Why Isn't Apple Prevelant at WDW?

[TheBeatles]

Steve Jobs is on the board.

Apple is an innovative/leading company.

What gives?

 

[Astro_Digital]

I think the iPod and Apple products are boring so what does it matter.
There is not even a Blu-Ray option on Apple computers so much for innovation.

When was the last time WDW or Epcot has been inventive in anything any way?

Disney is an entertainment company with a goal to find inventive ways to get money from customers but that is about it.

 

[Tim G]

Steve Jobs... YUK! :hurl:

Disney sticks with HP.... (at least for the next 4 years)

 

[hwdelien]

Apple is prevelant anywhere except in music devices. Never has been, just niche applications.

 

[Master Yoda]

Personally, I hope I never see anything Apple related in a Disney park. No brand represents smugness more than Apple.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kuJpAq-poo

 

[Tim G]

Personally, I hope I never see anything Apple related in a Disney park.

I couldn't have said it any better...

 

[Whimsy]

Steve Jobs is on the board.

Apple is an innovative/leading company.

What gives?

I've always wondered the same thing!

And holy crap are there a lot of Apple haters here. I for one wish Apple was at Disney. And I find non-Apple products boring, because ugly plastic-y computer boxes with a less than stellar operating system (to put it nicely) are sooo amazing.

 

[krankenstein]

Wow! Look at all the Apple haters!

*Grabs MacBook and runs away* :lol:

 

[TheBeatles]

I was thinking more along the lines of sponsoring an attraction and or having a post show.

Master Yoda that clip is exactly what an Apple store feels like. :ROFLOL:

 

[Tim G]

I was thinking more along the lines of sponsoring an attraction and or having a post show.

Steve Jobs is one of the biggest Disney shareholders on the board... *shivers*

So that wouldn't make any sense...

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

iI iAm iNot iFeeling iThe iMac iLove iHere.....


*iHuggles MacBook iAnd iLeaves*:lookaroun:lol:


Mac fan...guilty as charged!:king:

 

[tony&mistyw]

Apple and IMac rule and vista drules, down with gates:fork:

 

[GoofyDadKB]

I was thinking more along the lines of sponsoring an attraction and or having a post show.

Master Yoda that clip is exactly what an Apple store feels like. :ROFLOL:

They could never have a Mac based attraction. If it ever needed batteries or broke down they would have to pack up to whole attraction and send it back to Apple. :ROFLOL:

 

[Master Yoda]

They could never have a Mac based attraction. If it ever needed batteries or broke down they would have to pack up to whole attraction and send it back to Apple. :ROFLOL:

Not to mention less than 10% of the guests would use it.

Apple and IMac rule and vista drules, down with gates:fork:

You mean that guy that bailed out Apple and brought back your savior Steve Jobs just over a decade ago?

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E0DA143CF93BA3575BC0A961958260

I've always wondered the same thing!

And holy crap are there a lot of Apple haters here. I for one wish Apple was at Disney. And I find non-Apple products boring, because ugly plastic-y computer boxes with a less than stellar operating system (to put it nicely) are sooo amazing.

Yep it is impossible to buy an attractive PC and being able to do such crazy things like upgrade processors, video cards as well as overclocking is highly over rated.

 

[Monty]

I'd be thrilled if Apple provided WiFi throughout the parks. My iPhone costs way too much roaming on the 3G in the area. :shrug:

 

[GoofyDadKB]

Not to mention less than 10% of the guests would use it.

And that 10% would be walking around like the people in that South Park hybrid car episode.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/103216 :ROFLOL:

 

[Master Yoda]

And that 10% would be walking around like the people in that South Park hybrid car episode.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/103216 :ROFLOL:

SMUG ALERT!:lol:

 

[donsullivan]

I was thinking more along the lines of sponsoring an attraction and or having a post show.

Master Yoda that clip is exactly what an Apple store feels like. :ROFLOL:

Apple was actually one of the original partners in Innoventions when it first opened. They were in the location currently occupied by Storm Struck (I think that's what it's called). I was actually one of the final candidates at Apple to manage the presence for the company (didn't get it). After a couple of years they found it didn't do anything at all for sales and pulled out at the end of their initial agreement.

 

[EPCOT Explorer]

Apple was actually one of the original partners in Innoventions when it first opened. They were in the location currently occupied by Storm Struck (I think that's what it's called). I was actually one of the final candidates at Apple to manage the presence for the company (didn't get it). After a couple of years they found it didn't do anything at all for sales and pulled out at the end of their initial agreement.

That's right.


In all honesty, I REEEEALLY would have wanted to see a SSE sponsored by Apple.


I don't know why, but I would just think that they would have done the job SO much better than Siemens.

 

[IfWeCanDreamIt]

whatever your preference, both companies depend upon each other for success.(more so than you think!). Both help each other to advance one another's technology. Healthy competition!