north?" Well, Paul, we're going to assume you're referring to the stock prices of those two companies, and not to some grand scheme of mass physical migration to which we're not privy that involves Apple pulling up stakes and relocating from Cupertino to Tijuana even as Bill and the gang bail on Redmond and plunge across the border into Salmon Arm, British Columbia... 3597: Blue LCD Readout Of Death (2/27/02) Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim, and Microsoft's gotta try to own every market under the sun. Why blame them for trying to take over? It's simply the nature of the Beast. Give them five more years, and we won't be at all surprised if they've cornered the market on PDAs, e-commerce middleware, bowling shoes, plastic coat hangers, disposable ballpoint pens, square fruit, frozen potato products, and those little novelty wall hooks that look like human fingers...
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