I know it's not quite on topic, but I went to the
grandopening of the new Apple store out at Tyson's Corner, VA today
and it was just too cool. There was a guy there who had gotten in at
4am and was waiting for the opening but the mall guards kicked him
out when they did their rounds! The supervisor of it's construction
had seen him sitting there though so when the guy came back in later,
after the line had gotten fairly well along, he went ahead and put
the guy back in his original spot at the front. #2 guy drove all the
way down from New Jersey. Even if you're not a Mac person, if you
get the chance drop into one of the Apple retail stores. It's quite
a difference from CompUSA.
A bit more on-topic, it would seem that the stories about
Steve Jobs perfectionism haven't been exagerated. The same
supervisor, who I talked to prior to the opening as I was waiting,
said that Jobs had visited the site a few times during construction
and if something wasn't to his liking it was redone. It was said
that he even made them tear out a wall and redo it. He also said
that after they had trouble getting the 10 foot video screen working
with a push of a single button the way he wanted that Jobs told them
to put a picture of John Lennon and Yoko Ono over it. This picture
is seen in the various pre-opening photographs. It was still there
this morning but just before they opened they took it down and had
the presentations working ok.
Jeff
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Received on Sat May 19 2001 - 17:47:29 BST