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I'm the one who added the clean-up tag. following is what I'd like to see done. if you can think of anything else that needs doing, please add it, and if you do anything on that list (or see that it has been done), please strike it out.

—Mac-arena the Bored Zo 10:09, 2005 Jun 19 (UTC)

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[edit] Clean-up to-do list

  • Search for all text in [brackets] and figure out the correct text. For example, this article doesn't know whether Lucky Bags have been discontinued or not.
No one knows if the Lucky Bags have been discontinued as there haven't been many Flagship openings since. Japan still has them over New Years because that is a Japanese tradition, but my point is no one knows. Not even Gary, webmaster of the website www.ifoapplestore.com and he knows more than anyone outside of Apple when it comes to Apple retail stores. --Hersch 02:48, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Grammar fixes and unification. (Done.)
  • Exhaustive list of stores, with opening dates.
Such a list (including comments, photos and sometimes even video) is readily available at ifoapplestore.com. If such a list should be included in WP, it should probably be placed in its own article (e.g. List of Apple Stores in the US). --FlorianB 28 June 2005 09:12 (UTC)
I second. — boredzo (talk) June 30, 2005 09:51 (UTC)
Did it. I have not struck through the list item above, because the list of Apple retail stores in the US still doesn't have opening dates. — boredzo (talk) June 30, 2005 10:23 (UTC)
What happened to the list? There's no page there now, and I don't see it as having been deleted, is this still something if interest? Frijole 19:07, 4 October 2006 (UTC) nevermind, found it: Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/List_of_Apple_retail_stores_in_the_US 17.232.49.173 20:03, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Design and History section still needs some rewriting, otherwise I think cleanup can be removed, improving the US list is a project for the corresponding site. --FlorianB 1 July 2005 04:01 (UTC)

I have now removed the clean-up tag. Did some more rewriting and restructuring of "Design and History", so it is really separated into Design & History.
I have also (temporarily) removed the sentence
Another cost cut: In April 2002, Apple deemed itself to have hired too many full-time sales associates 
for its earliest-debuting stores and laid many off.
because I couldn't find any sources confirming this. Can anybody provide a source please.
Also added the <br>-tag in the stores by country section again. Otherwise the layout with the two pics gets messed up! --FlorianB 1 July 2005 10:40 (UTC)
I added a blurb (with refs) about both the iPod Bar and cleaned up The Studio description a bit, also a note on the new store designs. Frijole 19:07, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

I've just removed the section called Apple Stores by Country. There really isn't any purpose to giving a store-by-store list of each new location in each country, and certainly no purpose to letting us know that one opened at 9 AM. Instead, the opening paragraph now describes how many locations there are and what countries they're in. The result, I think, is a cleaner article that has information that people will find notable. —Cleared as filed. 15:47, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Article title

Apple refers to its retail stores as "Apple Stores" (see http://www.apple.com/retail/). æ² ✆ 2006-08-04t18:22z

yeah, it would appear Apple uses the term "Apple Store" for both retail and online versions. So at least a disambiguation page would be warranted. I'll make that change now...as for whether the retail version should be considered primary or not, I don't know. --C S (Talk) 00:07, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Apple Store on Fifth Avenue, New York City

It is the first building with all supporting elements where made of glass. The glass elements were made from the german company BGT, who also has made the glass panels for the züricher glass pavilion. Source http://www.3sat.de/3sat.php?http://www.3sat.de/kulturzeit/tips/102565/index.html —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.217.30.253 (talk) 08:57, 8 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] List of Apple Store Locations

Should I go ahead and make this, I’ve been thinking about it and I wasn’t sure what anyone would think. Max Naylor 13:45, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Apparently not, it got deleted. Oh well. Max Naylor 10:18, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] first apple store?

McDonald's stores are, as I understand it, owned by individuals but have to confirm to the standards established by McDonald's. Were Apple Stores established before 2001 operated in this same manner? Here's an example of such an Apple store:

http://www.unex-t.com/applestore TerraFrost 01:42, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edit buttons

There are no edit buttons adjacent to each section appearing in the article, I've tried to fix this problem, but to no avail. Can someone else perhaps take a gander? Benwedge (talk) 20:26, 4 March 2008 (UTC)


[edit] first apple store?

I think you might have gotten the first apple store in continental Europe wrong because I personally went to an apple store in Zürich, Switzerland back in 2005 24.46.187.96 (talk) 19:11, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

You must've visited an Apple reseller, as to this day Switzerland still doesn't have an Apple Retail Store. Mvjs (talk) 21:03, 4 May 2008 (UTC)