Comments on: Report: Apple stores outperform Best Buy, Saks and Tiffany

By: Dave, Cleveland, Ohio

Dave, Cleveland, Ohio — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:49:57 +0000

This is an extremely flawed article. As the other comments have noted this is like comparing apples and oranges. Apple has more high end items and a much smaller footprint than the average Best Buy. You would be better served by looking at the square footage that the Apple products at a Best Buy store occupy, determine the sales of those items and then determine the "apple sales / apple square footage" and compare that to the apple stores. Probably still beat Best Buy but then I can't buy an HP computer or a 52 inch SONY plasma screen TV to watch the movies I download at Amazon.com from an Apple Store, now can I.

By: maddawg, DC

maddawg, DC — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:53:04 +0000

lol..the apple hypemachine does another fact bending trick….

their stores are what…1000 sq feet…best buy 60,000+

like it or not, the apple is rotting and only the most stuborn of retarded consumers will keep eating it…(yes, there are still those types out there)

again…shiny packaging will never gain more than the low single digit percentages of market share…no matter how small their stores are or how high their prices.

it is painfully obvious at this point to me, most if not all writers about apple, own apple…they have no choice but to spin stories of grandure out of shiny packages and call them technological wonders all in the biased name of propping up their stock.

figure the simple numbers…apple is WAAAAY overvalued even more than it was a year ago.

no company can keep that type of momentum without actually giving something to the industry…apple only copies tech and puts it in shiny packaging..

their P/E is astronomical coupled with low growth equals WAAAY overvalued company – the simplest of market minds knows that is a sell, sell, sell equation; compared to the de-factos such as ms, hp and dell….there is only one economic conclusion:

the apple is about to fall from the tree…once that happens, it can only rott unless they can actually contribute good, useful technology to the industry….. one thing that most must admit they haven't done….shiny does not mean inovative….sad but true.

By: Rick, California

Rick, California — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:00:36 +0000

Duh, fewer stores per people, and higher prices for their hardware kinda helps this dontcha think?

By: Terry McDonald, Charlotte, NC

Terry McDonald, Charlotte, NC — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:23:31 +0000

Those numbers are amazing to me. I think part of it is that since there are fewer Apple stores across the country the company can concentrate on uping the wow factor. Of course it doesn't hurt to have a product like the iPhone either.

By: Kontra

Kontra — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:24:14 +0000

I explored the design strategy of Apple stores in: Apple Store strategy: "Position, permission, probe" and also published an exclusive interview with Alex Frankel whose recently released book details the preparation given to Apple store employees for that unique experience in: Author interview: "Punching In" at the Apple Store