Retail Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Brooklyn's borough prez makes a play for Apple Store

by Michael Rose (Apr 12th, 2010)

It may seem like New York City is already pretty well stocked with Apple retail outlets. With four full-scale storefronts in Manhattan, including the iconic 24-hour 5th Ave cube and the new Upper West Side 'temple of iPad,' the city's 5th store in ...

Fifth Ave Apple Store is NYC's fifth most-photographed location

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 23rd, 2010)

Philip DeWitt at Apple 2.0 is reporting that Apple's Fifth Avenue retail store is now New York City's fifth most-photographed location. The ranking is according to a year-old analysis of 35 million Flickr images by Cornell University students on a ...

Apple store in Brazil? Jobs says no

by Mike Schramm (Mar 17th, 2010)

Rio de Janeiro may have picked up the 2016 Olympics, but they won't be getting an Apple store. According to MacMagazine Brazil, the city's Secretary of Heritage emailed Steve Jobs personally to ask if there were any plans to start up an Apple store ...

Talkcast Reminder: Tonight at 10pm EDT, now with added fun!

by Kelly Guimont (Mar 14th, 2010)

Yes, that's 10pm Eastern DAYLIGHT Time; hopefully by now you've worked out exactly what time it is where you are so you can show up on time instead of coming in at the end. (Thanks, cell phone with automatically updated clock!) Tonight's show will ...

Rumor: iPad in-store reservations may be over 40,000

by Michael Rose (Mar 13th, 2010)

If you've got a pickup reservation and you happen to know your ID number for it -- and you made your reservation either at the very beginning of the day yesterday, or at the very end of the day -- let us know in the comments and we'll start doing ...

"Overwhelming" demand limiting iPad in-store pickup

by Dave Caolo (Mar 12th, 2010)

According to MacDailyNews, shoppers who placed iPad pre-orders this morning are being told by Apple Store employees that demand could affect their plans for in-store pickup. It seems that several customers ordered iPads this morning, opting for ...

Possibly as many as 50,000 iPads pre-ordered in first two hours

by Chris Rawson (Mar 12th, 2010)

The early adopters are out in force today. Based on analysis from Fortune's Apple 2.0 blog & the investors of the AAPL board on Investor Village, it seems that as many as 50,000 iPads were pre-ordered in its first two hours of availability this ...

iPad fever: What didja get?

by Erica Sadun (Mar 12th, 2010)

With iPad preorders finally available, at least for USians, I was relieved to place my order for an 16 GB iPad, due to be delivered on or after April 3rd. Along with a bluetooth keyboard (which I've been meaning to pick up for some time now), a ...

GDC 2010: Call of Duty: World at War Zombies postmortem

by Mike Schramm (Mar 10th, 2010)

Russell Clarke of Ideaworks Game Studio hosted a post-mortem report near the end of the first day of GDC 2010 about Call of Duty: World at War Zombies for the iPhone. The game was one of the first big brand hits on the App Store -- it successfully ...

Report: RIAA pressured Apple into creating iTunes LP

by Mike Schramm (Mar 9th, 2010)

This feature over at GigaOM has quite a few interesting insights about the iTunes LP program -- while Apple sells it wholeheartedly as "the visual experience of the record album," it appears the story behind the story is not quite so clean. ...

ChangeWave: 27% of e-reader buyers wish they'd waited for the iPad

by Mel Martin (Mar 6th, 2010)

Some positive news for the iPad: ChangeWave Research says when they surveyed people who already have an e-reader, 27% wish they had waited for an iPad. Now, if someone can work out a Kindle/iPad trade-in program, there's bound to be some money in ...

The saga of the Apple stair comes to a $9950 end

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 3rd, 2010)

Ten days ago we reported that eBay seller heylookitskibbe was auctioning a stair from the staircase from the Fifth Avenue Apple retail store in New York. Shortly after our report, the stuff hit the fan. Heylookitskibbe turned out to be former ...

iBookstore expanding internationally ... eventually

by Chris Rawson (Mar 2nd, 2010)

The announcement of the iBookstore wasn't particularly surprising -- analysts had expected such a move from Apple for months. What was somewhat surprising was that as of the initial announcement of the iPad and its tie-in with the iBookstore, there ...

Macmillan trying to sell readers 'hardcover' ebooks

by TJ Luoma (Mar 2nd, 2010)

John Siracusa drew my attention to an article by Macmillan CEO John Sargent on the agency model, availability and price, in which he says that the company actually plans to keep their hardcover/paperback separation even while selling ebooks. While ...

Despite legal threats, Apple stair back on Ebay

by Dave Caolo (Mar 2nd, 2010)

A former Apple Store employee has defied legal threats and re-listed a broken stair on Ebay. In 2008, three broken stairs were removed from the spiral staircase in the Fifth Avenue Apple retail store in New York. Former employee Mark Burstiner ...

Apple gives Vancouver Olympic visitors a rare treasure

by Steven Sande (Feb 27th, 2010)

For some fans of the Olympic Winter Games, it's all about the beauty and grace of figure skating. For others, it's the organized chaos of short-track speed skating, or the aerial bravado of the half-pipe. And for some, it has nothing to do with the ...