Farewell Apple Store Webcam

Yep, it's official. On May 28th, 2008 at 5:07 PM, we turned off the AppleStore webcam after 16 months of faithful service.

Gary of IFO and TSP are hoping to have some compiled time lapse footage of the destruction/construction put together in the near future - but there's a lot of video to go through, so don't hold your breath.

Thanks to Axis Communications for making a great camera! Thanks to the folks in Cupertino for sending us cookies! And thanks to all of the TSP folks for, well, just being you!

From left to right: Ben P. (Business Acct Mgr), Ted D. (Sales Guru and Digital Imaging Specialist), Paulo R. (In-House Technician), Graham R. (In-House Coorindator), Me (Prez), Alanna S-B (Exec Assistant), and Robert H (Finance) - And the 18 others that didn't make it to the impromptu photo session...

What's Next for the Webcam?

So what's next for the Apple Store webcam?

Not really sure. The construction is complete and 1000s of people are piling into the Boston Apple Store a day. Tech Superpowers had a great opening day as well, providing breakfast burritos from Boloco for the 25 people in line at the break of dawn, and pizza and soda from Bostones for the first 100. We handed out hundreds of TSP stickers and took photos and videos of the huge line.

Chances are, we'll simply sign off and leave Apple, ifo, Architosh, and all of our faithful viewers to go about their usual business. But if anyone out there has a good idea about what we can do with the webcam, we're all ears.

Today's the Big Day

Lots of stuff going on - and a lot of other sources covering the big day.

Here's some links to today's coverage, along with some pics.

http://www.ifoapplestore.com/stores/boylston_street/index.html
http://www.techsuperpowers.com/files/AppleStore/index.html
http://www.ifoapplestore.com/stores/boylston_street/photo5/index.html

In short: it's an amazing looking store. Congratulations Apple on opening the biggest store yet in Boston!

It's Official: Opening Day is Thursday

According to the Boston Globe - the opening day is Thursday, May 15th. Time is still unknown, but our guess is likely 6PM, like other Apple Store openings. Coincidentally, there's a little blurb about our little company in there too. ;)

That also happens to be an off-day for the Red Sox, so some people have been throwing around the theory that there might even be more of a tie-in with the Apple Store and the Red Sox beyond the Green Monster. I guess we'll just have to wait and see on that one.

For our part, we'd like to welcome the Apple Store and its 165 employees to Boston (it's the first one in Boston proper). Over the past year of coverage, we've met some great people, from the construction workers onsite to the folks in Cupertino in charge of the store's construction (who by the way have been using our webcam to make sure that things have been going according to plan).

We can wait for the opening on Thursday. It will mean a new chapter for our company (hopefully a good one), and even we have a couple things in store for opening day.