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Techdirt usually likes to bash Apple's hardware and software, but why overlook their business strategy? Apple is set to open retail stores everywhere from NYC to Palo Alto to McLean, Virginia!?! Meanwhile, back at the halls of justice, Apple is trying to regain their education market by pushing their new iBook. These are fairly aggressive moves against Gateway and Dell (respectively). Who's says economic downturns aren't the perfect time to wage war? Um, yeah, that's the ticket.
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  1. identicon
    u2604ab, 8 May 2001 @ 12:01pm

    McLean


    McLean is a hoity-toity suburb of Washington DC; It's kind of like Palo Alto's relationship to San Francisco.

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  2. identicon
    Zebulun, 8 May 2001 @ 1:33pm

    an ananolgy

    White Castle is a nation-wide chain and Jerry Springer airs across the country daily, that doesn't really attest to their quality.

    Three stores? Pardon me, but someone help find my giveashit hat.

    Agressive moves against Dell and Gateway? Uh, that's like saying a Springer store opening in Philly and 3 more redneck stations playin his afternoon show is an agressive move against Donahue reruns and Oprah.

    ps) I don't mean to be negative. but if Apple ever hopes for a chance in hell of anyone taking their product as a serious piece of Hardware and not an expensive piece of furnature, they need to price their products competitively and boost their CPU crunching power to at least come close to their PC competitors. I know they're big with kids, but so were swatches - both are good examples of expensive hunks of plastic crap.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  3. identicon
    Zebulun, 8 May 2001 @ 1:34pm

    an analogy...

    ... White Castle is a nation-wide chain and Jerry Springer airs across the country daily, that doesn't really attest to their quality.

    Three stores? Pardon me, but someone help find my giveashit hat.

    Agressive moves against Dell and Gateway? Uh, that's like saying a Springer store opening in Philly and 3 more redneck stations playin his afternoon show is an agressive move against Donahue reruns and Oprah.

    ps) I don't mean to be negative. but if Apple ever hopes for a chance in hell of anyone taking their product as a serious piece of Hardware and not an expensive piece of furnature, they need to price their products competitively and boost their CPU crunching power to at least come close to their PC competitors. I know they're big with kids, but so were swatches - both are good examples of expensive hunks of plastic crap.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  4. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 8 May 2001 @ 10:02pm

    Surprise? Not...

    I guess after a decade of telling retailers to "go fuck themselves" Apple discovers they don't have a retail presence. This is yet another gasp for breath from a near death company. I mean, seriously, does anyone really give a shit about Apple anymore?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  5. identicon
    mhh5, 8 May 2001 @ 11:13pm

    Re: an analogy...

    Wow. The Apple-related posts on Techdirt are always amusing...

    BTW, I happen to agree that opening retail stores is a bad move for Apple. An aggressive move isn't necessarily an effective or even threatening one...

    link to this | view in thread ]


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