Posted on 06/29/2020 9:02:21 AM PDT by dayglored
"Re-imagined" strikes me as a nice, PC way of saying "re-purposed".
We just purchased an Apple iPad The buyer, a typical amazon dependent shopper since 10 years ago in HS, said forge ahead to the store masks and all. Not ordering such a thing to be stolen en route. No way.
They went from 135 to 200 in a blink. wow.
while the forward P/E ratios aren’t as insane as the late 90s ones (100), they are kinda high but analysts see msft making a whole lotta money the next few years.
And I don’t know if that court case against them regarding the 10 Billion defense contract, once resolved and if in their favor will make it go even higher.
A pity - I liked seeing the competition for the Apple Store, and I ended up buying a Surface tablet from the MS store at the local mall.
When I purchased my iMac several years ago, I carefully chose the pickup store, one in a very affluent Long Island town with a parking lot so I could roll right up to the store. No WAY was I picking it up in Manhattan and riding the subway with a large box proclaiming Apple iMac on it. I'd never have made it home with the computer, you can bet on it.
In big letters write WORK BOOTS on the box. nobody will ever bother you.
Huh? So I can’t take my busted Dell PC to the Microsoft store to get it fixed?
Who EVER did that?
Once again, Microsoft is primarily a SOFTWARE company.
Still, I not only loved the stores, I volunteered in several of them.
Sad to see them go.
Oh ya north shore. Yep Thats what Id have done.
I was scrambling is right out of this Texan affluent mall straight home scenic route.
No mail order thats for sure
They had stores?
A good description of SEPTA and similar inner city governmental agencies, but I digress.
I have been buying computers since 1989, and I don't think I have ever bought one from a store. My next one might be bought from a store, but that will be because my daughter works at a hole-in-the-wall computer repair shop that rebuilds business laptops and builds custom gamer desktops.
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> A good description of SEPTA and similar inner city > governmental agencies, but I digress.
LOL, I used to live in Philly. SEPTA, ah, what a memory...
Well, it’s empty and only one lone person going in, so I can see why they closed. I really had no idea they had stores.
Microsoft Azure is winning the defense cloud wars. It seems defense is putting everything into Azure verses Amazon’s AWS. I’ve been on many meeting this past year with zero talk about AWS and all efforts concentrated on Azure. Gov Cloud and Secured Gov Cloud are all Azure.
Have you *read* their EULA? They own your computer.
There is a MicroSoft store across from an Apple store in our local mall. Apple store is always busy, and the MS store rarely has even one customer.
Microsoft had so few stores I never knew they had any.
I wish some retailer would takeover these stores and sell all brands catering only to computer related products.
The stores would hold game nights on weekends for kids and teens. Almost certainly kids would coax their parents into buying equipment, peripherals, and accessories.
It was also nice to get to touch new lines of computer products, to absorb their look and feel.
There’s still Best Buy but it’s not the same.
Fry’s Electronics is weird. Their store aisles had become like ghost allies, lots of signs but no inventory. Kid you not. Maybe they’re gone by now. Haven’t checked on them in months. Last I asked one of their floor people where’s the inventory? He said it was on order. He later told me he was just hired. WTH?
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