If you walk into a BestBuy this week you may spot some new software peeking out from the shelves. Yes, Ubuntu is now available as a spiffy boxed set in stores and on-line.
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Member since:2005-11-10
Apple's stores work because they researched into what sucked about stores.
A Sony shop is every bit a big Sony advert, and they are failing at retail, miserably.
Apple nailed the shopping experience, they could never have done that in the back corner of someone else's store.
Member since:2006-07-12
OI! do your homework, Gil Amelio was good for apple, he made cutbacks and helped apple back on its feet. And he got software development back on track by killing many of the fruitless branches of the appletree development. And he also paved the way for Jobs. Without Amelio the company would have been runned into the ground by Scully's and his ilk's shananigans.
Member since:2006-02-05
Ok, amelio did better the scully, but he still had this sort of "Lets compete with the pc market head to head" thing going, and was working pretty hard at making macs more boring enough for business.
When jobs showed up first thing he did was kill the clones, second thing he did was put out a simple, flashy box and marketed the hell out of it to college students and home users who found PCs too complected. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2-UuIEOcss)
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2006-02-05
The reason mac sales were languishing had little to do with the lack of a store, and everything to do with Gil Amelio. Hell, the reason they are doing great now has less to do with the store then it has to do with the iPod/iTunes, iMac, and OSX that Jobs brought with him when he came back to the company.
Apple stores are just a big ad venue, people come in for an iPod and are blasted with a face full of pure apple in all its brushed glory.
Went in to best buy a few weeks ago to pick up a cheap (800$) laptop for the woman, and the sales guy was actually talking alot of smack about vista. I don't think there will be as much resistance by the sales guys as you seem to think.