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They had no problem putting an Apple store in Central Queens. Obviously the outer boroughs have big enough markets for Apple products. So yes the Bronx will eventually get an Apple store.
Queens is accessible to Brooklyn and Long Island. Queens is far from the Apple stores in Manhattan and Williamsburg. Queens has million dollar homes and condos.
Why put one in the Bronx when people can go to one of the numerous locations in Manhattan or go up north to Yonkers.
Bronx is not that far from either manhattan or Yonkers while central queens/Long Island are further from Manhattan.
Logistically Apple has nothing to gain by putting a store in the Bronx right now. The new Williamsburg store took how many years after the gentrification already hit? They know Brooklyn people will go to Manhattan, I'm sure they feel the same about Bronx Apple users.
Queens is accessible to Brooklyn and Long Island. Queens is far from the Apple stores in Manhattan and Williamsburg. Queens has million dollar homes and condos.
Why put one in the Bronx when people can go to one of the numerous locations in Manhattan or go up north to Yonkers.
Bronx is not that far from either manhattan or Yonkers while central queens/Long Island are further from Manhattan.
Logistically Apple has nothing to gain by putting a store in the Bronx right now. The new Williamsburg store took how many years after the gentrification already hit? They know Brooklyn people will go to Manhattan, I'm sure they feel the same about Bronx Apple users.
Central Queens is 15 minutes away from Midtown Manhattan on the E and F express. 15 minutes. I'm from Central Queens, and for years I used the station Roosevelt Avenue/Jackson Heights. Now if you get on at the local station, Woodhaven Blvd (that is where the Apple store is), it takes you maybe 20-25 minutes to get to Midtown.
Companies get tax credits for opening stores in busted up urban areas. So whenever Apple thinks the market in the Bronx warrants it, they'll come. Apple has gone from being an expensive brand to something that the average person who can afford a monthly phone contract can get. It's not exclusive.
Central Queens is 15 minutes away from Midtown Manhattan on the E and F express. 15 minutes. I'm from Central Queens, and for years I used the station Roosevelt Avenue/Jackson Heights. Now if you get on at the local station, Woodhaven Blvd (that is where the Apple store is), it takes you maybe 20-25 minutes to get to Midtown.
Companies get tax credits for opening stores in busted up urban areas. So whenever Apple thinks the market in the Bronx warrants it, they'll come. Apple has gone from being an expensive brand to something that the average person who can afford a monthly phone contract can get. It's not exclusive.
Yea but there are other parts of queens that are far from Manhattan as well and Long Island. I'm saying the location is accessible to those people where getting to Manhattan is a headache in traffic or by subway
Apple is still expensive they just created payment plans with telecom services, people don't realize they are still paying $700 to $1000 for a phone. Meanwhile Samsungs/androids are $600 and they have even cheaper models that require no money down.MacBooks are still more than their competitors, 1k for a MacBook or $300 for a dell? Apple is still a high end product in the technology world. That's why androids still have a market.
Apple has never opened up a store in a busted up area. It's always been an area that makes sense for their clientele and their business. Point is activist are pushing for an Apple store for what? What makes the Bronx special when other areas don't have one either. Maybe another 5-10 years it may happen. Anytime soon no way. I don't see the benefit for Apple to enter that market yet. I don't see poor people with new iPhones maybe old models or refurbished.
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I think you can put a apple store in the bronx and itll be a moderate success but Id put it in fordham road. centralized location, crime not as bad as 3rd ave, plus theyd get business from people in wash hts/inwood area.
3rd ave is too dangerous and too sketchy for a iphone store....even w good security customers would get robbed a few blocks away from the store......
Bay plaza is too far up. might as well goto westchester at that point.
but to behave as if people in the bronx dont already have iphones.....you guys are reaching. If anything a bronx store will capture all the bronx residents going into manhattan to buy a iphone....plus alot of the ghetto electronics stores sell them anyway not to mention the boosters who sell them.....
Some of you guys make it sound like Apple products are high end niche products. They're not. Many people own them.
Long Island has a few Apple stores. The Queens Center mall is for people who live in Queens. Long Islanders don't travel to Queens to shop in suburban-type malls.
I think you can put a apple store in the bronx and itll be a moderate success but Id put it in fordham road. centralized location, crime not as bad as 3rd ave, plus theyd get business from people in wash hts/inwood area.
3rd ave is too dangerous and too sketchy for a iphone store....even w good security customers would get robbed a few blocks away from the store......
Bay plaza is too far up. might as well goto westchester at that point.
but to behave as if people in the bronx dont already have iphones.....you guys are reaching. If anything a bronx store will capture all the bronx residents going into manhattan to buy a iphone....plus alot of the ghetto electronics stores sell them anyway not to mention the boosters who sell them.....
Bay Plaza shopping mall at the end of Pelham Parkway would be an excellent location in my opinion. Such store would be very convenient for folks who live in throgs neck, coop city, city Island. Country club, Morris Park, to even as far as parkchester. Also that part of the bronx even though not affluent, it is very middle class and stable. The nearest apple store for folks who live invin the East Bronx is either in Yonkers or in Queens central mall.
Some of you guys make it sound like Apple products are high end niche products. They're not. Many people own them.
Long Island has a few Apple stores. The Queens Center mall is for people who live in Queens. Long Islanders don't travel to Queens to shop in suburban-type malls.
Westchester also has its own stores.
Even though they are used by folks that are less affluent. Apple products give off an affluence vibe and thier products are primarily used by affluent folks as a mainstay. As of right now apple is a cellphone company. Most of Apple revenue is from the iPhone. IPhone has been out for nearly 10 years and is doing extremely well in the US market, while iPhone begins slow down, and drop in developed and emerging markets. Apple also needs to pull out of the desktop business. Apple has not produced a great desktop since the g5 which was a decade ago. Apple should just be a mobile computer company that specials iPhone, iPad and MacBooks. Apple sales are beginning to drop, and they did not have a hit product for a while now except iPhone.
I think you can put a apple store in the bronx and itll be a moderate success but Id put it in fordham road. centralized location, crime not as bad as 3rd ave, plus theyd get business from people in wash hts/inwood area.
3rd ave is too dangerous and too sketchy for a iphone store....even w good security customers would get robbed a few blocks away from the store......
Bay plaza is too far up. might as well goto westchester at that point.
but to behave as if people in the bronx dont already have iphones.....you guys are reaching. If anything a bronx store will capture all the bronx residents going into manhattan to buy a iphone....plus alot of the ghetto electronics stores sell them anyway not to mention the boosters who sell them.....
They do already have iPhones and they go to Manhattan for it, easily
But keep wishing on a dream. The officials look stupid advocating for an expensive store to enter a poor neighborhoods where the medium income is less than 20,000 a year. Finally Apple brand consist outside of their phones, like I said I can't see poor people buying MacBooks or $200 beats headphones. Apple to trying to expand outside of the iPhone and have been doing so due to competition in the phone market.
Officials should be fighting for much needed services that better the community or affordable stores, not Apple stores. It's ridiculous
Last edited by cheyenne2134; 10-28-2016 at 07:19 AM..
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