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Apple Stores Apparently Popular Hangouts for Windows Users

John Paczkowski in Mobile on April 28, 2010 at 10:18 am PT

When Apple first revealed plans to open its own retail stores in 2001, the announcement was met with a caustic skepticism. “I give [Apple] two years before they’re turning out the lights on a very painful and expensive mistake,” Channel Marketing president David Goldstein told BusinessWeek at the time. The title of the article in which that quote appeared: “Sorry, Steve: Here’s Why Apple Stores Won’t Work.”