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By: California

California — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:06:52 +0000

Interesting map. The county with the most store is Los Angeles with 10, followed by Orange, San Diego, and Santa Clara with 5. Riverside Co. seem to be the most populous county without an Apple store; its population is 2 million. The city with the most is Los Angeles with 6. There’s an empty spot around the Long Beach area.

By: Gary Allen

Gary Allen — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:28:04 +0000

Bradley — Thanks for spotting the map error. I misplaced one red dot, and have now moved it to the correct location for the Maine store.

By: Bradley Dichter

Bradley Dichter — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:27:20 +0000

I don’ see the Maine store on the map. Perhaps it needs an update.

By: johnny

johnny — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:22:51 +0000

Try a population cartogram map… see site

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By: tingly

tingly — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:30:04 +0000

They don’t have many obvious holes west of Texas anymore.

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By: Gary Allen

Gary Allen — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:51:07 +0000

Eric Lewis –

Probably not…..

By: Eric Lewis

Eric Lewis — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:39:20 +0000

Will you do one for Canada?

thanks

By: Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:46:41 +0000

This is exactly the kind of map we need to determine if Apple is placing stores where they are needed. Excuse all of the criticism Gary. Thank you.

By: Gary Allen

Gary Allen — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:31:26 +0000

Everyone — Thanks again for the corrections and updates. I took an older imprecise map of dots and overlaid it on the Census Bureau map, thereby creating some approximations in location. It’s really meant to be viewed by 4-feet!

tingly — OK, I fixed that “minutes” problem in the news item. And I appreciate your help in finally documenting the statements. You found more than I did.

Mark W. — Hawaii should be fixed.

Mark — I’ve tried to massage Virginia into shape.

Tom — I’ve moved the Phoenix region stores.

By: Mark Wilson

Mark Wilson — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:32:40 +0000

I know that it is just a dot on the map and nothing really changes in my life, BUT all of the Hawaii store dots are on the wrong island.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:14:16 +0000

Thanks for doing this – it really puts things in perspective.

The Virginia dots are not very accurate. You should only have 6 of them:

4 tightly bunched in the DC area; just extend the two you have there with two more to the west and just south of the MD border.

1 in the middle by itself (Richmond)

1 in the just west of the lower right corner of the state (Norfolk).

By: tingly

tingly — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:37:57 +0000

It still says minutes. Amy Barney at Apple PR might be willing to give a quote if you want the latest. I bet they haven’t updated it since 2004.

Here’s the progression of the stat just for fun.
July 2002 – 85m/15 miles by Thanksgiving 2002
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FNP/is_14_41/ai_90189069

May 2003 – 90m/15 miles
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/may/20retail.html

Feb.(?) 2004 – 90%/15 minutes

March 2004 – 100m/15 miles
http://www.ifoapplestore.com/stores/sf_opening/sf_press_talk.html
I think he said “well over 100m” in the audio file. Probably meant 100,003,000 as “well over”. :)

April 2004 – 100m/15 miles
http://www.ifoapplestore.com/stores/risd_johnson.html

Oct. 2004 – over half the US/15 minutes
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2004/oct/14retail.html
There’s a huge difference between 15 miles and 15 minutes, gotta be a goof unless they built about 500 stores between April and October.

July(?) 2007 – half the US/15 miles
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=332451
The original article isn’t available.

By: tom

tom — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:31:35 +0000

On the map showing the Arizona stores, all of the stores except the Southernmost one (in Tucson) are in the wrong county. They are all in Maricopa county (the blue one that kind of looks like a lowercase “r”. You have them in Yavapai. Maricopa county has a population of just over 4 million, while Yavapai has just over 200,000.