How the Apple Store trains their Workers by an Undercover Reporter

…training of Apple Store employees has been carefully designed. A series of podcasts I listened to and watched showed that selling was all about the approach. I shadowed other workers as they executed the company’s three-step sales process…[...] Thanks to CLIFFosakaJAPAN for providing this nice story on Digg.

Out Of A Coma, Into The Apple Store

Geoff Evila miraculously recovered from a four month coma after a near fatal car accident and realized he’d missed the launch of the iPhone……[...] Thanks to FrankieAngels for providing this nice story on Digg.

OK, I admit it, Leopard has more “Wow!” than Vista … in theory anyway

Leopard looks like it beats Vista in the “Wow!” department. Yes, you read that right, I said that Leopard looks like it beats Vista in the “Wow!” department.

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Worst iPhone Accessory Evar!

Seriously outrageous.

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Road to Mac OS X Leopard: Safari 3.0

Apple has made significant changes to Safari in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, introducing integration with Dashboard, smart drag and drop of tabbed windows, full text searching of your web history, and more. Here’s a look at the birth and maturity of the online web browser, as well as a look at what’s new in Safari 3.0.

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Apple to fire up Penryn-based Mac Pros

For the second time in as many years, Mac maker Apple Inc. is awaiting the official nod from chip supplier Intel Corp. before announcing a brawny update to its Mac Pro workstations aimed at media professionals. The new systems will represent the first architectural overhaul to the Mac Pro family since Apple introduced the Intel-based Power Mac succ

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Study: iPhone already nibbling away at Motorola’s dominance

Although it’s been on the shelf for just three months, the impact of iPhone is clearly being felt by rival phone manufacturers, according to a new study which claims that Apple’s cell phone market share is already on the rise at the expense of Motorola…

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Leopard GM Build, Apple Retail Sales Launch, Free T-Shirts

According to our sources, Apple did indeed settle on the last Gold Master candidate (Build 9A581) as the final retail version of Leopard. Despite some early claims that the “Gold Master” of Leopard had been leaked to the internet, all of these claimed leaks appear to be false. Apple has kept the distribution of Leopard Gold Master internal…

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Road to Mac OS X Leopard: Dashboard, Spotlight and the Desktop

It’s not just major applications that are getting updates in Mac OS X Leopard. Apple has updated and expanded the Desktop, Spotlight, and Dashboard, adding new features, graphical flourishes, and new performance enhancements that add functionality and polish to every app running on the system. Heres a look at these new features

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The OSX Spinning Wheel - Track How Much #$#&%^! Time It Has Wasted

It goes by many names: The Spinning Beachball of Death. The Marble of Doom. The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse. But our time of dread is over. The days of living in fear have come to an end. Today is the day we strike back…

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