Will Microsoft be selling HP and Dell computers in this store? What will make this store any different from Best Buy or any other store that sells all kinds of computers?
This will fail.
They'll have gurus instead of geniuses and sell Clippy dolls. Their mobile POS devices will run WinMo which by then Apple's will not.
I wholeheartedly applaud our great expeditionary force of Apple employees traveling to the Great White North. From there they can reconnoiter the strategic back-bacon supplies, round up reserve comedians and find the secret of Don Cherry's tailor. With these assets in our possession nothing will stop us in the 21st century! Not war, pestilence or the ever-present torment that is Dr. Phil.
Microsoft has indeed gone philosophical...straight from the playbook of The Art of War : Keep your friends close. But keep your enemies closer! Good grief
Let's not forget about Microsoft's first foray into retail - at the Metreon in San Francisco. I believe the banner out front said something like "Retails For Sure", but the next week I stopped by the store was boarded up.
I remember going in there a couple of times, and both time ended up asking myself 'why am I here again'?
Absolutely the most boring and mind deadening retail experience on record.
But now, of course, they have those great Zunes to show off. Are Xboxes still loss leaders for them or have they finally turned a profit?
I didn't think Microsoft could be any more pathetic than they already are...but I was wrong. They copied the Mac OS; they copied the iPod; they're copying the iPhone as we speak; and now they're copying the Apple Stores. By the way, all of their "copies" are pathetic and I expect the stores to be horrendous specters.
I just don't get it. Microsoft outlines yet another expensive, ridiculous "plan" and their shareholders do nothing. If a company I owned stock in announced something so obviously destined to fail, I'd be at their front door tomorrow morning with a burning torch and a pitchfork.
I love how they have the "I'm a PC" sign on the left wall. What better way to win customers than to bring remembrance to one of the most effective ad campaigns on history. Made by your opponent!
Ha!
Microsoft never ceases to amaze me with their denseness and audacity.
Okay, so I have been overwhelmed by Microsoft's past but recent innovations ie: Vista, Zune, I look forward to their strategy to " "innovate for the long term". I guess that means more second rate copies of Apple's first rate products.
What's that loud-mouthed innovator's name running Microsoft? Isn't he the same guy that innovated their way out of the EU monopoly suit Zune-style?
Sometimes it?s almost like MS is being run Richard Pryor in Brewster?s Millions.
LOL...except, Brewster was executing a plan that assured he would make more money at the end of the overt lunacy. No such assurances here; just lunacy.
Doesnt look like an apple store to me. My local apple store is 2 counters on each side with another counter in the middle of the back and shelves all around the outside. Looks nothing like that picture.
well they can't copy too much since they don't have in house training and techs. unless they are planning to try to copy that as well
frankly that photo, if it is a model of the likely store, looks more like a small Best Buy
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Will Microsoft be selling HP and Dell computers in this store? What will make this store any different from Best Buy or any other store that sells all kinds of computers?
This will fail.
They'll have gurus instead of geniuses and sell Clippy dolls. Their mobile POS devices will run WinMo which by then Apple's will not.
Great things await, citizen! Vigilance!
Oh sh*t, now he will be depressed...
Really! ColdPlay take themselves so seriously. Over produced crap
Check out this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knNSPLI9PH4
Best
("He wouldn't enter into a discussion of what the stores themselves would resemble other than to say they wouldn't copy Apple. ")
Oh no, that picture doesnt look like an apple store at all!
*rolls eyes*
Kinda like how the new Zune doesn't copy Apple.
Let's not forget about Microsoft's first foray into retail - at the Metreon in San Francisco. I believe the banner out front said something like "Retails For Sure", but the next week I stopped by the store was boarded up.
I remember going in there a couple of times, and both time ended up asking myself 'why am I here again'?
Absolutely the most boring and mind deadening retail experience on record.
But now, of course, they have those great Zunes to show off. Are Xboxes still loss leaders for them or have they finally turned a profit?
Nothing to see here, folks.
("He wouldn't enter into a discussion of what the stores themselves would resemble other than to say they wouldn't copy Apple. ")
Oh no, that picture doesnt look like an apple store at all!
*rolls eyes*
There's one huge difference for sure... MS's Retail Experience Center is empty. Apple stores on the other hand are busy with satisfied customers.
Ha!
Microsoft never ceases to amaze me with their denseness and audacity.
What's that loud-mouthed innovator's name running Microsoft? Isn't he the same guy that innovated their way out of the EU monopoly suit Zune-style?
G-d bless Microsoft!
In a not-so-subtle move, Microsoft says its retail stores will deliberately open near those run by Apple.
<Snide> Well I suppose MS wants to ensure that they get some traffic - if only out of curiosity </snide>
Sorry I couldn't resist.
Sometimes it?s almost like MS is being run Richard Pryor in Brewster?s Millions.
LOL...except, Brewster was executing a plan that assured he would make more money at the end of the overt lunacy. No such assurances here; just lunacy.
Doesnt look like an apple store to me. My local apple store is 2 counters on each side with another counter in the middle of the back and shelves all around the outside. Looks nothing like that picture.
well they can't copy too much since they don't have in house training and techs. unless they are planning to try to copy that as well
frankly that photo, if it is a model of the likely store, looks more like a small Best Buy