Ten years ago.
The first store in the 300 store chain opened here in Tysons Corner, Virginia.
I remember walking in that first weekend pre-iPod and pre-iPad thinking “really – will this work?”
Wow – was I wrong! And now I go to the Apple Store in Tysons or in Georgetown or Bethesda with regularity.
Here is a demo of the store from May of 2001 with Steve Jobs. An amazing run!
“The more sophisticated the machine, the more barbaric the worker.”
I had one of those ”Aha moments” last week. I was at an airport and went through security. I had an iPod with Bose headphones; a cell phone; a Treo to do AOL email; a Kindle to read; and a Sony laptop with wireless modem. I had five chargers with me. When I checked into my hotel room, I ended up using three different sockets to recharge my devices. My briefcase weighs a ton. My doctor believes this is how I got tennis elbow from carrying my bag with my left arm.
I now have to check my three offices for voicemail messages; my Caps account for email; my AOL account for email; my Facebook account for email; I get messages on AIM and on Facebook; and I get messages on my cell phone.
What have we done to ourselves? 