Apple May Set Up Shop at The Edge After All
In addition to dropping the news that 30 potential buyers showed up for tours this weekend, Edge developer Jeff Levine revealed this teaser to the audience at the Brooklyn Real Estate Roundtable yesterday: An Apple store is still a real possibility for the ground-floor retail at the massive Kent Avenue development. “There’s no deal,” Levine…
In addition to dropping the news that 30 potential buyers showed up for tours this weekend, Edge developer Jeff Levine revealed this teaser to the audience at the Brooklyn Real Estate Roundtable yesterday: An Apple store is still a real possibility for the ground-floor retail at the massive Kent Avenue development. “There’s no deal,” Levine said, “But we are talking and they are interested.” He also mentioned that there was interest from some grocery stores.
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I wondered if alienware would change after Dell bought it. I don’t know exactly how they are being manufactured now since dell took over but I’ve had a friend open up my laptop to upgrade the memory and tell me it was a really well built machine. Mine was manufactured before dell bought them out. I still love the alienware but I need to upgrade some things- that was another reason I bought from them. It’s easily upgradable- including the graphics card. Sounds like you got a real lemon- those are so hard to diagnose because sometimes the problem is so obscure its impossible.
I have several friends who have dell- there always seems to be wierd problems.
Who is Falcon? Never heard of them. I have to say I love the new Acer. It was on sale from Tigerdirect and I checked out the components and its surprisingly good for the price so I’m happy.
I bought one right after Dell purchased them and husband got one when they were still alienware. His worked great for three years… mine had issues from the start. Like it didn’t start at all until I reinstalled everything. And after that, it never worked correctly. Would randomly crash and not boot up again… and then start working again mysteriously until I rebooted it, at which point it would freeze and the same thing would happen all over again. I reinstalled. I replaced ram and graphics card. Nada. It was also huge and heavy and I spent a lot of time with their customer support team with no resolution. Finally, after a year and the issues only getting worse, I just got a cheap Falcon NW. Much better.
denton- you’re the one confused. I said Gates worked for Jobs, not the other way around. There was even a movie about the beginnings of Apple and Gates’ involvement but how accurate it was I don’t know. But I never said Jobs worked for Gates. I know what DOS was- I’ve used it and I didn’t say DOS was a GUI- only that Gates had bought the initial program off some businessman who made it for his – I think the guy had an altaire (sp?). But Gates didn’t invent it- I knew that.
Mopar- not obnoxious at all- it was fascinating. I always had a feeling Jobs and Gates were 2 halves of the same brain and the interview I posted clarified a lot. I remember that for years people said Gates copied Jobs, but Mac was a leader. In the interview Jobs said that Gates was developing software whereas he had been creating the hardware. It’s a more detailed history than I can remember but anyone who sat at a table with Bill Gates in a Chili Cook-off at a techno fair has earned my undying admiration.
Heather- I loved the laptop but anyone who says that it is portable must be taking steroids- it is heavy! When e had to go into Manhattan ofr a program we were doing with kids from Chiatown I thought I would wind up in the hospital with a hernia. But tanother friend got a less powerful laptop and absolutely loves it after 2 years.I’m having some software problems from windows now but I’ve had it a couple of years so things happen. But I have to say, its been a real workhorse. What kind of problems are you having with the desktops? I had been thinking of getting one in the future but I think I’ll get another clone instead. Aliens are so expensive and now that dell bought them I wonder how much brandd stuff they will put it so even upgrading will be more expensive.
Bxgirl, do you like your alienware laptop? I had a lot of problems with their desktops…
bxgirl, you really have your computer history mixed up. mopar has it right. Jobs was never an MS employee.
MS bought DOS for 50k in 1981 cuz they needed an OS to run on the new Intel processor. I think they had around three employees at that time.
MS-DOS was a command line interface, not a GUI. Apple’s claim to fame was the first (I think) GUI interface on a consumer computer. Maybe DR GEM was first, but if so, Apple won. As pointed out, this was taken from work done at Xerox PARC research center, and elsewhere.
I’ll get back to you on Linux.
Whoa, awesome story mopar!
jwald — valid point. Brooklyn is so ripe for national retail development right now, which would be terrible if it turned all of Brooklyn into the big mall that Manhattan has become.
Perhaps the nature of the subway system, which funnels everyone into Manhattan, will prevent it.
Thanks, bxgrl! I was hoping my comment didn’t sound too obnoxious. Microsoft didn’t develop the graphical interface for the Mac, no. Definitely not. When Microsoft came out with its own GUI for the PC, Windows, they were widely accused of “copying” Apple. In fact, I think there was even a court case about it for years. Can’t remember. I have a terrible memory.
I do remember meeting Gates, though. We sat at the same table at the Chili Cook-off at Comdex (horrible industry trade show in Vegas, now defunct) and were introduced, then everyone left us alone sitting at this big table. We sat there and said absolutely nothing to each other. I thought “Why make chit chat with this person I obviously have nothing in common with?” I’m sure he thought the same thing. I guess we were alike in that respect.
He was still single and nerdy and Microsoft was very powerful although not yet much known to the general public.
Now, Jobs — he once walked out of an interview with me, but I cajoled him back into the room.
“You think in this economy, Apple is going to invest millions into a store in an area with this little foot traffic?”
I agree. A downtown location (like Atlantic Avenue) with all of the subway lines nearby makes much more sense. A Williambsurg location would only be convenient to those in Williamsburg, thus making the Soho location the most convenient for most people in Brooklyn. Either way, I don’t see Apple making the move to Brooklyn just yet.