Comments on: In line for iPhone in Palo Alto http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/06/28/in-line-for-iphone-in-palo-alto/ Thought stream from SmugMug's CEO & Chief Geek Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:21:22 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9-rare hourly 1 By: cabbey http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/06/28/in-line-for-iphone-in-palo-alto/comment-page-1/#comment-53702 cabbey Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:46:53 +0000 http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/06/28/in-line-for-iphone-in-palo-alto/#comment-53702 yeah, and if you connect the two of them on the map and extend the line out the same distance on the other side, guess what it looks like you hit... apple's offices, or at least some of them. But still, for those of us out here on the "silicon prairie" that are looking at long drives to get to an apple store after the local 3rd party stores that sold Apple gear and was an apple authorized service center and all that closed (just before the apple stores started to multiply like crazy about 10 years ago) it's kinda sad to see an apple store 'wasted' like that. But then somehow I doubt the <a href="http://postbulletin.typepad.com/kiger/2007/06/iphone-out-in-r.html" rel="nofollow">local reaction</a> is anywhere near the reaction they saw in the Silly Con Valley. ;) yeah, and if you connect the two of them on the map and extend the line out the same distance on the other side, guess what it looks like you hit… apple’s offices, or at least some of them.

But still, for those of us out here on the “silicon prairie” that are looking at long drives to get to an apple store after the local 3rd party stores that sold Apple gear and was an apple authorized service center and all that closed (just before the apple stores started to multiply like crazy about 10 years ago) it’s kinda sad to see an apple store ‘wasted’ like that.

But then somehow I doubt the local reaction is anywhere near the reaction they saw in the Silly Con Valley. ;)

]]> By: livefrompaloalto http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/06/28/in-line-for-iphone-in-palo-alto/comment-page-1/#comment-53660 livefrompaloalto Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:24:33 +0000 http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/06/28/in-line-for-iphone-in-palo-alto/#comment-53660 @cabbey: Rumor has it there's a corner in Seattle with two Starbucks' facing each other. But getting back to Palo Alto, don't forget that Steve Jobs lives here (well, he owns a house there, I don't know how much time he actually spends in it), and on top of that, Palo Alto really can't be compared to any other place in the world (for better or worse), it's in a class all by itself. @cabbey: Rumor has it there’s a corner in Seattle with two Starbucks’ facing each other. But getting back to Palo Alto, don’t forget that Steve Jobs lives here (well, he owns a house there, I don’t know how much time he actually spends in it), and on top of that, Palo Alto really can’t be compared to any other place in the world (for better or worse), it’s in a class all by itself.

]]> By: cabbey http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/06/28/in-line-for-iphone-in-palo-alto/comment-page-1/#comment-53606 cabbey Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:49:15 +0000 http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/06/28/in-line-for-iphone-in-palo-alto/#comment-53606 Am I reading that map correctly, or are there two Apple stores within a dozen blocks of each other? *Starbucks* doesn't even allow that kind of density, and they're *everywhere*, just as Lewis Black. ;) (and to think, some of us have to drive hundreds of miles to get to an Apple store to play "Stump the Genius".) Am I reading that map correctly, or are there two Apple stores within a dozen blocks of each other? *Starbucks* doesn’t even allow that kind of density, and they’re *everywhere*, just as Lewis Black. ;)

(and to think, some of us have to drive hundreds of miles to get to an Apple store to play “Stump the Genius”.)

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