The face of Apple Stores to come

Cleve Nettles
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June 12, 2009
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Apple's new Scottsdale Arizona Store is a sign of things to come according to CNET. The new store has a much bigger Genius Bar than most its size.  It also has some new design elements:

When looking through the wall of windows on one side, you can see straight through to the other side of the store and out another wall of windows. If that wasn't enough to give you a feeling of space, the Scottsdale store also has a 75-foot long skylight.

Apple plans to open or update more than 100 stores this year incorporating some of this new thinking.

Comments (17)

Mark (not verified) | June 12, 2009 - 11:59am

Nice!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 12, 2009 - 12:10pm

The link is wrong

Derry Quinn (not verified) | June 12, 2009 - 12:25pm

Yeah, wtf is up with that? An ipcc file?

admin | June 12, 2009 - 12:51pm

oops fixed

JohnnyK | June 12, 2009 - 12:11pm

That looks freakin' sweet!

Vaganza (not verified) | June 12, 2009 - 12:27pm

They are renovating a lot of stores to increase the Genius Bar Size due to the high demand of people not knowing how to use their computer. Or because systems need repaired after the user dumped their Coke in their computer.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 12, 2009 - 12:33pm

Is that link to tethering settings also ment to induce a feeling of space? ;)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 12, 2009 - 1:23pm

The apple store at the Palisades Mall in west nyack newyork is getting a renovation too.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 12, 2009 - 2:04pm

That's the way ours looks in Greensboro, NC - Feb. '09.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 12, 2009 - 2:46pm

The grand opening is tonight at 6pm and I'll be there. It looks amazing from Scottsdale Road on the other side. I've been waiting for this for 5 years!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 12, 2009 - 4:30pm

Maybe they should focus in adding more stores? I hate how all the stores are only located in super populated, super important cities. My city is the biggest city for about 200 miles, with people from the surrounding cities coming here for shopping, work, etc., but the nearest apple store is about....300 miles?

What gives?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 12, 2009 - 7:40pm

I agree, I am in the 3rd biggest city in my state and the closest store is still over 200 miles away.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 12, 2009 - 8:53pm

This store is huge. I just got back from the opening. It's much bigger than it looks. There's a genius bar on both sides in the back. Pretty sweet. The opening was incredible. Must have been over 1500 people already...easily. There had to be over 200 people in their when I was in and didn't feel crowded at all. The ceiling is so tall and the skylight is pretty cool. Almost looks like there's no roof.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 12, 2009 - 11:25pm

Can't be very warm.......?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 13, 2009 - 2:35am

The store is amazing. Never seen anything like it. Apparently the floor has this weird cooling system. I took my shoe off to get an idea and noticed the floor was very cold. Around 7 o'clock the window drapes come down and the light from the floor, give it a nice look from outside (scottsdale road). Overall i see this store being a huge impact in this Area. But I'm gonna keep my one to one and genius bar service at the Biltmore Store. Hopefully it will take a chunk of the head count in that store down.

T2 (not verified) | June 13, 2009 - 1:56pm

We need way more apple stores in Indiana. We only have one (in Indianapolis). South Bend would be a good city to start with, and maybe Fort Wayne and Evansville.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | June 13, 2009 - 6:06pm

I think that if it weren't for the recession we'd be seeing the media pad already and judging by the remodels where I live they have some awesome things planned for the future especially with all those gaming patents I keep seeing. This Arizona store is a model for what will come.