Apple opens 50th retail store, Thanksgiving offer; more

Apple opens 50th retail store, Thanksgiving offer Apple has opened its 49th and 50th retail stores in the United Sates, with new store locations in Denver, Colorado and Emeryville, California. The Company now has stores in 24 states in the U.S., with a retail location within 15 miles of 85 million people, about one third of the U.S. population. Apple will also hold a special event Friday, Nov. 29 from 6:00 pm to Midnight with free stocking-stuffers, special values and a chance to win a new 15-inch iMac. More.

Status of "Switch" campaign A SunSpot article looks at the progress of Apple's $117 million "Switch" campaign. It profiles one switcher, Randy Cox: "Apple’s Switch ads had caught his attention, and as a programmer, he was intrigued by Mac OS X’s Unix underpinnings. Unix is the umbrella name for a family of computer operating systems renowned for their versatility and stability." More.

Tablet PC shootout In its on-going coverage of the new Tablet PC platform, eWeek has arranged a shoot-out of six top tablet contenders and asks "are any of them worth your time and money?" The author states "We don't think the first systems in this current generation of pen-enabled notebooks are going to cause a procurement stampede, but we do believe they'll make up a significant chunk of sales in the near future, despite an economy that causes people to eschew anything viewed as a luxury." More.

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