Apple Store at Downtown Disney?

EPCOT Explorer

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jt04 said:
Not at all. My clubs would not have a goal of getting people sloshed. They would be for showcasing great food and music/entertainment generally. And they would be inside where people could choose to go with their families or not. They would all have to be PG rated or possibly PG-13 after a certain hour. But certainly no content like Disney was forced to evict from the HoB.

You read my posts with a closed mind I guess. :p :wave:

Beware of sterotypes.

Hi Adventuers' Club zealots.......er I mean fans. :wave:
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No, no closed mind, but just thinking of what you posted several days ago.

And getting "sloshed" as you put it was never the goal of the AC to my understanding...It was entertainment.
 
jt04

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EPCOT Explorer said:
No, no closed mind, but just thinking of what you posted several days ago.

And getting "sloshed" as you put it was never the goal of the AC to my understanding...It was entertainment.
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I have NEVER said it was the goal of the AC, and always have said the AC should reopen. I have only been against the PI concept and it's non-family design.

Which is why all the venom directed at me says more for those attacking me than anything about me.

I'm still confused by it.........but not really.
 
EPCOT Explorer

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jt04 said:
I have NEVER said it was, and always have said the AC should reopen. I have only been against the PI concept and it's non-family concept.

Which is why all the venom directed at me says more for those attacking me than anything about me.

I'm still confused by it.........but not really.
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I gotcha...:)
 
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tirian said:
Hmmm. I don't know if enough tourists would purchase electronics on vacation to justify the Apple store. How often did you see Guests buy iPods or X-Boxes at Virgin?
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American tourists wont - but foreign tourists will (specifically South Americans). Best Buy on OBT sells quite a bit of game consoles to brazillians - it's cheaper for them up here and the taxes arent as bad.
 
DisneyDreamerK

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I was in the 5th Ave Apple Store (The Cube) yesterday. The place was SO packed that you couldn't even move. Tons of people were carrying purchased iMacs, notebooks and iPods outside. (Well at least I think they were purchased cause it's NYC so you never know lol) It was insane. I work in the Staten Island Apple Store. It was my first time at the cube and I was overwhelmed by the amount of people inside and outside the store.

I believe that an Apple Store in DTD would do just fine. Even if there are other stores in Florida, it doesn't matter. There are 3 in NYC and they are building another.

Even the fact of having a Genius Bar is great for Disney. If you iPod or iPhone breaks in Disney, you can easily go to the store and get it fixed or swapped. Forget your power adapter at home? Forget your iPhone charger? Need a car charger? Just go to the DTD Apple Store! Even if you don't bring a laptop, you can go and check your e-mail or even this web site. If it doesn't go where the Virgin Mega Store is, there should definitely be one somewhere else in DTD.

If you build it, they will come....and I hope they do so I can transfer! lol

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devjohnson

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disneydreamerk said:
i was in the 5th ave apple store (the cube) yesterday. The place was so packed that you couldn't even move. Tons of people were carrying purchased imacs, notebooks and ipods outside. (well at least i think they were purchased cause it's nyc so you never know lol) it was insane. I work in the staten island apple store. It was my first time at the cube and i was overwhelmed by the amount of people inside and outside the store.

I believe that an apple store in dtd would do just fine. Even if there are other stores in florida, it doesn't matter. There are 3 in nyc and they are building another.

Even the fact of having a genius bar is great for disney. If you ipod or iphone breaks in disney, you can easily go to the store and get it fixed or swapped. Forget your power adapter at home? Forget your iphone charger? Need a car charger? Just go to the dtd apple store! Even if you don't bring a laptop, you can go and check your e-mail or even this web site. If it doesn't go where the virgin mega store is, there should definitely be one somewhere else in dtd.

If you build it, they will come....and i hope they do so i can transfer! Lol

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thank you
 
marcriss

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DisneyDreamerK said:
I was in the 5th Ave Apple Store (The Cube) yesterday. The place was SO packed that you couldn't even move. Tons of people were carrying purchased iMacs, notebooks and iPods outside. (Well at least I think they were purchased cause it's NYC so you never know lol) It was insane. I work in the Staten Island Apple Store. It was my first time at the cube and I was overwhelmed by the amount of people inside and outside the store.

I believe that an Apple Store in DTD would do just fine. Even if there are other stores in Florida, it doesn't matter. There are 3 in NYC and they are building another.

Even the fact of having a Genius Bar is great for Disney. If you iPod or iPhone breaks in Disney, you can easily go to the store and get it fixed or swapped. Forget your power adapter at home? Forget your iPhone charger? Need a car charger? Just go to the DTD Apple Store! Even if you don't bring a laptop, you can go and check your e-mail or even this web site. If it doesn't go where the Virgin Mega Store is, there should definitely be one somewhere else in DTD.

If you build it, they will come....and I hope they do so I can transfer! lol

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I completely agree! As stated earlier, flagship stores aren't always sales driven (think The World of Disney on 5th Avenue). It's about exposure. Not everyone has an Apple store. I would expect an Apple store to be like Innoventions when Nintendo was in there, lots of stuff to play with. People might not buy it there, but they may buy when they get home. Our local Apple store also has some digital cameras and video cameras too.
 
slappy magoo

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An Apple store in DTD really wouldn't be about making money any more than the Innoventions pavilions in Epcot are about making money. It would be about showcasing product, hardware and software/apps.

People might not go to Orlando to buy a computer, but if you wanted to see what constitutes cutting-edge, you'd probably go in just to see what's what. Were they to add stuff like free shipping if you bought something in Orlando, and assistance to back up stuff like pics and songs and movies, the wifi necessary to purchase new songs and movies while there (maybe one floor could be a coffee shop with wifi), and extra accessories (external hard drives, and hell theyt could probably stay in business just by having ipod chargers for all the tourists that forgot theirs! :D )

However, I'd suspect the old Virgin store is just too big to make an Apple store feasible. The space is just too big, and the real estate too valuable (expensive) for just showing off and selling accessories.
 
castevens

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slappy magoo said:
People might not go to Orlando to buy a computer, but if you wanted to see what constitutes cutting-edge, you'd probably go in just to see what's what.
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Correct. When a company gets as big as Apple, sometimes a store isn't meant to always be in the black so much as to help all the OTHER stores be in the black. It's about brand recognition.
 
Astro_Digital

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I do not believe all these Apple Fan boys.

The fact is HP is a sponsor in Walt Disney World not Apple. If I wanted a computer I would never buy any Apple.

Cutting Edge !!!!

The innovators at Apple do not even have BluRay!!!!

The Touch is going down too. http://www.gadgetell.com/tech/comment/fall-ipod-showdown-taking-shape/

I think as been said in the past for most people Apple Store = No Reason to go to DTD.

As for people needing a charger, who goes to WDW to listen to Mp3s and if you wanted to give people a place buy accessories what about people with Apple products?

Open a Best Buy flagship store. They sell Apple products and it would keep the cult of Jobs happy.
 
GymLeaderPhil

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Astro_Digital said:
I do not believe all these Apple Fan boys.

The fact is HP is a sponsor in Walt Disney World not Apple.
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Because HP absorbed the original sponsor of Mission Space in 2002: Compaq.

I recall someone on here saying that HP is not interested in renewing the sponsorship.

Astro_Digital said:
The innovators at Apple do not even have BluRay!!!!
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Physical media is dying. Just look at Virgin Megastore or the number of newspapers that are no longer in production.

Astro_Digital said:
Open a Best Buy flagship store...
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And bring with it their horrible customer service and overpriced products! Yay!
 
Master Yoda

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jt04 said:
As is the physical hard drive I think.
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The hard drive is going nowhere. It is merely changing to a smaller much faster form with no moving parts. It will be quite some time before the traditional hard drives go the way of the dinosaur. The price per gig is simply too good for traditional platter hard drives when compared to SSD.
 
jt04

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Master Yoda said:
The hard drive is going nowhere. It is merely changing to a smaller much faster form with no moving parts. It will be quite some time before the traditional hard drives go the way of the dinosaur. The price per gig is simply too good for traditional platter hard drives when compared to SSD.
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That is why I said "physical" hard drive.

See "Moore's Law". It won't be that long.

But there is an even more compelling tech. And that is the trend for people to store their information off of their computers by "leasing" storage.
 
Master Yoda

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jt04 said:
That is why I said "physical" hard drive.

See "Moore's Law". It won't be that long.

But there is an even more compelling tech. And that is the trend for people to store their information off of their computers by "leasing" storage.
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There is still a "physical" hard drive, weather it be a SSD drive or a typical platter drive is irrelevant. There will always be some type of physical storage until we reach a point in time where wireless networks get so fast and so complete that we can work wirelessly connected to a server at compareable speeds. That is so far down the road it is not even funny. Moore's law also works both ways. While SSD capacities are increasing and the price dropping so are platter drives. We still have a few years before SSD drives gain market share and even longer before they replace platter drives entirely if they do at all.
 

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