Apple Store @ Waterside Shops
March 10th, 2007
UPDATE: This person was the first person in line at 5am well before anyone else arrived. Another person that was at the opening also sent me some video. His turned out way better than mine. He probably didn’t record it on a camera!
Well Doug and I just got back from another Apple Store Grand Opening. Two weeks ago we were in Estero, FL for the Coconut Point Opening and today we were in Naples, Fl for the Waterside Shops Opening. The one in Naples has a totally different atmosphere than Coconut Point and I think that the Coconut Point store will do more business in the long run. Why you ask? Well not to many nerds that I know are shopping at this store, this store and this store. That’s just to name a couple of stores around the Apple store and inside Waterside. Once again I have uploaded photos to my flickr site and have also posted this short video of the pre-opening events.
Now all I have to do is keep doing web development on the side to save enough money to get a Macbook Pro. I think we are through for a long while with Apple store grand openings. We now have stores from Tampa South and east over to Miami.
Ratty said:
I think you are wrong.
As in I don’t think that Apple here is aiming at nerds really.
The whole point of Apple’s Estero / Waterside stores is to attract the people who DO shop at Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Tiffianys. You didn’t mention Saks 4th or others.
There is a lot of people from “Up North” who spend winter here and as such they are sorely lacking on Apple support here - I mean I’m grateful that there are now two stores one 7 miles south and the other 5 miles north of me.
Just a shame that Apple at the moment don’t have anything I want to buy. Where are the revs of the current machine? Where is the Apple TV? Well the money will just have to sit and accrue interest.
BTW I think the nerd ratio at Coconut Point may have been due to pent up demand… We waited around six months to book a faulty machine in for service - and maybe we weren’t the only ones based on how long it took to process.