Comments on: WaPo Retells the Apple Saga http://georgetownmetropolitan.com/2009/02/04/wapo-retells-the-apple-saga/ News, Information, and Events for the Georgetown Community Fri, 18 May 2012 19:01:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: pqresident http://georgetownmetropolitan.com/2009/02/04/wapo-retells-the-apple-saga/#comment-162 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:36:57 +0000 http://georgetownmetropolitan.com/?p=748#comment-162 maybe Apple was just seeing if they could get one by the architectural goalie. kudos to GM for some great on-the-ground reporting.

]]> By: SG http://georgetownmetropolitan.com/2009/02/04/wapo-retells-the-apple-saga/#comment-156 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:54:52 +0000 http://georgetownmetropolitan.com/?p=748#comment-156 I don’t live in Gtown, but I’ve noticed that there’s a weird disdain for Georgetown by media and others. So they’re quick (and eager) to assign blame not to everyone’s favorite hip corporation selling overpriced flashy products, but rather the “stuffy, controlling Georgetown powers that be.” Clearly in this instance, it is wrong. It’s sad that Georgetown is getting slandered in the press for something that they are so clearly in “the right” over. Apple has to play by the rules just like everyone else. I think if this was anyone but Apple (or a few other hip flavors of the week), it would be a non-issue. But everyone worships at the altar of Apple, so they can do no wrong…

]]> By: Andrew Hallock http://georgetownmetropolitan.com/2009/02/04/wapo-retells-the-apple-saga/#comment-155 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:39:46 +0000 http://georgetownmetropolitan.com/?p=748#comment-155 I think Apple’s strategy is pretty simple. Propose something nearly acceptable, get rejected propose two crazy outlandish proposals that will and did get flatly rejected and finally propose a design nearly identical to the first and get approved. Way to go Apple.

What baffles me is why they wanted to put a store in Georgetown to begin with. Sure there is more money to spend in GT than other neighborhoods but Apple fans already travel to get service, support and purchase Steve Jobs latest must have. Plopping an Apple store near a metro stop would have been a bit better for the rest of the city.

Perhaps after all the traffic to the new store metro will rethink the excessive stops that the 30s make through Georgetown and streamline the route further.

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