Apple’s joining in on the Black Friday fun by offering discounts online and at its retail stores. New Aluminum Macboks are being offered for $101 below retail price. The white Macbook is being offered for $948, a $51 discount.
It’s nice of Apple to offer something for Black Friday, but these discounts aren’t too impressive as far as Black Friday goes.
Someone has created an unofficial virtual replica of Apple's famed retail stores. They come complete with vintage Think Different posters and a virtual Genius Bar. Visit it while you can, I sense this one isn't going to last
Does it seem odd to anyone else that Apple allegedly is planning an anti-Vista campaign that will be waged from within Apple's 170 retail stores?
Perhaps I am an atypical Windows user. I have been in the New York Apple SoHo store once. My mission: To see the famed glass staircase. It's not that I hate Macs. I just am accustomed to Windows.
Maybe Apple thinks there's a large pool of switchers among iPod users who visit Apple's retail chains? Or might it be that Apple execs believe there's a huge, untapped market of first-time computer buyers who need some in-store persuading to convince them of the folly of their Windows-leaning ways?
