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	<title>The Back Door</title>
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		<title>A Credit Card That&#8217;s Too Good</title>
		<link>http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/2010/09/17/a-credit-card-thats-too-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 06:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m old enough to remember when credit cards were actually &#8220;charga-plates,&#8221; actual pieces of metal with raised letters that you&#8217;d hand to a department store clerk as payment. He/she would then put the plate in a small machine and do that &#8220;shwack-schwak&#8221; thing to imprint your account information onto a carbon-type invoice. Later we went [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Privacy Is Much Misunderstood</title>
		<link>http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/2010/08/27/privacy-is-much-misunderstood/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/2010/08/27/privacy-is-much-misunderstood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t seen a buzzword rise to such stardom so quickly—privacy. It&#8217;s all because of the Internet, of course, and all the desktop and mobile applications that are being written to gather location, music that you play, how fast your drive, etc. Writer Evan Schuman, editor of StorefrontBacktalk, takes a whack at privacy after reading Apple&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Break Out Your Wallet, Hear Comes Bing</title>
		<link>http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/2010/08/25/break-out-your-wallet-hear-comes-bing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/2010/08/25/break-out-your-wallet-hear-comes-bing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/?p=704</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll hand it to Microsoft—they know where to go in order to promote their Bing brand. Apple&#8217;s app store. In an attempt to promote Bing, Microsoft paid iPhone app developers a sponsorship fee, in exchange for including the word &#8220;Bing&#8221; somewhere in the name of their app. Nick Wingfield for the Wall Street Journal writes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Genius Bar Pressure Is High</title>
		<link>http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/2010/08/24/the-genius-bar-pressure-is-high/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/2010/08/24/the-genius-bar-pressure-is-high/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes a reader will post a pertinent comment on an older story, and the information just stays hidden. That&#8217;s what just occurred with a comment posted about the changes made earlier this summer in Genius Bar operations. &#8220;Long Time Genius&#8221; said the Genius Bar workload has been increasing, and that Apple&#8217;s procedures changes have made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Is Buying Those iPhones?</title>
		<link>http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/2010/08/12/who-is-buying-those-iphones/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/2010/08/12/who-is-buying-those-iphones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smartphones]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/?p=699</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have now spent overnight at two international stores for grand openings, where there were two waiting lines—those who wanted to visit the store and those wanting to buy an iPhone 4 without a contract, that is, unlocked. And who was buying those iPhones in Paris and London? I talked to many people in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whoever Arrives First (Nearly) Wins</title>
		<link>http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/2010/08/11/whoever-arrives-first-nearly-wins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/2010/08/11/whoever-arrives-first-nearly-wins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[smartphones]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dell announced the availability of the Streak thingy on Friday. I say &#8220;thingy&#8221; because Dell and some reviewers are calling it a tablet, although by an objective industry standard, its 5-inch screen is too small for that designation. And it&#8217;s way too big for a smartphone—where on earth would you carry a device this large? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duct Tape? Hardly a Solution</title>
		<link>http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/2010/07/14/duct-tape-hardly-a-solution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/2010/07/14/duct-tape-hardly-a-solution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somehow, Apple&#8217;s lab and in-field testing failed to discover a glitch in the antenna sub-system of the iPhone 4 (perhaps it had something to do with that lost phone bar visit!). Is it a signal strength display problem or an actual radio frequency/antenna problem? Despite all the bloggers and a contradictory Consumer Reports test, it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traveling Easy, Posting Fast</title>
		<link>http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/2010/07/08/traveling-easy-posting-fast/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/2010/07/08/traveling-easy-posting-fast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe that it&#8217;s been over nine years since my first Apple store grand opening. Along the way I&#8217;ve been posting stories, photos and videos of the events—it&#8217;s amazing how that&#8217;s evolved. Seems like the stone ages back in 2001, when photos were 640&#215;480, on-line videos were the size of postage stamps, and it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New iPhone: Hmmmmm</title>
		<link>http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/2010/06/26/the-new-iphone-hmmmmm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/2010/06/26/the-new-iphone-hmmmmm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/?p=689</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I got up at 5 a.m. to travel to the Walnut Creek (N. Calif.) retail store for the iPhone 4 debut. I found that many of the people in line were Apple loyalists, but that wasn&#8217;t really why they were there. These people had been cut out of home delivery on the very same day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Evolution of Waiting Lines</title>
		<link>http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/2010/06/22/the-evolution-of-waiting-lines/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/2010/06/22/the-evolution-of-waiting-lines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple stores]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/?p=687</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My first waiting line was in 2001 for store #9. Back then, it was all enthusiasm, amazement and excitement. It&#8217;s pretty much been the same thing for each new store grand opening. Even the product launch waiting lines were driven by loyalty to Apple and its products, and not so much by publicity. But I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Log Files Show iPad Visits Increasing</title>
		<link>http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/2010/06/11/log-files-show-ipad-visits-increasing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/2010/06/11/log-files-show-ipad-visits-increasing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[smartphones]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I use Google Analytics to get a very thorough view of my Web site (I also use Urchin for more general statistics). For the latest 30 days, about 11% of my monthly visits are from one of 10 mobile devices tracked by Google, a figure that has been increasing the past three months. The iPhone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Full Steve Jobs Interview Posted—Wow!</title>
		<link>http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/2010/06/08/full-steve-jobs-interview-posted%e2%80%94wow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/2010/06/08/full-steve-jobs-interview-posted%e2%80%94wow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ifoapplestore.com/blog/?p=675</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The All Things Digital Web site has posted the full interview with Steve Jobs from their recent D8 conference. It&#8217;s a pretty amazing performance from someone who was once near death, both physically and career-wise, but who has returned to full strength. Jobs is so un-technical during the interview that it&#8217;s hard to realize that he [...]]]></description>
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