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Apple Store Saw $300 Million In Purchases On New Year’s Day
A lot of people like to buy apps on New Year’s Day it seems. Apple has issued a press release which reveals that the App Store set a New Year’s Day sales record with more than $300 million in purchases. This goes to show that the App Store is kicking …
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Apple App Store Records $300 Million Purchases On New Year’s Day
Apple is one company whose products are fancied by a set of users loosely called “Apple Fanboys”. While some believe that the company’s products are unnecessarily overpriced, others think that its products are worth every penny spent on it.
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Apple’s App Store Generated Over $11 Billion In Revenue For the Company Last Year
Below is an analysis of Apple’s App Store revenue that can be gleaned from the past four press releases providing App Store data. Note that when I use words such as over or nearly they are from the press releases and when I use about or approximately …
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Apple’s App Store sales hit a record $300 million on New Year’s Day
Apple set a new record for App Store sales on New Year’s Day, thanks to a 25 percent increase from the same day a year earlier. Consumers spent $300 million on apps on Jan. 1, the most for a single day since the App Store launched in 2008. It marked the …
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Apple Store Chicago Winter Problem Caused By Software Issue, Not Design Flaw
Apple is blaming software issues, not a design flaw, for the winter problems encountered by the newly opened Apple Store in Chicago. Apple Store Chicago, with a carbon fiber roof inspired by the MacBook Pro, was thought to have overlooked the effects of …
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Apple App Store harvested your cash on New Year’s Day
It was a very happy New Year for Apple’s App Store. Owners of iOS devices made New Year’s Day the biggest sales day ever for the App Store, logging $300 million in purchases, the gadget giant said in a statement Thursday. That sales total is 25 percent …
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App Store kicks off 2018 with record-breaking holiday season
“We are thrilled with the reaction to the new App Store and to see so many customers discovering and enjoying new apps and games,” said Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “We want to thank all of the creative app …
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Apple just shared some staggering statistics about how well the App Store is doing
Apple announced new App Store statistics on Thursday. It revealed for the first time that over half a billion iPhone and iPad users visit the App Store every week. Apple has an annual tradition in early January of announcing how well its App Store is doing.
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Apple planning new Toronto store at Yonge & Bloor [u]
Apple appears to be working on a new street-level store in Toronto, Canada, based inside an 85-story condominium at the corner of Yonge and Bloor, not far from Queen’s Park and the Royal Ontario Museum. [Updated with corrected stats] The condominium, still …
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Flagship Apple Store Possibly Still Planned at Yonge-Bloor in Toronto
Canada’s most populous city may eventually be home to a flagship Apple retail store at one of its busiest intersections. A render of what The One will look like upon completion MacRumors has learned that Apple has been labeled in a planning document for …
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Apple blames smart roof software bug for blunder that caused Chicago store to dump snow and ice on surrounding areas
Last week, Apple’s flagship retail store in Chicago made headlines after it appeared to suffer at the hands of its own design flaws. After a build-up of ice and snow caused treacherous conditions around the Macbook-inspired roof with slanted edges, parts …
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Apple ‘re-programmed’ the roof on one of its stores because it had an ice problem
Apple built a gorgeous new Apple store on Chicago’s waterfront this year. It has beautiful glass walls and a roof that looks like an Apple laptop, and a press release published when the store opened in October called it one of “Apple’s most significant …
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California’s newest drug dealers: like an Apple Store, but with weed
The dispensary in West Hollywood looks more like an Apple Store than a place to score drugs. No tinted windows. No burglar bars. No beefy security guards. Instead, one of the half-dozen or so “bud-tenders” in identical company T-shirts scrolls on an iPad …
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Oops! Apple’s fancy new flagship store in Chicago beset with problems because the roof wasn’t designed to handle all the snow that falls in the ‘Windy City
First pointed out by Matt Maldre in his blog Spundart, the Chicago store garnered earlier attention for its roof which was designed in the shape of a Macbook, even emblazoning an Apple logo on top – just like on the actual devices. However, architects seem …
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Apple retail in 2017: A look at every store opened, closed, and remodeled
2017 was an incredibly active year for Apple retail, as the company’s refreshed store design continued its rollout across the world. As the calendar comes to a close, let’s take a look at every store location opened under the guidance of Apple’s …
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Apple Store designers appear to have forgotten about Chicago winters
But it seems this Apple Store may have truly been designed in California because it’s not built to handle Chicago’s snow and ice. While opening to much acclaim earlier this year, the design of Apple’s new flagship store in Chicago apparently did not …
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