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  • Apple retail head Ahrendts talks demise of retail, 'human business' at Cannes Lions

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    macxpress said:
    She is absolutely right!
    People like my Mom & Pop really don’t like online shopping.
    They want to use a product before buying one. That’s why I trust Craigslist more than eBay or Amazon.
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    I think retail still has a valid presence and if stores like JCP, Macy's, Target, etc can just get their act together and keep up with the times they'll be alright in the long run. The weakest links will die off such as Sears, BonTon, Toys R Us, maybe even JCP.
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    Although I gave you an uptick for your thoughts, I should relate that on my first visit to the USA and Canada I happened to visit the Macy's store at Twelve Oaks Mall, Novi, Michigan, and found it almost empty, with few staff on hand to actually check-out my purchase of extra warm thermal headwear (my week in Farmington Hills and on Lake Manistee was freezing in early April, unlike here in central France!). However, in the same mall was a smallish Apple store (I say smallish because it was the first one I had ever seen) and it was packed to bursting... I lost count at sixty people, what with the circulating and demos going on and the 'buzz' being created, but there could have been upwards of one hundred in there. I doubt if all the other stores in that quite extensive mall, in a quite affluent area just north-west of Detroit, had that many customers in total. So as you say... much of retail has to get it's act together!
    argonautjony0

  • Alleged 2018 iPhone prototype photos sporting brightly colored back covers are bogus [u]

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    As an artist and designer I found it easy to guess the probable creative (ahem) source of the purple rendition illustrated above... it's the PANTONE Colour of the Year 2018, namely 18-3838 Ultra Violet.
    https://www.pantone.com/color-of-the-year-2018
    radarthekattgr1

  • Samsung Galaxy S9+ repair difficulty, camera aperture details exposed in teardown

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    I hope the iFixIt technician was wearing flameproof overalls... "the use of a heat gun" could be risky considering Sammys combustible record!
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  • Fitbit preparing second foray into smart watches with new model having more 'mass appeal'

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    Oddly, only a few minutes ago I was on chapter 20 of "Razor Girl" by Carl Hiaasen, and the lead-in was... "The sex lasted a long time. Forty-three minutes, according to Deb's Fitbit. Forty-three minutes and 167 calories."

    On checking I noticed that "Outdoor Walk" in Workout on my Apple Watch 4 gives basically the same time/calorie calculation. However, in no way would I want a Fitbit... but perhaps Apple could add some more interesting 'workouts' to the watch menu!
    watto_cobra

  • Failure of Pixel 2 exposed a larger problem: Google's ads don't work

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    Whenever I see a toyingly curious double-meaning heading such as "Failure of Pixel 2 exposed a larger problem: Google's ads don't work" in my AppleInsider RSS feed I know for sure that it's going to be a "DED + crosshairs = very readable piece." Never once been disappointed!
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