Presby-Musings

This is a post that I ran across and couldn't resist using it with some commentary. 10 Things You Can Learn From the Apple Store ,  by  Guy Kawasaki . My friend, Carmine Gallo, has written a book called  The Apple Experience: Secrets to Building Insanely Great Customer Loyalty . The Apple Store is the most profitable retailer in America, generating an average of $5,600 per square foot and attracting more than 20,000 visitors a week. In the decade since Steve Jobs and former head of retail, Ron Johnson, decided to reimagine the retail experience, the Apple Store not only reimagined and reinvented retail, it blew up the model entirely and started from scratch. In his research for  The Apple Experience , Carmine discovered ten things that the Apple Store can teach any business in any industry to be more successful: 1. Stop selling stuff.  When Steve Jobs first started the Apple Store he did not ask the question, “How will we grow our market share from 5 ...

This week I am beginning a new sermon series entitled, iLife - living the life that you were meant to live. As some of you may have figured out by now, I am a bit of an Apple nut.  And by Apple I mean the corporation, not the fruit.  I have an iPod , an iPhone , an iPad and a MacBook Pro, laptop.  I would like to have an iMac for my home computer but my wife said enough was enough for the moment. Apple just announced the release of it's newest iPhone, which is already breaking pre-sale records.  More importantly, though, Apple released it's newest software update for all of it's devices in order to support the iCloud---an innovation that will change the way we listen to music, interact with one another, work and create...again. There's something about the names of all of these new Apple innovations that we tend to gloss over because we get so enamored with their coolness. They all start with "i" What Apple tells us through the names of their pro...

I just downloaded the Mac "App" Store on to my computer.  Now there is an "App" Store for my iPhone , my iPad AND my MacBook Pro. Yes, I am aware that's a lot of Apple products.  That's how I roll. " Apps " (short for "application") have become an integral part of our culture in a relatively short amount of time.  They are (essentially) software applications that you download on to your phone, tablet, and now your computer that are designed to entertain you, inform you, guide you and generally make your life better.  Apps put information, games, movies, music and merchandise at your fingertips.  You can have what you want, faster than you ever imagined you could get it.  Come to think about it, maybe Apps aren't as much part of our culture as they are a response to the demands of our culture.  For example... My "Around Me" app on my iPhone and iPad tells me where the closest restaurants, stores, gas stations, ...