Copycat Impact Forces Apple to Invest

**blkcadi** · 10-25-2009, 01:09 PM

I went to this new store today just to say I did, nice clean and new. The chatter and clapping got on my nerves. (get a life)
Odd thing was, as hard as I looked around I didn't see any Apple products there at all. Gates is playing catch-up and soon will fail in my opinion just like Gateway did.

**Zeal** · 10-25-2009, 01:45 PM

Anyone else notice that HUGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EE Girl in the green shirt at the start of the line??

**rhekt** · 10-25-2009, 01:46 PM

seriously folks...i think the first guy was kidding about the hot chicks...did you see the mammoth land whale in the green shirt at the beginning of this video...besides all my local apple stores make you feel like youve stepped into an abercrombie & fitch catalog...hot chicks and handsome dudes....[if thats what your into]..LOL

dangit Zeal you got to it before me LOL

**Maerlyn13** · 10-25-2009, 02:01 PM

Which one in San Antonio? Cause I havent seen one yet.

**Channan** · 10-25-2009, 02:08 PM

Originally Posted by StealthBravo

The Apple store by me has several hot girls working there.

The Apple store by my house has a bunch of fat guys.

**ipoong** · 10-25-2009, 02:13 PM

Apple, clone the hot chick.

M$, lame copy. How about invent something USEFUL that others can steal.

(sorry MS fanboiz, I use both)

**ebl4287** · 10-25-2009, 02:18 PM

This makes me sick

**Channan** · 10-25-2009, 02:18 PM

Originally Posted by never2hollywood

Well they had a choice between a boring "uniform" for all employees, which would deter customers, or a friendly, comfortable looking staff.

Saying "they have brightly coloured shirts" contributes to their image as a "copycat" is ridiculous. Does that mean every time i wear a green shirt and jeans I'm trying to look like an MS Store employee?

Also, open space and computers at comfortable working, eye level is just called ergonomics. Any corporation with a brain would implement this if they wanted to sell people on hardware. It makes it accessible.

This whole argument for "Copycat Stores" is paper thin, if it even has any substance to begin with.

THe only copycat action here are the stores itself. "Apple's got them, we should have them."

There's a way you can achieve all of that without borrowing Apple's store designers. I really hope you were kidding, because it looks like MS moved into an already existing Apple store and replaced all the Macs with PCs.

**KooLLaiD** · 10-25-2009, 02:41 PM

Originally Posted by StealthBravo

I doubt MS will open more than two or three of these novelty stores. And trust me the chicks are hot at the San Antonio Apple Store

That's what was said about the original Apple stores. I actually hope MS really pounds on Apple. I hate the stores, They are full of pretentious douchebags for the most part, and people that are usually lackeys. I worked for Apple Corporate for 8 years and quit because I was tired of the ********. I had heard numerous horror stories of the Apple Stores in Austin and other places. ****, My team which I personally supported over $45million in sales annually were doing a team building treasure hunt and had a bad experience at the Apple store. Funny how even Apple employees have lots of bad experiences at their Sister Stores. The Retail Stores are completely separate from Corp in reality btw.

Originally Posted by brotherbond007

This is so lame, just like their products. The only way to compete is to dress like them (Apple), sound, look, get more females (airheads). Who cares if their stores are bigger? This is laughable. By the way I own an Xbox 360, and mini netbook on windows XP and a mini mac. LMAO

And yet you don't even know the proper name of your products? It's a Mac Mini tard

Originally Posted by blkcadi

I went to this new store today just to say I did, nice clean and new. The chatter and clapping got on my nerves. (get a life)
Odd thing was, as hard as I looked around I didn't see any Apple products there at all. Gates is playing catch-up and soon will fail in my opinion just like Gateway did.

Ugh. Gateway was Before the Apple Stores, and also It's not Gates Anymore. It's Ballmer

**santaf** · 10-25-2009, 03:04 PM

i'm just gonna have to say that this article i do not like. Ummm so Microsoft decided to go for a spacious store instead of a packed one... that makes complete sense but yeah i guess every store that is spacious it's just a copy of apple store. they do look different. obviously they are gonna put their computers on tables spread out what do you expect them to do? float them in the air or just put them on the ground?

**Grassmasta** · 10-25-2009, 03:05 PM

Good looking girls in both the Apple stores in Austin. Lots of dorky dudes too, which makes it easy to come off looking rico swavay.

I wonder what brand of pc's they will be carrying? I've certainly never heard of an MS pc. This MS store seems like a big fail.

**conoven** · 10-25-2009, 03:40 PM

I dont see why people think that MS is not copying Apples store... it looks just like apple! And the only reason they yelled and **** was bc it was grand opening... come on MS do something better next time!

**smuggler** · 10-25-2009, 04:30 PM

too bad, doesn't change my opinion about the shoddy cheap hardware Microsoft offers, I actually think less of them now for their lack of innovation in reinventing the apple store

**StealthBravo** · 10-25-2009, 04:31 PM

Originally Posted by conoven

I dont see why people think that MS is not copying Apples store... it looks just like apple! And the only reason they yelled and **** was bc it was grand opening... come on MS do something better next time!

I agree. It's so obvious that they are trying to copy Apple's store that its absurd that people would think otherwise. The fact is that they have been reactive instead of proactive when it comes to competing with Apple.

**supreme-livin** · 10-25-2009, 06:06 PM

lol what a joke

apple isnt bought for looks
peps just want a computer that actually works

**Carlos** · 10-25-2009, 06:36 PM

Originally Posted by anix11

i hope your kidding about the girls....

me too, I swear i saw the Green M&M, in the video.....

But as far as the store, WOW, it def copied the apple store guess apple will need a decorating patent or something...lol

YOu would think the minds behind microsoft would be smart enough to come up with there own catchy store theme ya know

**kaaroFC** · 10-25-2009, 06:44 PM

Do you know all the swine flu you could get from so many hands touching... :s

**goodluck4287** · 10-25-2009, 06:55 PM

I didn't read all the posts ahead of me, so it may have been said...

I could definitely see the screens lining the room come to a halt with a beautiful blue screen of death. It almost looks like it already.

That girl in the video must have been wearing a 5XL t-shirt. Guess Microsoft will have to raise their prices to pay for the extra fabric for her shirts and health insurance for obesity.

**TooSlo** · 10-25-2009, 06:59 PM

Originally Posted by KooLLaiD

And yet you don't even know the proper name of your products? It's a Mac Mini tard

Feeling the need to reaffirm that whole image that only self important douchebags own crapples?

**Kruejl** · 10-25-2009, 07:01 PM

^^^"crapples"? Never owned a Mac, have you? DB.

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