A Great Future In Store For Apple?

from the sell-sell-sell dept

Business Week has an interesting article about what's happening at the Apple brick-and-mortar stores these days. It seems that they're attracting an awful lot of window shoppers, but very few buyers. The problem is that most of the people working there were recruited for their Mac enthusiasm, and not their selling ability. However, now, Apple is pushing sales training on these folks, and are hoping that it really starts to pump up the high-revenue purchases of newbie Apple users relying on the store's expertise to get them set up with Steve Jobs' latest funky designs.
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  • identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 20 Feb 2002 @ 10:27am

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    a lesson for apple

    lower price = more sales

    I started using apples, but I can not justify the price for what you get...

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      Imaginos, 20 Feb 2002 @ 3:23pm

      Re: Apple

      I never started using Apples, because my favorite software packages don't run on them. Same with Linux. I'd like to try both but...Chicken and egg I guess - low usage = fewer software developers = less software = low usage.

      Here's an idea - could the volunteer software development projects that have been used to advance Linux be used to port commercial software
      TO Linux? They'd have to get cooperation from the software manufacturers of course, but some manufacturers (except Micro$oft)may go for it because they'd get into some new niche markets with very little effort on their part. The developers would get the satisfaction of seeing more apps available for their favorite OS, which would increase its popularity.

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    D Henkel-Wallace, 20 Feb 2002 @ 3:24pm

    I get 404

    Perhaps you have to register somehow?
    Anyway, AC: I think the current iMac is pretty price competitive.

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  • identicon
    Bob, 21 Feb 2002 @ 9:49am

    be cautious, apple

    Apple best be cautious; literally every kind of Mac "boutique" that has opened up in my locality (orlando) in the past 5 years has folded. gateway tried the same thing, and the result is exactly the current situation: a place full of computers that nobody ends up buying.

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