Apple Retail tells employees something big is on the way - Page 2

... for customers who have purchased any Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch.

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I haven't bought an iPhone 4G yet because I'm holding out for the whitey.

Believe it or not it's quite difficult to find NICE videos of a white iPhone 4G. I found this one. check it out. Unfortunately it's a PC Mag review but it's the best video out there if you want to check out the whitey.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxc4SVJSmpg

Didn't they say right in the article that it was something for use by employees in their retail stores and not something for consumers?

Congratulations, the following people (most of the thread at this point) didn't even read the f*cking article or think that what they have to talk about is more important and just don't care about what the article even says.

You all should be ashamed of yourselves either way.


















This person, is practically the only one that got it right at all.


RTFM people! Are you all tired, or just stupid?

White iPhone 4 with working antenna.

You heard it here first, folks.

In answer to your sig-- In Flint Center!

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It's the iCar.

Apple... The World's Biggest HYPE-Machine.

I would guess new hand held POS system using iPhone 4's or iPads. Maybe some real time saving app like allowing people to pay for items with the iTunes account rather than having to do a card swipe (plus 3 more swipes until it reads in their crappy readers).

It could also be something truly revolutionary for retail, the iRegister where customers can wait to pay in an equally revolutionary iLine or perhaps iQueue. Just imagine if customers could intuitively know where to pay, and employees would know who was next. OMFG, it could be HUGE!

They all get raises!

Honestly, that article seems to be written purposefully to mislead readers to make it sound like a new CONSUMER PRODUCT was coming to the Apple Stores . . . until you clicked on it and read past the 5th paragraph.

I read the whole thing and hd to re-read it to figure out what the hell you were saying.

It should be a little more clear that its probably a new PROCESS or SYSTEM coming to Apple's RETAIL STORES for use by the EMPLOYEES.

Telephones?

+1 for tired!





























This person, is practically the only one that got it right at all.



RTFM people! Are you all tired, or just stupid?[/QUOTE]

working telephones?

This is completely bizarre.

When has Apple ever endorsed a sports team? The chances of this happening are about 0.00001%.

Also, sponsorship would have nothing to do with their retail operations (unless they chose to sell cycling jerseys at their stores). But then again, perhaps you're being sarcastic. Hard to tell on the Internet.

new uniforms?

the every-four-years release of a mac pro?

free downgrades to Windows XP valid until 2020?

They're playing with - "It's big." It's physically big. And that can only be an Apple HDTV.

READ!

Loop antennae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Field_Communication

Hopefully a new MacPro + new Cinema Display. I really want to order a new Mac, but just don't want to see it updated a couple of days _after_ I purchased the current model. According to http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac_Pro the wait has been twice as long as usual (498 vs. 236 days) for a new model to appear. And if it's something big, could it be a bigger Cinema Display? Or will the new display be the rumoured 27"? What do you guys think?

Cheers,
Phil

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1) special tagging of the store shelves and demo stations, i.e. the products the Apple Store has for sale with NFC/RFID tags and short (3-digit) "Apple Store Product Numbers"

2) a free AppleStore.app for iPads, iPhones, iPod Touchs that allows the user to quickly shop using the 3-digit product codes (or product descriptions).

3) The AppleStore.app would include information for all the products sold at all Apple Stores and would be supplemented in the store (over WiFi) with other products unique to that particular Apple Store

4) NFC/RFID announced as "already included" in the iPhone 4.

So, a customer with an Apple Mobile device walks around the store, selecting items to buy by:
-- selectings the product from a scrollable list (drill-down);
-- searching (drill-down)
-- entering a 3-digit "Apple Store Product Numbers"
-- bumping his NFC/RFID device with the NFC/RFID tag on the display product.

A customer could pre-fill his order in the AppleStore.app with intended purchases before leaving home, then update, as necessary when in the store. It is most important to support "specials" and "impulse buying".

When ready to checkout, the customer hits a "Checkout" button and his order is WiFid to the back room, where it is picked and brought to him on the floor, where normal checkout takes place

For those customers who do not, yet, own an Apple Mobile Device-- there will be iPad kiosks throughout the store to provide a similar, stationary experience,

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Oh... Apple will announce that concept is being tested in several high-visibility retail chains...

BTW, this [broad] concept is not new-- it was pioneered in the 1950's by Simpson's of Canada (where the pickers in the back room wore roller-skates)

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It's not the white IPhone.

And don't call me Shirley. :P

Right back at ya!
they did read the article.
Apple(you know the subject of the article) only said something BIG. Nothing else can be infered from those statements.
The writer and an outsider said it's most likely retail only.
Which is probably true, but that's no reason to call everyone stupid. Stupid is as stupid does.

apple can sure use a real nice big shiny ball right about now.

Public bathrooms!!!

This is going to be awesome.

This might actually be it. I worked at an Apple Store on and off for 2 years, and MobileMe was, after Applecare, the biggest priority when it came to "attaching" things to Mac and iPhone sales. I actually had an odd knack for selling it to people - "Find My iPhone" and the ease of publishing web galleries reeled the most people in.

Plus, the recent upgrade to the Mail interface, the upcoming beta of the Calendar function, and people being reclassified as "Full Members" all indicate some larger shift is in the works.

I said what I said because it's a "retail surprise" and it's being reported here and everywhere else that it has nothing to do with new products but only "retail." All the people I replied to didn't even bother to read the article (or at least not very closely), and just spouted off with their favourite theory of what new product they want Apple to produce.

Also, if you read what I actually wrote more carefully yourself, you will see that I did not "call everyone stupid."

I see an easy cheap shot in this story having to do with a giant hopper for recalled iPhone 4s.

I sincerely hope a recall is not necessary and not in the cards.

Like the poster said above the Verizon iphone - running on LTE backward compatible with CDMA and unlimited data plan. No dropped calls and fast connections. Cheaper monthly plans too.

Hey I can hope can't I?

Dats telling em.... Not that they'd bother reading your post but A for effort anyway.

I've never been to an Apple store WITHOUT a cash register at the back.

What planet do you shop on?

+1, but I seriously doubt it. Here's the upcoming flyer from Verizon for Smartphones that leaked out. Had there been a Verizon iPhone on the near horizon, it probably would be front and center on the flyer.

http://www.droid-life.com/2010/07/13...2-is-official/

That would totally suck all of the oxygen out of the latest Droid release day, which I think is Thursday.

Let the bumper madness begin!

Smock! Smock!

Thanks. Me too. Gotta Be The White iPhone 4.  

I hope it is free mobileme email, at least for people who haven't renewed their subscription for whatever reason. As has already been mentioned here by a few people, many find it off putting to think that they will lose all their emails if they don't renew, so they simply hardly ever use the email service - which is a shame as I have never had a problem with that aspect of the service. The contact and cal sync on the other hand..... (!)

The article says that it is something specific to its brick-and-mortar stores.
It is definitely not a new piece of hardware, because Apple Store employees would be the last people you would want to tell. No offense.

My guess it is 1 of 3 things.

1) MobileMe lite - FREE Contact and Calendar syncing for everyone.
It would make sense to promote this to Apple Store employees.

2) Some type of upgrade to the current POS system that uses the iPod touch.
It would make sense to get Apple Store employees excited about using it.

3) Some other major store function becoming digitized and easier to do (planogram/scheduling)

A friend of mine who works for a major retail chain showed me how he can log in and check his store's schedule. If he needs to call out, the web app shows him who is available from his store and other nearby stores to cover for him.

This is the kind of thing RETAIL people get excited about.
Not Apple TVs.

There is no cash register at the Garden State Mall store. There used to be but they took them out and now use that area for personal training. To check out you have to get an employee with an iPad.

Apple call everything they do big and innovative so it could be anything. The Mac Pro is long overdue but I doubt they'd hint at that.

An ATV replacement is a possibility because they might not bother with a media event but it's something you can't really demo properly online.

Here here.

With the tagline big, it's a TV. 101% guarenteed.