That's funny, I just put mine back in the box this afternoon.

I used it for 3 years during college, then got a company issued Thinkpad T22 later replaced with several different Powerbook G4s.

They are not avlb at all till the end of Jann, thus you would not see them on display. Every Apple store I have been in once they announce something does not get the product right away. But when they do get one, they put them out right away for display.

~icorproadie

They're actually having a special event at the stores this Saturday (Jan 22) with focus on the Mac mini, iLife '05 and iWorks '05. I did call the store here today about iPod shuffles, and they said they did have a few for a short time and sold out the same day. More should be coming later this week, and they should be on hand for that event Saturday even though it's not a specifc focus for that event.

And I believe I had that number wrong by a factor of ten. 2000 iPod shuffles at the SF store, not 20k. :eek:

Did you pay the full price for your 20th Anniversary Scott? :D I haven't had mine out since I moved over a year ago. I need to find a place to put it and maybe rig up a way to have it play music from somewhere else on the network. It's too cool looking to sit in a box.

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I tried to buy a shuffle this weekend at the Apple store in SFO. No way. The displays were up, and all the salespeople had a shuffle around their necks, but none of them were for sale. One of the frazzled-looking sales associates explained that they only get one shipment or so a day, and the shuffles sell out immediately. No accessories for the shuffle (i.e. $29 armstrap) yet either -- she said it would be a few weeks before they got anything. Her voice full of dread, she informed me that the first mini-Macs are set to arrive this coming weekend.

Should have used the web in the first place. When I looked on Friday, the estimated shipping time for a 1GB shuffle was 1-2 weeks. When I placed my order Monday night, it was 3-4 weeks. At least there's free shipping.

No, it was presented to me as a gift from Apple Nederland.

It's never been unpacked and the box has never been opened. :D

It reminds me how much I miss the old Apple logo and the creativity they used to have, with things like the development team names molded on the inside of the machine.

Apple has certainly changed over the years, somehow I don't see them keeping the music division as part of the main corporation for much longer. Spinning off the ipod/itunes division is something I think would make sense, they have a lot more they can do in the home.

Many companies started taking out the easter egg credits and the like because their developers were being snatched as a result of their names being published. Competing companies would look up the names of the developers in th ephone book and make them offers that couldn't be refused during the dot com bubble (free, gourmet lunch, massages, car incentives, options, etc).

So giving the folks credit for their hard work became a liability. Sort of unfortunate, really.

Is there an Apple store at SFO (the airport, rather than the city of San Francisco)? Last night I recalled this post and decided to look for it in the airport during a long layover. It seems like an appropriate place for one, but having checked Apple's site, SFO's site, and Yahoo's yellow pages prior and not finding a mention, didn't expect to find one.

After walking all of the terminals (including international gates!, just tell them your going to a restaurant on the other side of security and they let you through) I didn't find it, but did I just miss it?

There is no Apple Store at the Airport. The only one in San Francisco is located in downtown San Francisco at the corner of Market and Stockton St.

I think ScottC just used SFO instead of typing San Francisco.

Correct, just call me lazy...

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:D

You can pop over there if you have a long enough layover though.
Take BART from SFO to the Powell Street Station in downtown SF, walk towards 4th Street, follow the Apple ads, take the last tunnel off to the left and go up the stairs and take another left. Worship the Steve, duck back into BART the way you came and get on a Millbrae/SFO bound train, mission accomplished!

You can do that, but you may discover they don't have any.

I was in San Francisco last weekend (on a ... uhhh ... mileage run) and they had stock neither of iPod Shuffles nor of Mac Minis. :td:

Buying them on line from the Apple store may be easier. I've had mine for over a week.

I went into the Apple Store at the nearby mall (Short Hills, baby!) last weekend.. no Shuffles. The "genius" didn't know when the next shipment will be, when the last shipment was, how many are in the shipment, why Apple does this lame short-supply thing all the time, etc...

Then I walk into the store this past Friday after work - voila! They had a number of the 512MB iPod Shuffles available. Bought 1 for my friend.

Turned out the shipment never made it that week.. but someone found a box of these in the backroom. Geniuses, indeed. :rolleyes: