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How we love our eagle-eyed TUAW operatives across the globe! This time, Earnest comes through with this shot of an Apple Store under construction in beautiful San Luis Obispo, California. A quick glance at Apple's jobs page revealed that sales positions are still available for this location. To get an instant map to any address, just go to your Address Book and right click on the address field of any one of your contacts and select "Map Of." The address will then be revealed in Google Maps on Safari. You can do the same if a data detector determines there is an address in an e-mail in Mail.
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TK said 7:24PM on 4-06-2007
Somewhere in the middle of nowhere: 1
Vancouver, BC: 0
We're still waiting!
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halhiker said 7:26PM on 4-06-2007
Apple! What are you doing? Does SLO really need an Apple store? C'mon, it's a sleepy little town of less than 50,000 people with a few smaller town in the neighborhood. Tourism consists of those who drive in from the 101. Don't get me wrong; I like SLO. I've climbed Bishop's Peak a number of times and I love Tio Albertos for a killer burrito. But they need an Apple Store?
Now the Palm Springs area, they need an Apple Store. We have THREE cities with the population of SLO. We have visitors who fly in from all over the world to visit. In addition to the over 250,000 year round population we have about twice as many seasonal residents (with lots of disposable income) and millions of annual visitors. Before Apple builds another store anyway we need one in the Palm Springs area, preferably in Palm Desert which is central to most area residents (and where Bill Gates has a home).
While I may sound like it, I don't work for the Chamber of Commerce. I just hate driving 100 miles to get to an Apple Store. And I live in La Quinta, not Palm Desert.
C'mon, Apple, get with it. Send some love to us desert rats!
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MxSix said 7:26PM on 4-06-2007
I visited San Luis a few weeks ago and walked right by this! However, there was no Apple logo on it. Good shot Earnest.
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SLORep said 7:40PM on 4-06-2007
Believe me, this store is going to KILL. Only Apple store from San Jose to Thousand Oaks. You'll see people from both ends coming up/down to this store. Do not underestimate SLO, this will be THE Apple store in no time at all.
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Old Powermac said 8:00PM on 4-06-2007
There's one coming to Fresno baby ya!!! I'll try and snap a shot of any activity I see going on there. :)
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Michael said 8:01PM on 4-06-2007
SLO is a University town. It makes perfect sense to have a store there. By the way... its so very odd for me... because I remember going to the University store so often to drool and play with the NeXT computers when they first came out... sigh.. memories.
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Aaron said 8:49PM on 4-06-2007
I go to school at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo...Sure the town is small, but it is a college town. I am very excited for this Apple store.
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halhiker said 9:23PM on 4-06-2007
Sure SLO is a college town but where do those students come from? Obviously not SLO. And when do students buy computers? Usually mom and dad pony up the loot before the kids head to college. Do most collegians have extra loot to spend on anything besides beer or the ingredients to make beer?
The SLO store will do OK numbers (and kill at first) but the Palm Springs area is were Apple needs to be. We have TWO colleges and ten high schools, 120 golf courses and lots of tourists.
Oh wait. SLO also has a big prison, too. I guess maybe Apple must be counting on the inmate business, too.
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deedah1 said 9:42PM on 4-06-2007
Build it and they will come. :-)
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Beck said 9:54PM on 4-06-2007
I put in my application and i hope that they will give me some work. Not due to open till June is the rumor i heard when i put my ear to the ground.
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Aaron said 11:06PM on 4-06-2007
to halhiker...
I couldn't agree more! I also live in the Valley too and I wrote a letter to Apple saying how much they could benefit for the ever increasing desire for an Apple store. I mean, Gateway even had a store in Palm Desert.
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Nate Terrell said 12:14AM on 4-07-2007
SLO as a county is not that small it is far over 50000 the last estimate in 2005 5 for slo country was 255,478 so we're not that small...
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Bruce said 3:29AM on 4-07-2007
I am a student at Cal Poly SLO, and I did pony up the money to buy my own Intel MacPro, and where can I take it if it breaks??? No where close, thats for sure, had many problems with my powerbook as well, and it was a pain.
I also would purchase ProCare if I had a store in a resonable distance, and I think slo is wealthy enough that many of it's citizens would purchase it as well to get some training on their mac.
Oh and the store is right across from Bali's (BTW)
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T Shane said 11:40AM on 4-07-2007
Between the book store at Cal Poly and the MacSuperstore, SLO needs an Apple store like they need another Poly Royal riot. I suspect that they're just trying to capitalize on the success of one of their own authorized resellers. And, yes, I shop at the MacSuperstore.
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J said 1:37PM on 4-07-2007
I live about 30 minutes away from SLO so this is great news! I bought my Macbook in Thousand Oaks and now I have a place much closer to go to if I need it to be serviced.
I too went to school at Cal Poly and there are definitely a lot of students there that prefer Apple products.
Glad to see this coming.
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Jon said 3:01PM on 4-07-2007
Why are people complaining? One extra Apple store in the world is great, wherever it happens to be located.
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SLOnomo said 3:28PM on 4-07-2007
Wicked burn on MacSuperHorror! Payback for being the smug jerks that they are. Good riddance!
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halhiiker said 1:28AM on 4-09-2007
I'm not really complaining, just jealous.
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halhiiker said 2:10AM on 4-09-2007
OK, just a few numbers from a jealous soul.
Population of SLO County approx. 250,000-one new Apple Store
Population of Riverside County approx. 2 MILLION-NO new Apple Store
Population of Coachella Valley (Palm Springs area) 330,000-No store
Cities in SLO County
SLO Population in 2005 43,926 (down about 1 percent from 2000).
SLO median income $37,400 per capita taxable sales $14,272
Atascadero pop. est. 26,000, median income $48,276
Paso Robles pop. 27,477 median income $39,000
Cities less than 10,000 pop.
Morro Bay median income $40,300
Pismo Beach $54,400
Cities in the Coachella Valley
Palm Desert pop. est 47, 058 (not counting seasonal residents)
PD Median income $58,900, per capita taxable sales 19,125
Palm Springs pop. est. 47,082 PS median income $43,800
Cathedral City pop. est. 51,713 CC median income $47,400
La Quinta (my city) est. pop. 38,232 (up 61.4% since 2000!)
LQ median income $54,552
Indio pop. est. 70,542 median income $38,878
Cities smaller than 10,000
Indian Wells median income $114,500
Rancho Mirage median income $72,900
Now I'm happy SLO is getting an Apple Store. Really. But the Palm Springs area had over $5.22 BILLION DOLLARS in taxable sales in 2004 (and it's only gone up since then).
We have the people.
We have the money.
We have the time.
We have the need.
We don't have an Apple Store.
We'd like an Apple Store, too.
Please.
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Brandon. said 12:07AM on 4-10-2007
Side note, for a few days there was actually an opening date underneath the Apple logo. I don't remember the exact date, but I believe it was mid August.
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