Comments on: You Can Lose Your Mind, When Tech Stores Are Two of a Kind: Welcome to the Appl…Oops, Microsoft Store (The Video Proof) http://kara.allthingsd.com/20091022/you-can-lose-your-mind-when-tech-stores-are-two-of-a-kind-welcome-to-the-appl-oop-microsoft-store-the-video/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:21:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Trying to be like the Cool Kids… Give Microsoft an E for Effort | Jedemi http://kara.allthingsd.com/20091022/you-can-lose-your-mind-when-tech-stores-are-two-of-a-kind-welcome-to-the-appl-oop-microsoft-store-the-video/#comment-18757 Trying to be like the Cool Kids… Give Microsoft an E for Effort | Jedemi Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:00:10 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=19814#comment-18757 [...] Store-like” retail outlet in Scottsdale last week?   Kara Swisher of All Things Digital had a good take on it, making a Patty Duke reference (”two of a kind”).  Her post compares a video [...] [...] Store-like” retail outlet in Scottsdale last week?   Kara Swisher of All Things Digital had a good take on it, making a Patty Duke reference (”two of a kind”).  Her post compares a video [...]

]]> By: Fred Hamranhansenhansen http://kara.allthingsd.com/20091022/you-can-lose-your-mind-when-tech-stores-are-two-of-a-kind-welcome-to-the-appl-oop-microsoft-store-the-video/#comment-18603 Fred Hamranhansenhansen Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:48:46 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=19814#comment-18603 I still can't believe this is real. It's amazing to see a company go to such lengths to avoid competing. The one store in the world that the Microsoft Store should not look like or remind us of is the Apple Store. Same way the one line that should never be in any Microsoft advertising is "I'm a PC". They're like a parrot! It's incredible. In 2001, Apple described their new stores as being a way for them to tell their own story. Now in 2009, Microsoft is using their new stores to tell the Apple story again. Why doesn't Microsoft want to tell its own story? Because then 80% of the store would just be boxes of Windows XP and the other 20% would be dedicated to the botnet and virus gallery. I still can’t believe this is real.

It’s amazing to see a company go to such lengths to avoid competing. The one store in the world that the Microsoft Store should not look like or remind us of is the Apple Store. Same way the one line that should never be in any Microsoft advertising is “I’m a PC”. They’re like a parrot! It’s incredible.

In 2001, Apple described their new stores as being a way for them to tell their own story. Now in 2009, Microsoft is using their new stores to tell the Apple story again. Why doesn’t Microsoft want to tell its own story? Because then 80% of the store would just be boxes of Windows XP and the other 20% would be dedicated to the botnet and virus gallery.

]]> By: Weekend Update 10.24.09–Drinking From the Fire Hose Edition [Digital Daily] | TECHNICK http://kara.allthingsd.com/20091022/you-can-lose-your-mind-when-tech-stores-are-two-of-a-kind-welcome-to-the-appl-oop-microsoft-store-the-video/#comment-18591 Weekend Update 10.24.09–Drinking From the Fire Hose Edition [Digital Daily] | TECHNICK Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:25:44 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=19814#comment-18591 [...] us. As if the world weren’t complicated enough, Microsoft (MSFT) opened its own Apple stor… er, Microsoft stores to challenge Apple’s (APPL) retail success. Kara went in like lion and out like Carl Icahn this [...] [...] us. As if the world weren’t complicated enough, Microsoft (MSFT) opened its own Apple stor… er, Microsoft stores to challenge Apple’s (APPL) retail success. Kara went in like lion and out like Carl Icahn this [...]

]]> By: Weekend Update 10.24.09–Drinking From the Fire Hose Edition | Drake Martinet | Digital Daily | AllThingsD http://kara.allthingsd.com/20091022/you-can-lose-your-mind-when-tech-stores-are-two-of-a-kind-welcome-to-the-appl-oop-microsoft-store-the-video/#comment-18574 Weekend Update 10.24.09–Drinking From the Fire Hose Edition | Drake Martinet | Digital Daily | AllThingsD Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:40:51 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=19814#comment-18574 [...] us. As if the world weren’t complicated enough, Microsoft (MSFT) opened its own Apple stor… er, Microsoft stores to challenge Apple’s (APPL) retail success. Kara went in like lion and out like Carl Icahn this [...] [...] us. As if the world weren’t complicated enough, Microsoft (MSFT) opened its own Apple stor… er, Microsoft stores to challenge Apple’s (APPL) retail success. Kara went in like lion and out like Carl Icahn this [...]

]]> By: Mike Lane http://kara.allthingsd.com/20091022/you-can-lose-your-mind-when-tech-stores-are-two-of-a-kind-welcome-to-the-appl-oop-microsoft-store-the-video/#comment-18449 Mike Lane Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:54:44 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=19814#comment-18449 It truly is sad. Pathetic actually. MSFT doesn't seem to have any original ideas of their own. And I can hear it now... "Come on in for our Blue Screen Special" - poseurs! It truly is sad. Pathetic actually. MSFT doesn’t seem to have any original ideas of their own. And I can hear it now… “Come on in for our Blue Screen Special” – poseurs!

]]> By: TechKive » Blog Archive » You Can Lose Your Mind, When Tech Stores Are Two of a Kind: Welcome to the Appl…Oops, Microsoft Store (The Video Proof) [BoomTown] http://kara.allthingsd.com/20091022/you-can-lose-your-mind-when-tech-stores-are-two-of-a-kind-welcome-to-the-appl-oop-microsoft-store-the-video/#comment-18430 TechKive » Blog Archive » You Can Lose Your Mind, When Tech Stores Are Two of a Kind: Welcome to the Appl…Oops, Microsoft Store (The Video Proof) [BoomTown] Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:28:54 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=19814#comment-18430 [...] the original post here: You Can Lose Your Mind, When Tech Stores Are Two of a Kind: Welcome to the Appl…Oops, Microsoft St... Share and [...] [...] the original post here: You Can Lose Your Mind, When Tech Stores Are Two of a Kind: Welcome to the Appl…Oops, Microsoft St… Share and [...]

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