October 14th: A slew of announcements from the Computer maker today...
Apple has unveiled a new store concept for its retail sector, the "mini-store". Apple's new stores are half the size of their big brothers and are designed for colleges, and airports for students and traveling shoppers. The mini stores have the complete line of iPods, some of desktops and top selling hardware and software. There is also room for a genius bar for questions and repairs. The new stores debut all around the country this Saturday.
Also, Apple announced the sale of 150 million songs on the iTunes Music Store. This is a great milestone for Apple because back in June they had sold 100 million. Apple also stated users are downloading four millino tracks a week.
Apple is also giving 300 loops to .Mac users as a promotion of its new Jam Packs for Garageband. Since none of us are .Mac users, we don't give a rat's behind.
One final thing: The media contact for Apple retail store's name is "Fletcher Cook". Myself and a business partner were discussing if Fletcher is a man or woman. We will call soon to figure it out, but who names their kid Fletcher anyway? We also were wondering if Fletcher Cook is related or wed to Tim Cook, a VP at Apple. Just a puzzling tidbit.
That's all for today, talk amongst yourselves.