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From: The Translucent Amoebae on 1 Jun 2010 16:13
On May 29, 7:10 am, Cat <0k...(a)accessforall.invalid> wrote:
> In article <htr1ed$ir...(a)news.albasani.net>, Shaun <sos...(a)double.net>
> wrote:
>
> > The Translucent Amoebae wrote:
> > > Spokane Washington is finally getting an Apple Store...
> > > Prior to this; The nearest one was about 300 miles away...!
>
> > ...and people elsewhere in the country, or overseas, care about this
> > because......
>
> Well, it's good info..."well over 100 million people in the United
> States live within 15 miles of an Apple store" (2004 numbers).
>
> http://www.ifoapplestore.com/stores/population_density.html
>
> SK.

i suspect that that number is somewhat skewered by the fact that most
people live in large cities, While there are many regions that are a
desert of Apple Stores or Even Service Centers...
Granted An Apple Store isn't a Pay & Save, But There should be Apple
Service Centers ( Authorized Technicians ) within 50 miles of 99.99%
of everyone in North America.
From: Barry Margolin on 1 Jun 2010 23:55
In article
<7edba009-de2f-4992-b603-f10c7a88169c(a)n20g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,
The Translucent Amoebae <transamoebae(a)seanet.com> wrote:

> On May 29, 7:10 am, Cat <0k...(a)accessforall.invalid> wrote:
> > In article <htr1ed$ir...(a)news.albasani.net>, Shaun <sos...(a)double.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > The Translucent Amoebae wrote:
> > > > Spokane Washington is finally getting an Apple Store...
> > > > Prior to this; The nearest one was about 300 miles away...!
> >
> > > ...and people elsewhere in the country, or overseas, care about this
> > > because......
> >
> > Well, it's good info..."well over 100 million people in the United
> > States live within 15 miles of an Apple store" (2004 numbers).
> >
> > http://www.ifoapplestore.com/stores/population_density.html
> >
> > SK.
>
> i suspect that that number is somewhat skewered by the fact that most
> people live in large cities, While there are many regions that are a
> desert of Apple Stores or Even Service Centers...
> Granted An Apple Store isn't a Pay & Save, But There should be Apple
> Service Centers ( Authorized Technicians ) within 50 miles of 99.99%
> of everyone in North America.

But authorized technicians don't have to work at Apple Stores.

As I mentioned in a previous post, Micro Center has an Apple department,
and they're also authorized technicians. We also have many independent
Apple technicians. But this is the Boston area, a very tech-friendly
area.

It would be very expensive for Apple to set up enough Apple Stores to
achieve your goal. They seem like very expensive stores to operate:
Genius Bars don't come cheap.

That's the downside of having very high standards, it's expensive to
maintain them.

--
Barry Margolin, barmar(a)alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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