Apple’s new marketing slogan: Touch it.
Well, that’s what it should be. I’ve been paying attention to the past year’s worth of new stuff from Apple, but most of it was met with a reaction by me of ‘Oh, that’s kind of neat’ but nothing really more than that. We had to go to the Apple Store last night at the Mall of America, a place I am rarely that ambitious to visit more than once a year, but once inside I began to touch the Apple goodies. And once you touch’em, THEN you ‘get’ them.
The MacBook Air. A thin laptop? So what? But then you touch it. Oooooooh! That *is* nice!
iPod Nano. Oh, a colored metal iPod. Oh! NOW I get it! It’s smooth…and shiny…and oh so cute!
iPod Touch/iPhone? Big deal. Smart phone that will just…oh! Google Maps! THIS IS AWESOME!
So, yea, nothing new, but reminding myself how brilliant it was for Apple to finally open the stores for people to actually TOUCH things.
Unrelated to the Apple store…Camp Snoopy. The loss of Snoopy was a bit of a bummer, but it wasn’t like we were regular visitors anyways. But then it became ‘The Park at the Mall’ which is just plain lame. I mean, really lame.
Since we had the young’un with us, we had to walk into the park and was met with all sorts of giant cartoon characters. Apparently, the park is going to now be run by Nickelodeon. They’ve redone a bunch of rides and added this new SpongeBob Rollercoater way over in the corner. Looks fun. Final bonus? They revamped the Lego store. Given all that, I might have to make the Mall a twice-a-year event.
