DO NOT GET YOUR DOMAINS THROUGH REGISTRYWEB.COM OR JOKER.COM!!!
I paid for 10 year registrations for around 15 domains and registryweb let them expire after one year and did not notify me. A couple of the domains were transferred to joker.com before expiring.
Of the 15 I registered and paid for, only 2 are still registered (in their name of course!), and that, because I caught them before they went on the chopping block.
They are in Australia and have no customer support. Well, and email form, but I have never received a response from them.
Any takers on how long until someone uses the iSight camera to film their own Paris Hilton-style porn?
My concern with this is hackers or hotel staff being able to remotely monitor what you are doing. Or worse, gain access to the microphone or camera.
Most people who need a computer in their room tend to bring their own, but I do see this as a smart move for Apple. I wonder if they are going to wipe the accounts after each stay and if guests can create multiple password protected accounts.
What???? There are 4 Apple stores and combined service centers in Helsinki alone. There is even one retail store that sells Apple products. Not sure where you are getting your info from but you are wrong.
There are not. Helsinki may have four Apple Premium Resellers, but not four Apple Stores.
Wrong. There are 16 Apple Stores in the UK alone. 1 in Italy, and many more planned. Facts. Help.
There's one in Glasgow too. The whole thing stinks however. By the time there was 4 in the UK there should have been one in at least 2 in Spain, 2 in Germany and 2 in France. It's simply bad planning. In should be much more widespread from the start. All majors cities first.
I love the way people try to defend Apple on this strategy, it's pathetic. Not merely Apple's way of doing this but defending them for it.
For the record the UK has a population of 60,500,000.
Germany alone has 82,200,000 people.
France has 64,400,000.
Spain has 45,200,000.
I know stores are planned in these places, but planning only now is a sad state of affairs. All three of these countries should have at the very least 3 stores each by now. There is no store in Paris!!? I mean what the fuck? There are no excuses for this, none, it is that sad, really. Paris itself could use 3 stores, the city is a monster. Paris' first Apple store should be turning 4 by now.
There's one in Glasgow too. The whole thing stinks however. By the time there was 4 in the UK there should have been one in at least 2 in Spain, 2 in Germany and 2 in France. It's simply bad planning. In should be much more widespread from the start. All majors cities first.
I love the way people try to defend Apple on this strategy, it's pathetic. Not merely Apple's way of doing this but defending them for it.
For the record the UK has a population of 60,500,000.
Germany alone has 82,200,000 people.
France has 64,400,000.
Spain has 45,200,000.
I know stores are planned in these places, but planning only now is a sad state of affairs. All three of these countries should have at the very least 3 stores each by now. There is no store in Paris!!? I mean what the fuck? There are no excuses for this, none, it is that sad, really. Paris itself could use 3 stores, the city is a monster. Paris' first Apple store should be turning 4 by now.
I'll ask you the same questions I asked before. Do you know how many customers Apple has in any of those countries? Do you know of any regulatory problems or costs Apple may face in any of those countries. Any other matters that may affect their wanting to rush to open stores?
If not, all you can do is question their doing what they're doing, but you can't criticize them for it.
I would imagine that Apple wants to open stores where they can expand their business the most, as well as maximize their profits where they are opening.
Do you think that Apple wants to lose sales by not opening in markets where they are strong? No, they don't.
Obviously there are reasons that Apple thinks are good enough for them to be doing it this way. We may not understand what they are, but we can't deny that Apple must have them. They don't have the most successful specialty chain of stores in the world by making big mistakes.
This is a retail chain that sells just apple, and they're doing a good job at it. They offer crash courses for pretty much everything Mac related and take the edu discounts et all. They're probably very closely tied to Apple.
I'm pretty sure retail chains like this exist in other countries too. Apple won't compete with these guys.
Similar situation in Germany: http://www.gravis.de/ (german only, sorry) - an Apple retailer with 29 stores spread all over the country. And, lucky me, two of them here in Hamburg
I'll ask you the same questions I asked before. Do you know how many customers Apple has in any of those countries? Do you know of any regulatory problems or costs Apple may face in any of those countries. Any other matters that may affect their wanting to rush to open stores?
To anyone who has never opened a store (much less a store in another country) the concepts of barriers to entry (a countries regulatory hurdles, supply chain issues, staffing issues, language issues) might seems trivial. To a company who is making it's name as a premium brand, getting these things right is paramount. It appears that Apple would rather roll out the stores in a very controlled way rather than risk mucking it up and sullying their name.
Of course, I want to pull my hair out when I am reminded how few international stores they have, but I do know all the issues that they have to address.
PS Mel, I replied to you to agree with you, not imply that you were unaware of those issues. Don't hurt me.
There's one in Glasgow too. The whole thing stinks however. By the time there was 4 in the UK there should have been one in at least 2 in Spain, 2 in Germany and 2 in France. It's simply bad planning. In should be much more widespread from the start. All majors cities first.
I love the way people try to defend Apple on this strategy, it's pathetic. Not merely Apple's way of doing this but defending them for it.
For the record the UK has a population of 60,500,000.
Germany alone has 82,200,000 people.
France has 64,400,000.
Spain has 45,200,000.
I know stores are planned in these places, but planning only now is a sad state of affairs. All three of these countries should have at the very least 3 stores each by now. There is no store in Paris!!? I mean what the fuck? There are no excuses for this, none, it is that sad, really. Paris itself could use 3 stores, the city is a monster. Paris' first Apple store should be turning 4 by now.
You don't open a store somewhere just because you think you should be there. As others have said, you look at the markets, you look at the Apple resellers that are there, you look at the available locations, etc. Apple's retail store strategy has been brilliant - the most successful retail strategy ever (according to Wall Street). The most sales in the shortest time of any chain of retail stores. And you know better how they should do it?
If you don't take care about what you're doing, you get Euro Disney - an enormous flop.
To anyone who has never opened a store (much less a store in another country) the concepts of barriers to entry (a countries regulatory hurdles, supply chain issues, staffing issues, language issues) might seems trivial. To a company who is making it's name as a premium brand, getting these things right is paramount. It appears that Apple would rather roll out the stores in a very controlled way rather than risk mucking it up and sullying their name.
Of course, I want to pull my hair out when I am reminded how few international stores they have, but I do know all the issues that they have to address.
PS Mel, I replied to you to agree with you, not imply that you were unaware of those issues. Don't hurt me.
I realize that.
I'm not THAT bad.
In the mid '80's we opened up two offices in Europe. One in London, and one in Paris.
While opening up in London was fairly easy, for a number of reasons, opening one in Paris was not.
Mind you, Im just talking about an office that has reps, and received, and shipped work back to NYC, not a retail operation.
But, France was a nightmare compared to the UK. The regulations were very convluted. Hiring rules were restrictive as to who we could hire, how, when, for how much, what we had to expect to pay if we had to fire someone (not easy), etc. The regulations and picky details about exactly what the business was about, and how we would have to re-apply if we needed to expand our services were confusing. There was concern expressed that we MIGHT intrude into French companies dealings (we didn't).
Foreign companies are looked into much more so that home grown ones are.
Believe me, if we didn't have a good market there, we would not have done it.
I'll ask you the same questions I asked before. Do you know how many customers Apple has in any of those countries?
Well they've no stores so I'm guessing they've about 12 customers. If they had stores on the other hand the people could walk in and throw their wallets around.
You don't open a store somewhere just because you think you should be there. As others have said, you look at the markets, you look at the Apple resellers that are there, you look at the available locations, etc. Apple's retail store strategy has been brilliant
Well they've no stores so I'm guessing they've about 12 customers. If they had stores on the other hand the people could walk in and throw their wallets around.
You missed that one by a mile.
There are Apple specialty stores in those countries, as others have reminded you.
Before Apple decided to open all those stores in the UK, there weren't any Apple Co. stores their either. So why open Apple stores there?
Because there in the UK, are most of Apple's customers, and it's not crap trying to open stores as it is on the continent.
Euro Disney? What the heck has this got to do with opening an Apple store? That's a terrible analogy for your argument.
Why people get so touchy touchy when it comes to any Apple criticism at all always surprises me. Fanboys.
Fanboys? Are you calling ME a fanboy? You should know better than that!
Actually, what he said about Euro Disney is spot on. The French demanded so many changes to Disney's formula that it's hardly Disney at all. People around the world come to DisneyWorlds, no matter where they may be, to get Disney's unique American experience. in Euro Disney, it's been watered down to the French, sort of, but not quite, American almost looking, but not acting like, experience.
This is what happens to foreign companies when they attempt to open in France, mostly, but to a lessor extent, in the rest of Europe as well.
Apple chooses to not open stores in the US if they can't do it how they want their image projected. Why should it be different anywhere else?
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DO NOT GET YOUR DOMAINS THROUGH REGISTRYWEB.COM OR JOKER.COM!!!
I paid for 10 year registrations for around 15 domains and registryweb let them expire after one year and did not notify me. A couple of the domains were transferred to joker.com before expiring.
Of the 15 I registered and paid for, only 2 are still registered (in their name of course!), and that, because I caught them before they went on the chopping block.
They are in Australia and have no customer support. Well, and email form, but I have never received a response from them.
Any takers on how long until someone uses the iSight camera to film their own Paris Hilton-style porn?
My concern with this is hackers or hotel staff being able to remotely monitor what you are doing. Or worse, gain access to the microphone or camera.
Most people who need a computer in their room tend to bring their own, but I do see this as a smart move for Apple. I wonder if they are going to wipe the accounts after each stay and if guests can create multiple password protected accounts.
What???? There are 4 Apple stores and combined service centers in Helsinki alone. There is even one retail store that sells Apple products. Not sure where you are getting your info from but you are wrong.
There are not. Helsinki may have four Apple Premium Resellers, but not four Apple Stores.
/Adrian
Wrong. There are 16 Apple Stores in the UK alone. 1 in Italy, and many more planned. Facts. Help.
There's one in Glasgow too. The whole thing stinks however. By the time there was 4 in the UK there should have been one in at least 2 in Spain, 2 in Germany and 2 in France. It's simply bad planning. In should be much more widespread from the start. All majors cities first.
I love the way people try to defend Apple on this strategy, it's pathetic. Not merely Apple's way of doing this but defending them for it.
For the record the UK has a population of 60,500,000.
Germany alone has 82,200,000 people.
France has 64,400,000.
Spain has 45,200,000.
I know stores are planned in these places, but planning only now is a sad state of affairs. All three of these countries should have at the very least 3 stores each by now. There is no store in Paris!!? I mean what the fuck? There are no excuses for this, none, it is that sad, really. Paris itself could use 3 stores, the city is a monster. Paris' first Apple store should be turning 4 by now.
Few details beyond this are available, though the Fontainebleau opens the doors to its Vegas location in the fall.
There will be plenty of time to work out the details. Fountainebleau Las Vegas does not open until the fall 2009.
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There's one in Glasgow too. The whole thing stinks however. By the time there was 4 in the UK there should have been one in at least 2 in Spain, 2 in Germany and 2 in France. It's simply bad planning. In should be much more widespread from the start. All majors cities first.
I love the way people try to defend Apple on this strategy, it's pathetic. Not merely Apple's way of doing this but defending them for it.
For the record the UK has a population of 60,500,000.
Germany alone has 82,200,000 people.
France has 64,400,000.
Spain has 45,200,000.
I know stores are planned in these places, but planning only now is a sad state of affairs. All three of these countries should have at the very least 3 stores each by now. There is no store in Paris!!? I mean what the fuck? There are no excuses for this, none, it is that sad, really. Paris itself could use 3 stores, the city is a monster. Paris' first Apple store should be turning 4 by now.
I'll ask you the same questions I asked before. Do you know how many customers Apple has in any of those countries? Do you know of any regulatory problems or costs Apple may face in any of those countries. Any other matters that may affect their wanting to rush to open stores?
If not, all you can do is question their doing what they're doing, but you can't criticize them for it.
I would imagine that Apple wants to open stores where they can expand their business the most, as well as maximize their profits where they are opening.
Do you think that Apple wants to lose sales by not opening in markets where they are strong? No, they don't.
Obviously there are reasons that Apple thinks are good enough for them to be doing it this way. We may not understand what they are, but we can't deny that Apple must have them. They don't have the most successful specialty chain of stores in the world by making big mistakes.
And Belgium already has pseudo-Apple stores.
http://www.switchshops.be/
This is a retail chain that sells just apple, and they're doing a good job at it. They offer crash courses for pretty much everything Mac related and take the edu discounts et all. They're probably very closely tied to Apple.
I'm pretty sure retail chains like this exist in other countries too. Apple won't compete with these guys.
Similar situation in Germany: http://www.gravis.de/ (german only, sorry) - an Apple retailer with 29 stores spread all over the country. And, lucky me, two of them here in Hamburg
I'll ask you the same questions I asked before. Do you know how many customers Apple has in any of those countries? Do you know of any regulatory problems or costs Apple may face in any of those countries. Any other matters that may affect their wanting to rush to open stores?
To anyone who has never opened a store (much less a store in another country) the concepts of barriers to entry (a countries regulatory hurdles, supply chain issues, staffing issues, language issues) might seems trivial. To a company who is making it's name as a premium brand, getting these things right is paramount. It appears that Apple would rather roll out the stores in a very controlled way rather than risk mucking it up and sullying their name.
Of course, I want to pull my hair out when I am reminded how few international stores they have, but I do know all the issues that they have to address.
PS Mel, I replied to you to agree with you, not imply that you were unaware of those issues. Don't hurt me.
There's one in Glasgow too. The whole thing stinks however. By the time there was 4 in the UK there should have been one in at least 2 in Spain, 2 in Germany and 2 in France. It's simply bad planning. In should be much more widespread from the start. All majors cities first.
I love the way people try to defend Apple on this strategy, it's pathetic. Not merely Apple's way of doing this but defending them for it.
For the record the UK has a population of 60,500,000.
Germany alone has 82,200,000 people.
France has 64,400,000.
Spain has 45,200,000.
I know stores are planned in these places, but planning only now is a sad state of affairs. All three of these countries should have at the very least 3 stores each by now. There is no store in Paris!!? I mean what the fuck? There are no excuses for this, none, it is that sad, really. Paris itself could use 3 stores, the city is a monster. Paris' first Apple store should be turning 4 by now.
You don't open a store somewhere just because you think you should be there. As others have said, you look at the markets, you look at the Apple resellers that are there, you look at the available locations, etc. Apple's retail store strategy has been brilliant - the most successful retail strategy ever (according to Wall Street). The most sales in the shortest time of any chain of retail stores. And you know better how they should do it?
If you don't take care about what you're doing, you get Euro Disney - an enormous flop.
To anyone who has never opened a store (much less a store in another country) the concepts of barriers to entry (a countries regulatory hurdles, supply chain issues, staffing issues, language issues) might seems trivial. To a company who is making it's name as a premium brand, getting these things right is paramount. It appears that Apple would rather roll out the stores in a very controlled way rather than risk mucking it up and sullying their name.
Of course, I want to pull my hair out when I am reminded how few international stores they have, but I do know all the issues that they have to address.
PS Mel, I replied to you to agree with you, not imply that you were unaware of those issues. Don't hurt me.
I realize that.
I'm not THAT bad.
In the mid '80's we opened up two offices in Europe. One in London, and one in Paris.
While opening up in London was fairly easy, for a number of reasons, opening one in Paris was not.
Mind you, Im just talking about an office that has reps, and received, and shipped work back to NYC, not a retail operation.
But, France was a nightmare compared to the UK. The regulations were very convluted. Hiring rules were restrictive as to who we could hire, how, when, for how much, what we had to expect to pay if we had to fire someone (not easy), etc. The regulations and picky details about exactly what the business was about, and how we would have to re-apply if we needed to expand our services were confusing. There was concern expressed that we MIGHT intrude into French companies dealings (we didn't).
Foreign companies are looked into much more so that home grown ones are.
Believe me, if we didn't have a good market there, we would not have done it.
I'll ask you the same questions I asked before. Do you know how many customers Apple has in any of those countries?
Well they've no stores so I'm guessing they've about 12 customers. If they had stores on the other hand the people could walk in and throw their wallets around.
You don't open a store somewhere just because you think you should be there. As others have said, you look at the markets, you look at the Apple resellers that are there, you look at the available locations, etc. Apple's retail store strategy has been brilliant
Where are you from?
If you don't take care about what you're doing, you get Euro Disney - an enormous flop.
Euro Disney? What the heck has this got to do with opening an Apple store? That's a terrible analogy for your argument.
Why people get so touchy touchy when it comes to any Apple criticism at all always surprises me. Fanboys.
Well they've no stores so I'm guessing they've about 12 customers. If they had stores on the other hand the people could walk in and throw their wallets around.
You missed that one by a mile.
There are Apple specialty stores in those countries, as others have reminded you.
Before Apple decided to open all those stores in the UK, there weren't any Apple Co. stores their either. So why open Apple stores there?
Because there in the UK, are most of Apple's customers, and it's not crap trying to open stores as it is on the continent.
Euro Disney? What the heck has this got to do with opening an Apple store? That's a terrible analogy for your argument.
Why people get so touchy touchy when it comes to any Apple criticism at all always surprises me. Fanboys.
Fanboys? Are you calling ME a fanboy? You should know better than that!
Actually, what he said about Euro Disney is spot on. The French demanded so many changes to Disney's formula that it's hardly Disney at all. People around the world come to DisneyWorlds, no matter where they may be, to get Disney's unique American experience. in Euro Disney, it's been watered down to the French, sort of, but not quite, American almost looking, but not acting like, experience.
This is what happens to foreign companies when they attempt to open in France, mostly, but to a lessor extent, in the rest of Europe as well.
Apple chooses to not open stores in the US if they can't do it how they want their image projected. Why should it be different anywhere else?