To: Cogito who wrote (58243 ) 10/31/2006 6:09:42 PM From: inaflash Read Replies (1) | Respond to Beyond CompUSA, there's no one that really pushes the Apple brand [besides] Apple ," Munster says. Apple's own specialist stores, he says, are "like converted Burger Kings. They've very eclectic, but no one goes in to them.">>I was confused about that statement as well. Perhaps he didn't mean Apple Stores but meant the "store within a store" as you would find at CompUSA. I have been in CompUSA many times when there was practically no one in the Apple section.<< applespecialist.com or apple.com (do an advanced search, By Solution: first item below All). At one point in time, there were quite a number of standalone Apple resellers, but volumes were insufficient to keep most of them going. I'd bet there are a handful that survived the last decade, though it would be difficult to objectively have criteria establish such a claim. Some of these folks sued (or are still suing?) Apple along the way for unfair competition. Other just made do with whatever they could sell, sometimes Apples, sometimes other things.en.wikipedia.org
