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Apple Retail Store in Minneapolis done

updated 06:45 pm EDT, Wed July 25, 2001

 
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MacNN reader Alex Cutler reports that construction is essentially completed on the Apple retail store at the Mall of America of Minneapolis, MN. "Along the walls they have shelves where they will be placing the computers. The store has that black outline on the front that the others did, and it was a former Gap location," said Cutler.


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    07/25, 06:56pm | report spam | Reply | delete

    heh

    ALL YOUR GAP STORES ARE BELONG TO US

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    FIRST POST

    Look at it this way - a FireWire iMac is $1000, right? Take off the monitor, which represents probably $150 of the retail cost. (Apple's cost - $40 or so). That's $850. Put it in a tower case and add 3 PCI slots (net cost - $25, or even close to zero if you use a cheap case. Even allowing $50 for a nice case, that's $900 for a G3 in a tower case with PCI slots.

    The cheapest G4 tower is $1699. Is the G4 worth $800 more than our hypothetical G3 tower? I don't think so, especially if the CPU is upgradeable in our cheap machine. That's the problem, the numbers on the G4 towers don't add up.

    If I buy a Dell, every step up in CPU speed is roughly $200, a bit more for the really top end. With Apple, the same 1 or 2 steps in CPU speed is a $1500 increase. That's the price of a whole second machine!

    Based on these calculations, it's obvious that Apple could profitably a fast G3 tower at $900 and make a tidy profit, maybe more than on the iMac. They owe it to their shareholders and loyal mac users to pursue this opportunity.

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    amazing business minds

    Apple reports gross margins of about 27%. I have no doubt that they have much healthier margins on the highend systems, with much smaller ones in the iMacs. By following your suggestion, they would likely drop that number to less than 20%, which at their market share would send them the way of the dodo bird. I don't think so, and I doubt the shareholders would thank you.
    I am curious as to how much profit is on an iBook, compared to the TiBook.

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    Apple's Mpls. store

    I only hope that they're smart enough to hire Rodney Lain as a salesperson because thats the only thing that will get me out to the Sprawl of America!
    The bad part of that would be that my brother wouldn't be able to write any more columns that piss off the suits at Apple, and Lord knows that those people need some serious pissing off periodically!
    The good part would be that Rodney would give the store an air of credibility by not preaching to the converted and by dispensing facts first rather than blowing smoke up somebodys a** and losing a long term customer in the bargain.

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    Completed? Wrong.

    Considering that Alex won't be a full time employee there (I suppose he could be a part-timer), then the only view he's had is through a small crack in the white barrier in front of the storefront. The glass is up in front, the floor is in, most of the shelving that lines the walls is completed. But to call it "essentially completed"? That's totally wrong by about a week.

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    You'd never know

    I was just there tonight--I looked in, and there's nothing to tell anyone what kind of store it was. No computers, no software, no Apple logos, no signs, nothing. You'd think a completed store would have an Apple logo somewhere in it.

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    hold up a sec

    If you had been inside you would notice that the construction was compleate, and that boxes for the shelves etc were in. So the construction was complete, that is what I am guessing he ment.

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    Will Jobs be there

    Does anyone if Steve Jobs will be at the opening?!?!?!

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    ??????

    What the h*** was your message even about? "Rodney Lain," the mysterious journalist who pisses off Apple. Huh? Go away weirdo.

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    Minneapolis?

    Not to be nit-picky, but the mall's in Bloomington. And for those of you who avoid the Mall of America on some grand ideological grounds, have fun finding a spot in FirstTech's 12-stall parking lot.

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