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Apple rumored already scrapping Grand Central store plans
Mar 20th
Not long after the rumor that Apple was planning on opening an Apple Store at the Grand Central Terminal, a counter-rumor has emerged claiming that the plan has already been scrapped. Newmark Knight Frank broker Jeffrey Roseman tweeted, Lets see if Apple NOT coming to Grand Central gets as much press as it got, when the rumor started. The application for the store was only preliminary and has now reportedly fallen through.
The plans for the store would have made it the largest Apple retail outlet, outstripping even the Covent Garden store in London that spans 16,000 square feet. It More >
NPD: Netflix at 61% of digital video services, Apple just 4%
Mar 15th
Netflix now has a dominant share of the online video on demand business, according to new NPD data. The subscription streaming service has 61 percent of all the movies downloaded or streamed in January and February. Apple, despite iTunes’ reputation, was at just four percent and tied with both DirecTV and Time Warner Cable.
Comcast’s Xfinity service was actually higher at eight percent in spite of being limited to those on one cable provider.
Analysts at NPD believed the gap came from not just prices but the experience. Apple’s store has a much wider selection of up to date titles, but More >
Report: 5th Avenue Apple Store sold 7,200 iPad 2s on launch
Mar 15th
About 7,200 iPad 2 tablets changed hands at the 5th Avenue Apple Store alone on launch day, a tipster said Monday night. The tally suggests that the 1,109 initial buyers were joined by thousands more within the hours after the 5PM opening. SAI didn’t get buyer attach rates, though many are known to have bought two or more for friends and family.
The mix supports beliefs that Apple had very strong sales. Virtually all of Apple’s 236 American retail stores sold out of their initial stock and were accompanied by AT&T, Best Buy, Verizon, Target, Walmart, and reseller stores that may More >
West coast Apple Stores begin iPad 2 sales
Mar 12th
MacNN has received reports that a large lineup is forming outside the San Francisco Apple Store in the downtown district, swelling from an earlier estimate of 140 people (quoted by AppleInsider earlier today) now stretching over four city blocks in length. Sunny weather in the city has allowed customers wanting an iPad 2 to begin the traditional lineup later than their east coast counterparts, where it was still raining earlier in the day following a massive rainstorm Thursday night, with well over 500 people in line nonetheless. Other cities are also reporting long lineups.
Earlier today, the first iPad 2 sold at More >
Estimate: Apple moved 1.1 million MacBook Airs in the fall
Mar 7th
An estimate by Concord Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo this weekend suggested Apple may have had a blockbuster first quarter of sales for the redesigned MacBook Air. Asian supplier checks reportedly saw Apple ship about 1.1 million of the 11- and 13-inch systems, or 38 percent of Apple’s 2.9 million portable Macs. Kuo told AppleInsider he had previously estimated 700,000 systems shipping in a prediction just two days after they had been made public.
The number would slump to 700,000 in the winter quarter ending this month, Kuo understood, but wouldn’t hurt Apple’s sales figures. Despite the typical post-holiday lull, the researcher More >