Slices of Apple episode 3: Customer Service

by Victor Agreda Jr (Aug 29th 2014 7:00PM)

In episodes one and two of Slices of Apple, we looked at where Apple came from. We toured the crucible of design and engineering that forged Silicon Valley, and examined the fall of a titan in the 1990s when Apple devalued its brand before Steve Jo...

New Stanford Apple Store opening this Saturday at 10 AM

by Michael Grothaus (Sep 4th 2013 11:00AM)

Apple has announced that its new Stanford store in Palo Alto will have its grand reopening this Saturday, September 7 at 10 AM. The new store has been completely redesigned and features three floor-to-ceiling glass walls at its new ground-level loc...

Apple to relocate, expand last 'mini' Apple Store

by Michael Grothaus (Jun 11th 2013 8:00AM)

Apple is set to relocate the last of its "mini" retail stores to a new location, while dramatically expanding its size, according to ifoAppleStore. The mini-store in question is the Oakridge Apple Store in San Jose, Calif. The store will move from ...

Best Buy to provide Samsung mini-stores as Apple competition heats up

by Steven Sande (Mar 29th 2013 1:00PM)

The battles between Apple and Samsung have been heating up for a while, and there is a new battleground for the two foes -- the aisles of Best Buy stores. Geek.com reported this morning that some high-traffic Best Buy stores have been given orde...

Apple Store rendering shows another glass box in California

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 23rd 2012 2:30PM)

Anyone who has visited the Stanford Shopping Center cant miss the black sheeting that covers Apple's upcoming retail store, says a Palo Alto Online report. The new store will occupy two vacant storefronts and eventually will replace a mini-store...

Rumor Roundup, Episode 3: Your parts are leaking again

by Chris Rawson (May 7th 2012 8:30AM)

As expected, last week was a slow one for actual Apple news. Equally as expected, rumors of increasingly dubious parentage were shoehorned into various sites' RSS feeds to pad out the news cycle. In the old days this kind of "news" might have been ...

Apple to open mini stores inside Target

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 6th 2012 1:00PM)

Target is one of those stores that quietly carries a variety of Apple products. In between speakers and keyboards, you can find iPads, iPods and iTunes gift cards. Soon, you may find an Airport Extreme and maybe even a MacBook Air. This prediction...

Apple planning replacement for California "mini" Apple Store

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 15th 2011 2:00PM)

Most Apple stores are spacious, but there are some older locations that are teeny, tiny mini-stores. Many of these smaller stores were opened in 2004 and need a facelift. According to ifoAppleStore, one mini-store in Santa Rosa is moving to a ne...

University of Delaware campus will host an Apple Store of some kind

by Mike Schramm (May 12th 2011 6:00PM)

The University of Delaware has announced that it will allow the opening of an Apple Store on campus this fall. It's unknown yet what kind of store this will be -- whether it will be a full Apple Store, a mini-store or some kind of university-bra...

New Apple Store opening in the St. Louis Galleria this weekend

by Mike Schramm (Oct 13th 2010 7:30PM)

This weekend Apple will open up its 305th retail store in the St. Louis Galleria mall, right there at Brentwood and 40-64 (which I heard finally finished construction recently). Saturday is day one, and the store should be open at 9am, so if you wan...

John Nack updates Adobe 2O7.net controversy

by Michael Rose (Jan 9th 2008 7:00AM)

Adobe Photoshop product manager & corp-blogger John Nack has posted a followup on the issue of Adobe applications that 'phone home' to a quirky domain name; the official Adobe technote is here. In case you missed it, the commotion arose out of an...

Apple pushing the MiniStore with iTunes 7

by David Chartier (Sep 21st 2006 1:00PM)

This has been bothering me since I upgraded to iTunes 7, and I finally laid hands on a copy of v6 to confirm: in v7, Apple seems to be pushing the new MiniStore they introduced in v6.0.2, as in: they don't make turning it off nearly as obvious anymo...

Roundup of the other new iTunes 7 features

by David Chartier (Sep 12th 2006 9:15PM)

We've given you a walkthrough of the heavy hitting new features in the just-released iTunes 7. We've shown you the new backup feature, as well as the slick new reverse syncing, and we've even explored how the new iTunes 7 UI could hint at an Aqua ren...

iTunes MiniStore now asks for your permission

by Fabienne Serriere (Jan 18th 2006 11:00AM)

We're happy that Apple has now decided to turn off the iTunes MiniStore by default when you install and run iTunes 6.0.2. Advocates worried about data that the MiniStore was sending back to the Apple mother ship will be slightly appeased that Apple h...

iTunes 6.0.2 spies on you

by Scott McNulty (Jan 11th 2006 12:36PM)

OK, it isn't quite that bad, but iTunes does send data back to an Apple related service while you are listening to music in your library and have the 'mini-store' open. Why does it do this? So it can recommend stuff based on what you are currently p...