This is must read for all mac diehards. The figures statistics about the Apple stores are astounding!!!


http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/03/19/8402321/index.htm

Companies Full coverage Apple: America's best retailer The high-tech wundercompany has landed - not only on our street corners and in our malls, but also for the first time, on the top 10 of Fortune's Most Admired Companies. By Jerry Useem, Fortune contributing editor March 8 2007: 9:56 AM EST (Fortune Magazine) -- "Sorry Steve, Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work," BusinessWeek wrote with great certainty in 2001. "It's desperation time in Cupertino, Calif.," opined TheStreet.com. "I give [Apple] two years before they're turning out the lights on a very painful and expensive mistake," predicted retail consultant David Goldstein.