Marty Markowitz spent yesterday griping about the lack of an Apple store in his beloved Brooklyn. Worry all you want about the chainification of the tragically hip borough—The Observer certainly does—but there’s no stopping the un-gentrifiable Fulton Mall, as it is poised to pick up another national chain. And, no, it’s not a Shake Shack wannabe. Read More
Love it or hate it, Brooklyn is what it is. That’s probably why it does not have an Apple Store yet. Read More
It’s official, at least according to The New York Post: Apple will be opening a grand new store in Grand Central: 23,000 square feet at $800,000 a year for the first 10 years and then a lot more after that.
The long and winding road to this reportorial point started with The Observer in early February. Read More
Back in February, an Apple store in Grand Central was still a twinkle in Steve Jobs’ eye when The Observer took a bite out of the year’s juiciest rumor.
We had whipped out our iPhone and made more than a dozen calls in apparent futility. But, finally, a source close to the M.T.A. oh-so-quietly Read More
Apple’s plans to bring the world’s largest iStore to Grand Central always seemed to defy laws of taste, landmarks preservation and possibly even physics.
Apparently, Apple has reached the same conclusion, because an anonymous source close to the M.T.A. has confirmed that the company has backed out of plans to bring computers to commuters Read More
One of the big problems for folks developing mobile apps is the expensive and random process of promoting the finished product.
“Right now, the only way to get distribution for your application is to pay out the nose on an existing ad network, get “TechCrunched,” or to call in a favor at Apple (presuming you Read More
The sheets are still warm from the joint rollout of The Daily by Apple and Newscorp, but it sounds like the iPad only newspaper is already playing the field.
Peter Kafka writes this morning that The Daily will be headed to Android tablets as soon as this spring. This move was expected,”But I’m Read More
The Daily was News Corp.’s valentine to Apple, a premium tablet product that was unveiled this month by Rupert Murdoch, Jesse Angelo, and Apple’s Eddy Cue.
But when it came to the advertising that would be featured in The Daily, the logical choice for ad placement, Apple’s iAd, lost out to the New Read More
