Comments on: Apple takes wraps off fancy flagship store

Company plans to open its newest and biggest retail store, open 24 hours, on New York's swanky Fifth Avenue on Friday.
Photos: Apple's glass palace

[Joe Blow]

$2.5 Billion a Year, $4,000 Revenue Per Square Foot, What's Not to Like ...

not to mention 24x7x365 store hours (I assume they'll be open 366 days a year on leap years ;) ) and several hundred employees? When I go back East for my high school reunion, I'll make a point of visiting this new landmark (at 4 AM, just to help the Genius Bar employees stay awake), and probably the Central Park and Soho stores, just for the fun of it.

All this, and computers that cost about the same (and sometimes less) for identical (and in some cases, better) performance, features, and/or software, as the competition's products. Now, _that's_ cool. I wonder when Jobs' connections at Disney are going to result in the first Apple cruise ship, not to mention the first full-length motion picture completely produced on Macs (a lot of pre-and-post-production is already done on them, and some computer-generated imaging has been done on them, for both still backgrounds and full-motion, 3-D sequences)?

Yeah, I know, there are other things to be doing in Manhattan at 4 AM, but I'm deathly afraid of sexually-transmitted diseases, I fall asleep when I drink, and, well, I'm a geek, fer cryin' out loud!

All the Best,
Joe Blow

[CBSTV]

It's going to be a bustling place.

New York City is a Mecca for iPods. This new store will do well on
iPod business alone.

[BamaRose328]

Typo in sentence

September has only 30 days:

"Revenue from its retail stores was $2.35 billion for the fiscal year
2005, which ended Sept. 31."

[Leslie Katz]

Thanks...

...for your sharp eye. That has been fixed.

[J.G.]

We can do 24

I don't think the 24-hour Apple Store concept should be limited to
the Big Apple. We can handle that out here in the Pacific
Northwest for sure. Hopefully, Apple will borrow a page from
Starbucks and consider more 24-hour stores. Except in Red
States, of course.

[jay.butler]

What in the hell does politics have to do with retailing?

So, am I to believe that Apple and Starbucks got as successful as they have been over the last few years without any siginifcant percentage of Republican customers?

Wake up, smell the Starbucks and come back to reality...