Welcome to the Microsoft Store...(and other high fivin' openings)

[twistedAM]

Fanboi in da house!

They'll soon be marketing airtight lids for your computer.

 

[bluestreak]

I think you lot should all strip down to MS or Apple branded leotards and wrestle outside the KFC. Last man standing's OS of choice is undisputed winner and no more criticism allowed.

 

[sumimasen]

Mildly amusing, Windows 7 torrenting party.

 

[gnoriac]

WTF's happening there? Somebody actually bought a copy of Vista?

 

[editor]

So they've successfully brought this shit to the UK...

Hugs and high-fives
For the traditionally reserved Brits, California-flavoured Apple events are often a little awkward.

You could never accuse an Apple Store employee of being surly or pessimistic, but it has to be said that, in the build-up to the opening – with the team inside the glass-fronted store hugging, swaying around in a ring, and high-fiving – that there were a few raised eyebrows and muttered, puzzled accusations of oddly cult-like behaviour.

The whole morning was one of an odd mix of passion and confusion; most of the folks in the queue, by dint of their very presence, would probably say they were hardcore Apple fans, and they were rightly excited about the opening.

And yet for the rest of the world there in Brighton that day, the whole event was anathema. When people learned that the whoopin' and a-hollerin' that accompanied the doors opening marked nothing more than a store opening – and, worse, that the little boxes being given out to the first few through the doors contained not 'free iPhones' as the rumour was but mere T-shirts – we were treated to the full gamut of emotions from bafflement to scorn by way of pity.

Just before the doors opened – after being given their final pep talk by the Store Manager – all the T-shirted employees broke out of the store and did a lap of honour around the top level of Churchill Square, high-fiving all the folks in the queue.

And when the doors did open after an excited countdown, the staff, lined up inside the store on either side of the door, applauded wildly and high-fived the folks in the queue as they streamed into the shop. And for many this was no mere pilgrimage; within minutes of the store opening, people were walking out carrying iMacs, MacBooks and more.

http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/why-is-an-apple-store-opening-such-a-big-deal--644817

 

[ddraig]

the fuckers done it in apple store in Cardiff last week
knoberrs
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xawbss_cardiff-apple-store-opening_tech

 

[twistedAM]

haterz
Stick to your Ann Summers parties

 

[editor]

Saddest bunch of cunts I've seen in a long while.

 

[dlx1]

why they so happy and what about !

 

[sumimasen]

the fuckers done it in apple store in Cardiff last week
knoberrs
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xawbss_cardiff-apple-store-opening_tech

Haha to be fair you can see in the zoomed-out last shot that most of the queuers are cringingly avoiding eye contact with the oncoming hoards of high-fivers.

 

[Voley]

Christ this is dire.

 

[paolo]

I am pissing about mate... parody

For complete accuracy, you need to still be going on about it two years from now.

 

[pinkmonkey]

No film of it but when I worked for Shellys Shoes (about 10 years ago), the manager of the Leeds branch invented this 'Shellys Song' and the staff had to do the Shellys Warm Up before work, (a kind of bastardised aerobics routine and sing the song). Shelly loved it and the design team had to hide coz we found it hard to not laugh.

 

[editor]

For complete accuracy, you need to still be going on about it two years from now.

Two years? It's happening now, mate. In a shopping centre near you.

The high fiving fuckwits are taking over the world, I tell ye.

 

[elbows]

Oh dear, it was bad enough years ago when leopard came out and I queued at the Apple bullring store for an hour, the whooping & clapping was bad enough, high fiving or staff running round the wider area would have sent me over the edge. Rolling my eyes was my only defence at the time, and I made sure to bring up these antics and how much I hated them when I had to go back for a new laptop the other week. The employee I moaned to was new and had not been around for one of these whoopfests, and expressed sadness that they had not done one for the snow leopard launch.

Are Microsoft planning to open any stores in the UK?

Beyond this hideousness Im at least pleased both companies have managed to launch operating systems that dont suck this year.

 

[dlx1]

could this work with other shop or only hard/software we got a Mothercare opening soon.

WOOHOO

 

[elbows]

Wow its a bit weird seeing just how much MS have copied Apple in terms of store design, but tried to better it with all those screens. Weird watching them play catchup with the OS products too, not that Im complaining as they were so stale and going down the wrong path for so long that they needed some competition.

Returning to the retail hysteria, I wonder if US retail culture will ever really catch on here, granted we have become slightly americanised in some ways but I still think there are some major cultural differences which will prevent even 'have a nice day' from becoming the British retail way. But maybe Im wrong and the next generation dont have these barriers?

 

[editor]

An Apple Store just opened in the Louvre and it looks like the usual hideous PR hype didn't go quite to plan.

The cringeworthy, identically-dressed Apple Borgs were once again sent out to whoop their way around the queue while squealing like over excited schoolchildren, only to face the equivalent of a Gallic shrug as they attempted to high five shoppers, most of which steadfastly ignored the oncoming iPalms.

God bless the French.

 

[editor]

Wooaargh! The Microsoft staff at California have take this whole thing to a new, even more bizarre level. There's no high-fivin' jogs around the block for this lot: instead they embark on a lengthy - and downright weird - line dancing routine around the shop while most customers do their best to ignore this toe-curlingy bad outbreak of advanced fuckspuddery.

 

[gnoriac]

The future of marketing.

In a few years time even your local pound shop will be doing this sad shite.

 

[Pie 1]

Wooaargh! The Microsoft staff at California have take this whole thing to a new, even more bizarre level.

I am genuinely speachless