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Well, this now gives us an Apple store much closer than B'ham or Nashville. There has only really been one Mac store here for years (not counting Best Buy or CC) and now we have two and they are only about 1 mile or so apart. I am sure with the way Apple is catching on there will be plenty of business for both stores. Bridge Street is a neat place and seems to b e a perfect setting for an Apple store.

This should go over well in Huntsville. Many don't realize that Huntsville is one of NASA's largest and busiest bases. That's where "Space Camp" is held as well.

The area has one of the largest populations of post-graduate degrees in the entire South, and larger than many places in the entire US. HUGE population of scientists, chemists, doctors, and the like. PHD city.

MW: rest. Let's just say it really stands out from the REST of the state of Alabama.

Why is a road in the south referred to as a "Pike."?

@MikeR

Interstate 90 is Know as the Massachusetts Turnpike in that state.

Florida, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania also use the naming convention.

Those roads all collect a toll.

And don't forget, Huntsville is a university town. There is the University of Alabama, Hunstville, Alabama A&M;University and Oakwood University. The last is my alma mater. Fascinating to see how Huntsville has grown since I lived there in the 1980s. Go APPLE!

"Why is a road in the south referred to as a "Pike."?"

Because 99.9% of the population of Huntsville is not from the south.

I've always loved going to Huntsville. It has one of the highest concentrations of scientists and engineers of US cities, and has the second largest research park in the US. And the US Space and Rocket center is awesome.

I used to spend a lot of time at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, and it was a major Mac installation -- literally hundreds, if not thousands, of them at the complex. They liked the fact that I carried a PowerBook. The local Apple retailer had a nice store and was very support-oriented. I hope the opening of a company store doesn't hurt the local guy.

Do people in Alabama use computers?

@ Huntsville
Thanks for the info.
I take my first comment back.

May 27, 08 - 11:16 am Comment from: Vague Nomenclature

Yes, hmmmmm. We do use computers! We also wear shoes and no longer run bootleg moonshine in our cars. We also now have indoor plumbing and, if you visit, we promise not to kick your sorry Yankee ass too hard.

Thanks for the outdated, stereotypical, unimaginative comment. You must have worked very hard to come up with that. Congrats!

I've lived in Alabama my whole life. Whenever I've gone up to the North for vacation or some other reason, I've always had to deal with people like you. And actually, it's really annoying to have people constantly making jokes about Alabama and other Southern states being backward hicktowns. I am 100% behind Vague Nomenclature's comment.

@Vague Nomenclatur
My apologies for my comments. I agree with you. That wasn't right, imaginative or appropriate. It was a stupid joke.

@Huntsville

Now Huntsville, before you start making snide remarks about the rest of the state, you should consider that the reason y'all are getting a store so quickly after the one in Birmingham opened is because the Birmingham store has been such a huge success. Mississippi might want to send us a little 'Thank you' for that as well.

The local Apple store is a little full of itself. They might be in for a rude awakening, especially since they aren't really that far away from the new Apple store.

May 27, 08 - 04:11 pm Comment from: TowerTone

What? Mississippi, and now Alabama? What's next, Arkansas?
(matter of fact http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=103817.54928.115946 )

May 27, 08 - 07:23 pm Comment from: Ampar

"What's next, Arkansas?"

Remember, there's Hope.

Alabama's had an Apple store for awhile. This isn't new to Alabama.

May 27, 08 - 10:50 pm Comment from: TowerTone

No, it's not new to Alabama, but the fact that Apple is opening more stores in the South, albeit thinly, is great!

Just wait Synthmeister, talk about full of themselves. When you got the new store and talk to the employees, they will be really full of themselves. I believe Apple store employees go to be trained to be rude.

Jun 01, 08 - 01:10 pm Comment from: Alphaman

Photos of the store construction and opening at http://picasaweb.google.com/dclhacker/AppleStore

Video (including "high quality") at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMV1UkxG7BU