New York's flagship Apple Store doing great business

Is that even possible?

$440,000,000 / year
= $1,205,479 / day
= 482 laptops / day (assuming $2500 per laptop)

That sounds like a ridiculous quantity of laptops!

Maybe they're booking all iPhone revenue up front? So something like $250 for the phone + $100/month*24months = $2650 / iPhone?

So then 482 laptops + iPhones / day at about $2500 each? I guess that's more plausible but still, wow!

The Apple Store in SOHO always ticks me off. They always leave their front doors wide open in the summertime, wasting tons of energy on AC. I thought Apple was supposed to be an environmentally friendly company - isn't/wasn't Al Gore on their board?

The Apple Store on 5th Ave is located in the shopping district in NY its full of uber expensive stores. So it shouldn't surprise anybody who actually knows about Manhattan.

Yeah that place is a tourist magnet

I remember when Apple only had the Soho store. OMG that place was even worse than this one.You had to pratically wait 40 minutes plus just to try a mac, and to get your ipod or mac fix it would take over two hour or more specially fridays. The great thing about the Soho store is that they have mini concerts all year long. Last one they had was the Jonas brothers and the residents were piss off to no end because of the teen and pre teens were getting rowdy ..lol can you believe it pree teen girls menacing old people because of the Jonas brothers..LOL

I wish they open up a store in Hong Kong... they've got one in Beijing... but still no shop in Hong Kong... it is a big disappointment really. I would have thought Hong Kong being a gateway to China from the world, and a pretty important city in the world map, they will deserve some attention from Apple... But I guess there's a lot of contractual agreements that forbid Apple opening it's own store in many places where they do not distribute their own products, ie: Hong Kong.

Well think about it. There are easily a couple hundred people in there at any time, and it's open 24 hours a day. Even in the middle of the night there's more people in there than an average Apple Store would see in the middle of the day. A lot of those people are tourists who have a) a lot of money to spend and b) maybe don't have an Apple Store where they come from, so they've been waiting to get there specifically to make a major purchase.

I hope that store in Lincoln Square is true. It would finally be one that was located conveniently for me to get to from home, and maybe a little less crowded.

seems hard to believe a retail store can average $1.2million per day. That means 1200 people have to spend $1000 each. Or 2400 people spending $500 each. I've never been there so I don't know how crowded it actually gets, but those numbers seem quite high.

LOL

It's easy to rake in money when you overcharge your customers and make insane margins.

Privyet Yabloko,

A store in Moscow (think: Tverskaya or GUM) is long overdue. The Apple brand here is very strong and a retail store would further fuel Apple's growth.