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Asymco's Horace Dediu touts record Apple Store revenues in Q1 2013

by Steven Sande (May 20th, 2013)

Asymco mobile industry analyst Horace Dediu is up to his number-crunching again, this time with numbers showing that Apple Stores continue to have the top retail revenues per visitor of any retailer in the US. The first quarter of 2013 (Apple's second fiscal quarter) saw visitor growth of 7 ...

Apple to re-locate flagship store in San Francisco

by Steven Sande (May 16th, 2013)

Attendees of Macworld/iWorld and WWDC have always known that if they needed an Apple fix during their conference stay, they could walk over to the Apple Store at the corner of Stockton and Ellis streets. The SFGate blog is reporting that the company has submitted plans to open a new flagship store ...

Fifth Avenue Apple Store experiences a water leak

by Mike Schramm (May 8th, 2013)

The Apple Store on New York's Fifth Avenue is a veritable marvel of engineering, with its glass cube leading down into an underground space. But putting the store underground like that makes it more vulnerable to water leaks, and sure enough, that's what's happened earlier today in New York. The ...

Recent Apple thefts include high-speed NYC chase, Colorado storefront smash-and-grab

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 6th, 2013)

Apple devices keep their value, which makes them an attractive target for thieves. Two recent stories highlight how both individuals and Apple stores are vulnerable to theft. One report involves a movie-like high-speed chase, while the other one features a well-timed smash-and-grab heist. The New ...

Huge crowds greet Berlin Apple Store

by Steven Sande (May 6th, 2013)

Judging from the huge crowds that attended the opening of the new Apple Store Kurfürstendamm in Berlin on Friday, the German capital was starving for an Apple Store of its own. The Berlin store is the 11th Apple Store in Germany, but the first in Berlin. The video below shows the controlled ...

Daily Update for May 6, 2013

by Steven Sande (May 6th, 2013)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player (requires ...

Apple places product displays outside future Berlin Apple Store

by Matt Tinsley (May 1st, 2013)

German site Apfelpage reports that Apple has installed new display cabinets outside of its new, yet-to-be-opened Berlin store. The displays currently promote the iPhone 5, with mock, over-sized iPhones not uncommon to other Apple retail stores. It's understood that the move will attract customers ...

China continues to be an important driver of revenue growth for Apple

by Yoni Heisler (Apr 26th, 2013)

With Apple generating tens of billions of dollars in revenue each and every quarter, analysts have long been asking how Apple will be able to not only maintain, but increase its growth in the years to come. While there is always speculation surrounding great new mythical products the company may ...

Berlin Apple Store opens May 3

by Steven Sande (Apr 25th, 2013)

Residents of Germany's capital city, Berlin, will have their very own Apple Store to visit starting next Friday. On May 3, 2013, the Apple Store Kurfürstendamm Berlin will open at 5 PM local time. If past is prelude, early arrivals at the opening can expect clapping and cheering employees, ...

Inside Afghanistan's unofficial Apple Store

by John-Michael Bond (Apr 24th, 2013)

When a gap appears in the market, entrepreneurs will step in to fill it. A few years ago, we reported about a rash of unofficial Apple stores popping up, and being shut down, in China. Now Quartz is reporting about an unofficial Apple store in Kabul, Afghanistan. Unlike the fancy Chinese ...

Apple Store app updated with iPhone upgrade notifications

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 24th, 2013)

Apple has pushed out a new update to its Apple Store app for iOS. Version 2.6 will notify you when an item you've ordered has been shipped and delivered. But perhaps the coolest push notification is the one that tells you when your iPhone is eligible for upgrade pricing. The iPhone upgrade ...

Apple drops prices on refurbished second-, third-gen iPads

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 23rd, 2013)

Those of you looking to get your hands on a qualified refurbished iPad might want to check out the Apple store online. Apple has dropped prices on second- and third-generation models. The discounts apply to only the WiFi+3G and WiFi+Cellular models and not the WiFi-only models. Interested ...

Daily Update for April 17, 2013

by Steven Sande (Apr 17th, 2013)

Scaffolding comes down from first Berlin Apple store

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 17th, 2013)

Next month, Apple will open its first store in Berlin, and in a sign that the completion of the store is progressing as scheduled, today the exterior construction scaffolding has started to come down. AppleInsider got its hands on some of the pictures of the store sans scaffolding and from the ...

How Ron Johnson tried, and failed, to inject a bit of Apple culture into JC Penney

by Yoni Heisler (Apr 14th, 2013)

After 17 months on the job, J.C. Penney last week showed CEO Ron Johnson the door after the former Apple executive failed to turn sales around at the nationwide department store. While much of the discussion surrounding Johnson's unceremonious firing from J.C. Penney has centered on ...