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I visited the store in July 2008. I'm a foreigner who has an affection for New York - an amazing city. I had an interesting conversation with a female staff member. She told me that when a homeless person entered the store at any time of day, staff would let them chill so long as they didn't cause a fuss. She worked two jobs, the other was at JFK airport. She said that often she'd leave her shift at the Fifth Avenue store and proceed immediately to her shift at JFK. She would often be asked when arriving why she was so happy. She loved her job there. I had my PowerBook repaired there on a Sunday, I couldn't imagine that happening in most other (non-US) stores.

Consider too the store's location at one corner of Central Park. The two compliment each other.

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I've used the paid MindNode app for a little over 12 months. I love it. I get ideas down quickly with links and targets for completion of tasks. I am surprised from time-to-time when revisiting old maps by what I was thinking at the time and the thoughts I mapped out. I have used it recently to set out a program for a summer (university) studentship that I have run this year (it is summer currently where I live). I mapped out thoughts about the project but also clear goals - a lot of fun really.

cropr said:

Being an app developer myself, I might share  what I will do when 3rd party app store and payment engines will become available for iOS apps. I don't develop games, only business related apps linked to a cloud service.  My apps are all available on iOS, Android and the Web (for PC and Mac)

1.  I will move all my apps to an app store that gives me much better marketing.    From a developer point of view the marketing of the Apple App Store sucks.   I did a survey among my customers and none of them have discovered my apps in the App store.     This is the main reason to move away from the Apple App Store.  In the first few years of the App Store the marketing was OK, but now there are so many apps on the App Store, that I have to provide my own marketing.
2. My ideal app store should not impose business restrictions as the Apple App store does currently:  it should allow me to give discounts to my clients who buy multiple apps from me, it should let me distribute vouchers, it should allow special "launch offers", it should allow to have another main currency (e.g. the Euro) so that when the exchange rate changes the cost in Euro does not change, but the cost in $ does.
   
3. My ideal app store should distribute iOS and Android versions of my apps, and should allow me to link the web version of my app.  I basically don't care which version of my app is downloaded.
   
4. For payments I would use Ingenico, a well respected payment service provider, that I am currently using for the web version of my apps (I never had any fraud issue with Ingenico).   As such I will have 1 single payment service provider for all my apps on all devices..  Operationally this will lower the cost of my accounting and my help desk.

I might assume that Apple after a while might react when more and more app stores becoming available.  Especially on point 2 Apple might move a bit to become more developer friendly.
 

Such interesting points. Thanks for the opportunity to look into the thinking of a developer. What is your take on App Store security (in respect of potential third party stores)?

I cannot see Elon's Twitter adventure ending well for him... but I'm no expert.