{"id":6861,"date":"2017-05-17T00:23:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T00:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=6861"},"modified":"2017-05-17T00:23:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T00:23:11","slug":"linked-today-at-apple-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/05\/17\/linked-today-at-apple-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Today at Apple Launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3037,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/daringfireball.net\\\/linked\\\/2017\\\/05\\\/16\\\/today-at-apple&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250710084203\\\/https:\\\/\\\/daringfireball.net\\\/linked\\\/2017\\\/05\\\/16\\\/today-at-apple&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 02:24:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-28 04:37:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-22 11:45:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-28 15:54:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-01 03:43:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-12 04:31:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-22 16:10:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 09:56:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 18:45:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 18:45:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3038,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/34665102596&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251104030647\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/adamjackson\\\/34665102596&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-28 04:37:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-22 11:45:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-28 15:54:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-01 03:43:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-12 04:31:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-22 16:10:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 09:56:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 18:45:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-22 18:45:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2017\/05\/16\/today-at-apple\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via DF<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Educational class, photo walks, and more \u2014 from your local Apple Store. This, I think, is Angela Ahrendts\u2019s biggest project at Apple to date. This is not just a program for the major flagship stores \u2014 it\u2019s a program for every single Apple Store around the world. As I wrote a few weeks ago, Apple\u2019s retail stores are one of the most overlooked \/ underestimated advantages in all of technology.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t see how this is any different than Apple\u2019s Classes from 10 years ago that people didn\u2019t attend so Apple spent 10 years phasing out the theatre and redesigning the stores where instead of a theatre, the back of the main store is just one big genius bar and now they\u2019re bringing this back and it\u2019s a HUGE deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here is Saturday May 20th\u2019s \u201cToday @ Apple\u201d Schedule for my nearest Apple Store:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View &#039;Saturday May 20th, today at Apple, Mall of New Hampshire&#039; on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/34665102596\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"  title=\"Saturday May 20th, today at Apple, Mall of New Hampshire\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"Saturday May 20th, today at Apple, Mall of New Hampshire\"  width=\"539\"  height=\"640\"  border=\"0\"  class=\" pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4158\/34665102596_36562ffbaa_z.jpg\" ><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the suggested schedule for Apple Stores in 2005 (Saturday):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Getting Started On A Mac Workshop &#8211; 9:00am<\/li>\n<li>iWork Workshop &#8211; 12:00pm<\/li>\n<li>Mac OS X Workshop &#8211; 1:00pm<\/li>\n<li>.Mac Workshop &#8211; 2:00pm<\/li>\n<li>iTunes\/iPod &#8211; 3:00pm<\/li>\n<li>iPod and iTunes workshop &#8211; 6:00 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>12 years later and very little has changed except now most stores lack a theatre area. I don\u2019t consider this at all some grand and huge endeavor. I see it as bringing back events that were great but over the years suffered from lack of attendance. Maybe the new VP can get it right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via DF: Educational class, photo walks, and more \u2014 from your local Apple Store. This, I think, is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-05-17T00:23:16Z","apple_news_api_id":"5ba48542-920b-474b-bf8e-bab3f58175c0","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-05-17T00:23:18Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AW6SFQpILR0u_jrqz9YF1wA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1MF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2579,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/06\/15\/apple-store-employees-arent-allowed-to-say-unfortunately\/","url_meta":{"origin":6861,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 &#8220;Apple Store Employees Aren\u2019t Allowed to Say \u2018Unfortunately\u2019&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"June 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"WSJ: More people now visit Apple's 326 stores in a single quarter than the 60 million who visited\u00a0Walt Disney Co.'s four biggest theme parks last year, according to data from Apple and the Themed Entertainment Association. 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